Just under 3.3 million new coronavirus cases were reported worldwide in the past week, while the number of new fatalities surpassed 60,000 according to the latest COVID-19 weekly update from the World Health Organization (WHO)
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 24th March, 2021) Just under 3.3 million new coronavirus cases were reported worldwide in the past week, while the number of new fatalities surpassed 60,000 according to the latest COVID-19 weekly update from the World Health Organization (WHO).
"The European Region and the Region of the Americas continue to account for nearly 80% of all the cases and deaths. The only WHO region to report a decline in new deaths this week was the Western Pacific where deaths fell by nearly a third, compared to the previous week," the WHO said in its weekly bulletin, released on Tuesday.
In the past week (March 15-21), the WHO registered a total of 3,291,360 new coronavirus cases (up 8%) and 60,414 new deaths from COVID-19 (up 3%).
"The highest numbers of new cases were reported from Brazil (508 010 new cases; 3% increase), the United States of America (374 369 new cases; 19% decrease), India (240 082 new cases; 62% increase), France (204 840 new cases; 27% increase), and Italy (154 493 new cases; similar to previous week)," the WHO said.
Overall, as of March 21, the WHO registered a total of 122,536,880 coronavirus cases confirmed globally and 2,703,780 COVID-19-related deaths.
The WHO said that the British variant was detected in seven additional countries in the past week.
"As of 23 March, a total of 125 countries across all six WHO regions have reported cases of this variant," the WHO said.
Meanwhile, the South African variant was detected in 11 additional countries, with a total of 75 countries now having confirmed cases of this coronavirus strain, according to the WHO.
