United Nations: More than 21 million cases of new Coronavirus reported throughout the world last week, representing the number of weekly cases recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the World Health Organization.
The global health body also emphasizes that the Omicron variant becomes dominant due to significant growth excellence, higher levels of secondary attacks and reproductive numbers observed compared to Delta.
The Covid-19 weekly epidemiological update, released on Tuesday by WHO, said that globally, the new number of Covid-19 cases increased by 5 percent in the past week (17-23 January 2022).
More than 21 million new cases were reported for a week, representing the number of weekly cases recorded since the beginning of the pandemic.
Nearly 50,000 new deaths were also reported, he said.
As from January 23 this year, more than 346 million confirmed cases and more than 5.5 million deaths have been reported in total.
Updates say that the highest number of new cases reported from the United States (4,215,852 new cases; 24 percent decline), France (2,443,821 new cases, a 21 percent increase), India (2,115,100 new cases; 33 per percent increase) , Italy (1,231,741 new cases, similar to the previous week), and Brazil (824,579 new cases; 73 percent increase).
The highest number of new deaths reported from the United States (10,795 new deaths; 17 percent decrease), Russia (4792 new deaths; 7 percent decrease), India (3343 new deaths; a 47 percent increase), Italy (2440 new deaths; 24 percent increase) , and England (1888 new deaths; similar to the previous week’s number).
The update says that after identifying cases related to the journey from Omicron, many countries now report variant community transmissions.
But countries that have increased rapidly in the case of omicrons in November and December 2021 have or began to see a decrease in cases.
“The Omicron variant has a significant advantage of growth, a higher level of secondary attack and a number of reproduction observed higher than the Delta variant, and as a result, quickly replaces the last global.
It is estimated that this transmission profit is mostly because the ability of omicrons for immunity avoids after infection and / or vaccination, “he said.
However, compared to the Delta variant, Omicron is able to infect the network faster than the upper and non-lung respiratory tract, which can also assist the spread of this variant.
Updates say research conducted in India and South Africa have reported a higher proportion of symptomatic infections at the time of testing among individuals infected with Omicron compared to Delta infection.
The high occurrence of symptomatic presentations can result in lower detection rates, and thus increasingly can contribute to transmission.
The Omicron variant also has the ability to increase immunity to avoid compared to the previous variants, causing re-infections to those who have previous infections and for those who have been vaccinated.
In the Southeast Asia region, the number of new cases increased for the third week in a row, with more than 2.3 million new cases reported this week, a 36 percent increase compared to the previous week.
Six of ten countries in the region reported a greater increase of 20 percent in the number of new weekly cases, with the largest increase in reported from Bhutan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, he said.
The highest number of new cases reported from India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
The number of new deaths in the region increased by 44 percent compared to the previous week, with more than 3,700 newly reported deaths.
The highest death rate was reported from India (3343 new deaths, 47 percent increase), Thailand (107 new deaths, 7 percent increase), and Sri Lanka (88 new deaths, similar to the previous week’s number).
The first human case Covid-19, a disease caused by a new Coronavirus which caused Covid-19, then named SARS-COV-2 was first reported by officials in the city of Wuhan Central China in December 2019.
More than 21 million new Covid-19 cases were reported globally last week, the highest number of weekly cases recorded from the beginning of the pandemic: Who
