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The total number of new COVID-19 cases fell to 2.7 million last week, about 500,000 less than the previous week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in Geneva on Tuesday evening, according to the DPA according to Agerpres.
This 16% reduction extended the steady decline that began from a peak of approximately 5 million new cases in the first full week of January.
Last week, all regions of the world experienced a downward trend except the Middle East.
However, the 170,000 new patients in the Middle East have been outnumbered by 970,000 new cases in Europe and 1.3 million in the Americas.
Last week, the WHO recorded 81,000 deaths associated with the new coronavirus worldwide, a reduction of 10%.
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The UN health agency said the new variants of the virus, considered more contagious, had spread to other countries last week.
The variant first registered in the UK has now reached 94 countries.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in a report this week that the strain was already circulating in “many, if not all” countries in the region.
The so-called variant in South Africa is present in 46 countries, while the variant detected in Brazil and Japan has been identified in 21 countries.
In the most recent risk assessment for Europe, ECDC warned of the “increased transmissibility” observed for mutations B.1.1.7 (detected in the UK), B.1.351 (detected in South Africa) and P.1 (detected in Brazil), as well as the possibility that these variants “increase the severity of the disease” and decrease “totally or partially” the efficacy of the anti-COVID-19 vaccines already authorized.
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