The United Nations: The number of weekly cases – 19 cases and death continues to decline globally, the World Health Organization said, noting that the two cases and events of death had diminished over the past two months in the Southeast Asia region.
Weekly Epidemiology Update Covid-19, released this week, said more than 3.3 million new cases and more than 55,000 new deaths were reported throughout the world during the week of September 20-26 2021, a 10 percent decline compared to the previous week for both cases and death .
Globally, the number of cases and Covid-19’s weekly death continues to decline, he said.
The biggest decline in the new weekly case was reported from the East Mediterranean region (17 percent), followed by the West Pacific region (15 percent), American region (14 percent), African region (12 percent) and the Southeast Asian region (10 percent); While the weekly case in the European region is similar to the previous week.
The number of new weekly deaths reportedly showed a decline of more than 15 percent for all regions except for the territory of Europe and the African region.
The biggest decline in weekly death was reported from the West Pacific region, with a 24 percent decline compared to the previous week.
Globally, the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases confirmed now stands above 231 million and the number of cumulative deaths of more than 4.7 million.
Worldwide, the cases of Alfa variants have been reported in 193 countries, regions or regions, while 142 countries have reported cases of beta and 96 countries have reported cases of gamma variants.
Delta variants have been reported in 187 countries, in all six WHO regions on September 28.
The WHO update said that the highest number of new cases reported from the US (765,827 new cases; 31 percent decrease), Brazil (247,397 new cases; an increase of 135 percent due to changes in reporting), England (230,494 new cases; 14 percent increase), India ( 204,582 new cases; similar to the previous week), and Turkey (192,778 new cases; similar to the previous week), while the highest number of deaths came from the US (14,842 new deaths, a 17 percent decline), Russia (5,469 new deaths, similar to weeks Previously), Mexico (3,689 new deaths, a 13 percent increase.), Brazil (3,727 new deaths, 10 percent increase), and Iran (2,967 new deaths, 23 percent decreases) each.
In the Southeast Asia region, both cases and death events have declined over the past two months.
In the past week, more than 344,000 new cases and 5,200 new deaths were reported, reduced by 10 percent and 20 percent compared to the previous week.
This week, the highest number of new cases reported from India (204,582 new cases; 14.8 new cases per 100,000; similar to last week’s numbers), Thailand (85,143 new cases; 122.0 new cases per 100,000; 10 percent decline), and Indonesia ( 17,250 new cases; 6.3 new cases per 100,000; 26 percent decline).
Seven of the 10 countries in the Southeast Asia region reported a decline in weekly death, with a well-known decline reported from Nepal (38 percent) and Indonesia (by 37 percent).
Bhutan did not report new deaths.
The highest number of deaths was reported from India (2,080 new deaths), Indonesia (999 new deaths) and Thailand (905 new deaths), he said.