The number of new Covid-19 cases worldwide has reached a record high of 212,326 cases in the past 24 hours, according to a status report from the World Health Organization.
The report says there have been more than 10.9 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 worldwide, with 212,326 new cases in the past 24 hours. There have been at least 523,011 deaths worldwide since the pandemic began, with 5,134 of those deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
The virus, which first emerged in China, has spread worldwide with the epicenter moving from East Asia to Europe and then to America. The largest increase reported on Saturday occurred in North and South America, which saw 129,772 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total in the region to almost 5.58 million.
Southeast Asia had 27,947 new cases with India and Bangladesh seeing the largest increases in the region. The Eastern Mediterranean region saw 20,043 new cases with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran as the most affected. Europe saw 19,694 new cases with the largest increase in Russia. Africa had 12,619 cases that were overwhelmingly reported in South Africa, and the western Pacific, which includes China, had 2,251 new cases.
Europe has a total of 2.75 million cases, the eastern Mediterranean has 1.13 million, Southeast Asia has almost 900,000, Africa has more than 342,000, and the western Pacific has almost 222,000 cases.
The WHO noted that factors such as case detection, definitions, testing strategies, reporting and delay times differ between countries, territories and areas. A senior agency official warned this week that some countries may have to reintroduce blocking measures while struggling to contain the virus.
“Some countries that have succeeded in suppressing the transmission that is now opening may have a setback, they may have to implement interventions again, they may have to implement these so-called blocks again,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO director. emerging diseases unit, at a press conference on Wednesday in Geneva. “We hope not. We hope we don’t have to go into a general blockade again. So it’s not too late to act fast.”
In mid-June, the WHO said that the coronavirus cases that reached record levels worldwide were not just the result of more tests in other countries. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO emergency program, said June 22 that hospital admissions and deaths were also increasing.
In the United States specifically, there have been 2.72 million cases of Covid-19 with 53,213 cases reported in the past 24 hours, according to WHO data. According to the WHO report on Saturday, 128,481 people had died in the United States from Covid-19 with 623 deaths reported in the past 24 hours.
While confirmed cases are on the rise in the US, the virus appeared to be killing fewer people than it infects, The New York Times reported Friday, which experts say could be due to testing, treatment and “a change. who is the virus infecting. ” “But due to a delay in the way deaths are attributed, there may still be an increase in Covid-19 deaths.
Brazil was another country in the Americas that led new cases; The country has seen almost 1.5 million confirmed cases, with 48,105 new cases in the past 24 hours. The country has had 61,884 deaths from the virus, with 1,252 reported in the last 24 hours.
India also experienced a large increase in new cases, with 22,771 new confirmed cases, for a total of 648,315 cases in the country. The country has had 18,655 deaths, with 442 in the past 24 hours.
Note: Data from the World Health Organization differs slightly from statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University, which is also frequently used to track the global pandemic.
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