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Covid: WHO, slight decrease in cases and deaths in the world, in Europe -23% and -18%

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Weekly incidence drops everywhere except in Southeast Asia, half infections in India and 30% global deaths

Milan, May 12 (beraking latest news Salute) – The weekly number of new cases of Covid-19 and of deaths globally is slightly decreasing. In the last 7 days, according to the WHO update, over 5.5 million infections and over 90,000 Covid deaths have been recorded. The incidence, however, warns the UN health agency, “remains at the highest levels since the beginning of the pandemic”. If Europe continues its descent and records a -23% in the number of new weekly cases (919,119) and -18% in the number of deaths (19,056), the Southeast Asia region continues with an uphill trajectory for 9 weeks and records a further 6% increase in infections last week.

Also in the last week surveyed (the data are updated to May 9) the incidence of deaths increased in Southeast Asia and in the western Pacific regions. And India continues to account for 95% of cases and 93% of deaths reported in the Southeast Asian region, and globally accounts for half of new infections and 30% of deaths recorded in the world. But, reports the WHO, “worrying trends have also been observed” in neighboring countries “.

The 5 countries with the highest number of new cases are India (2,738,957 new cases; 5% increase), Brazil (423,438 new cases; trend similar to the previous week), United States (334,784 new cases; decrease of 3%), Turkey (166,733 new cases; decrease of 35%) and Argentina (140,771 new cases; decrease of 8%).

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