Over the week from complications more than 52 thousand people have died.
The weekly death rate from COVID-19 in the world has increased by 10%. So, in the period from November 29 to December 5, more than 52 thousand people died from complications of the coronavirus.
This was reported in the weekly epidemiological report of the World Health Organization published on Tuesday, December 7.
New weekly deaths are reported to have increased by 49% in Southeast Asia and 38% in the Americas, while mortality rates in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean increased by 13% and 8%, respectively.
< p> In the European and Western Pacific regions, the number of new deaths remained at the same level as last week.
Meanwhile, the weekly global incidence of coronavirus has stabilized. Thus, during this period, more than 4 million new patients were registered in the world, which is similar to the number reported last week.
The largest rate of new COVID-19 infections was registered in the United States (752 394 new cases; an increase 30%), Germany (396,429 new cases; similar to the previous week), the United Kingdom (310,696 new cases; similar to the previous week), France (283,500 new cases; an increase of 49%) and the Russian Federation (231,240 new cases). cases; similar to the previous week).
Recall that according to WHO, a new variant of COVID-19 “Omicron” as of Tuesday, December 7, was recorded in 57 countries.
