The
Covid-19 pandemic continued its resurgence this week, in particular
in Asia and Europe, but the number of related global deaths plunged by a
fifth.
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Here is the state of play based on AFP's database:
- 12 percent rise
in cases -
The average number of global daily cases increased over the week by 12
percent to 1.8 million, after taking a new turn for the worse the week before,
according to an AFP tally to Thursday.
Western European countries are seeing a rebound, including France, where the
number of cases increased 35 percent, while Italy and Britain were up 42
percent each.
In Asia, several countries beat their own records, including South Korea,
Vietnam and Thailand.
The confirmed cases only reflect a fraction of the actual number of
infections, with varying counting practices and levels of testing in different
countries.
- Regional
differences -
The pandemic's upturn is being driven by Oceania, where the number of new
cases increased by 86 percent compared to the previous week. They also
increased 23 percent in Asia and seven percent in Europe.
However, the situation continues to greatly improve in Africa, where the
numbers dropped 56 percent.
In the Middle East, cases declined by 26 percent, while the Latin
America-Caribbean zone saw a fifth fewer cases and the United States-Canada
zone registered a 12 percent drop.
- Main spikes -
Laos recorded the biggest new case increase with 151 percent over the week,
followed by Ireland with 52 percent more, South Korea 47 percent, and Finland
44 percent.
- South Korea has
most cases -
By head of population South Korea recorded the biggest number of new cases
this week, with 5,288 per 100,000 people.
Austria followed with 3,484, New Zealand (2,706), Cyprus (2,613) and the
Netherlands (2,504).
- Deaths continue
to decline -
The number of Covid-linked deaths continued to decline, shrinking 20 percent
to an average of 5,401 a day.
The decline was reflected in all regions of the world.
Hong Kong reported by far the highest death rate in proportion to
population with 26.49 per 100,000 inhabitants.
It was followed at a distance by Latvia with 4.61, Denmark 4.33, Slovakia
4.08 and Chile 3.76.
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