Global cases of Covid19 rose 1% last week, the first increase since March, although deaths continue to fall, falling by 21% in the seven days analyzed, suggests epidemiological information released this Thursday by the World Health Organization published.
Between May 19th and 15th, confirms 3.6 million cases of Covid19 and 9,800 deaths worldwidebelow 10,000 weekly deaths for the first time since March 2020.
The global surge in contagion was driven by a 20 percent jump in positive cases in Europe (1.2 million last week) and a 19 percent surge in South Asia (71,000).
AsiaPacific was again the region with the most weekly cases, 1.3 million, despite falling 14% in the previous seven days, while the Americas, with 912,000 infections, was down 26%.
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The regions with the highest number of deaths were Europe (3,951, a 29% decrease) and the Americas (3,583, a 16% decrease).
The countries that reported the most cases last week were the United States (605,000, up 33%), China (389,000, almost double) and Germany (376,000, down 20%).
In the total accumulated over nearly two and a half years of the pandemic, there were 520 million confirmed cases and 6.2 million deaths, although the real numbers are higher due to the high levels of contagion and unreported cases.