Global weekly cases of COVID-19 fall by up to 7%, but European countries increase by up to 2%

Oct. 9 (UPI) – Coronavirus cases are surging in some European countries, adding Germany, Austria, Italy and France, by at least 24% over the past week, even though global infections fell by 7% and deaths by 10% among the lowest since the pandemic began in March 2020.

Europe was the only continent to record a seven-day increase in cases, 2%, deaths fell 0. 3%.

International daily deaths fell to 426 on Sunday, the lowest level since 424 on March 14, after 752 on Saturday and 961 last Sunday. On June 19 it reached 972, the last time less than 1,000.

Some countries report information on weekends. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionU. S. officials report information on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays with plans to transfer to weekly updates on Oct. 20.

Records were 3,846,048 cases on Jan. 21, at the height of the Omison subvariant, and 16,849 deaths on Jan. 21, 2021, when the Delta subvariant peaked.

Germany recorded the number of weekly cases, 562,403, an increase of 30%, a week after a 60% increase, and the fifth number of deaths with 471, but a minimum of 22%.

France had the highest number of cases at the time, 385,820, up 24%. In terms of deaths, the United States ranks first with 2,023, down 22%, and about 1,300 ahead of Russia’s current position with 725, an increase of 2%.

Cases in Europe reached a cumulative global peak of 229,590,892. The decreases were North America 28% for 116,836,556, Africa 26% for 12,654,175, Oceania 24% for 12,451,454, South America 15% for 64,199,269.

South America is the one that gains in deaths, 14% to 1,330,848. The declines were Oceania 49% to 12,172, North America 21% to 1,543,649, Asia 15% to 1,482,302, Africa 5% to 257,672, Europe with a world cap of 1,925,329.

The United States leads with 1,087,880 deaths and 98,555,072 infections. The country also holds the world record for cases with 906,886 as of January 7. Brazil is the moment in deaths with 686,919, adding 15 on Sunday, and fourth in cases with 34,764,661, adding 1,801 on Sunday.

India is the moment in cases with 44,612,013, adding 2,756 on Sunday and third in deaths with 528,799, adding 21 on Sunday, with one death reported in April and 0 the last time on March 24, 2020.

India holds the record for deaths at 4,529 on May 18, 2021, with no regional adjustments.

The cases during the last week with more than 25 000 in descending order were Taiwan 10% to number 3 322 572, Italy 30 % to number 4 280 947, Austria 24 % to number 9 96 654, Singapore 69 % to number 12 36 985 ,

Among the nations that reported more than a hundred deaths with increases last week: Brazil 27% in No. 3591, Taiwan 19% at No. 7364, Italy 32% at No. 8364, France 29% at No. 9293, Spain 56% at No. 10,268, Philippines 12% at No. 11,249, Poland 11% at No. 13,158, Peru 42% at No. 15,149, Czech Republic 18% at No. 19,104.

Also at the sensitive maximum 10 for the maximum of deaths still in decline: Japan 19% at No. 4,510 and Great Britain 9% at No. 6,409.

In the 10 most outstanding deaths, Mexico is 5th with 330,202 and without knowledge on the weekend, Peru 6th with 216,727 and 27 on Saturday, Great Britain 7th with 190,888 without knowledge on the weekend, Italy 8th with 177,519 adding 41 on Sunday, Indonesia 9th with 158,205 adding seven on Sunday and France tenth with 155,422 unchanged on the weekend.

In the 10 most sensitive cases, France is 3rd with 35,866,253 adding 42,626 on Sunday, Germany is 5th with 33,948,632, Great Britain 7th with 23,735,273, Italy 8th with 22,815,736 adding 34,443 on Sunday, Japan 9th with 21,567,543 adding 22,796 on Sunday, Russia 9th with 22,796 on Sunday 33,025 on Sunday, Russia 10 with 33,025 on Sunday.

Despite a dramatic drop in testing, WHO knowledge released Wednesday showed cases in the European Union reached 1. 5 million last week, up 8 from last week.

Hospitalizations have also increased, at just 32% per week in Italy, with a 21% increase in ICU admissions, according to data compiled by independent clinic Gimbe.

In Great Britain, which is part of the European Union, they have more than 45% in one week.

“There will have to be some complacency in the fact that life has returned to normal, at least as far as Covid is concerned and other people now have other monetary and war-related concerns,” said Adam Finn, president of a specialist organisation that advises the WHO on vaccines and preventable diseases in Europe. he told CNN.

And Penny Ward, a visiting professor of pharmaceutical medicine at King’s College London, also told CNN: “It’s possible that a large proportion of the population has also had a covid episode in recent months. “

Last week, British officials warned that a new flu influx and the resurgence of covid-19 placed an additional burden on the National Health Service.

Experts warn that this scenario may affect the United States.

But the scenario is likely to be different in Europe than in the United States because of the other degrees of immunity and susceptibility to new subvariants to which they have not yet been exposed.

“If it’s primarily behavioral and climate changes, we could avoid similar increases if there is widespread adoption of the bivalent vaccine,” said Justin Lessler, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina who is helping run the COVID-19 Center’s situation model. he told NPR. ” If it is immune evasion through variants with a convergent evolution, the prospects for the United States would possibly be more worrisome. “

Without new restrictions, adding social distancing and masks, other people stay home if they don’t feel well, Dr. Brown said. Susan Hopkins, lead medical adviser to the UK Health Security Agency, in a report via The Guardian.

These numbers are expanding despite vaccines adapted to the Omicron variant that will be available from September for weakened and elderly immune systems.

Since Sept. 5, about 40 million doses of vaccines produced through Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have been delivered to member states, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. But in recent years between 1 million and 1. 4 million have been administered. month.

In total, more than 12. 7 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered worldwide, a gain of less than a hundred million in one week, with a global population of 7. 9 billion. Mainland China leads with 3. 5 billion doses administered and a vaccine for singles rate of 92. 4% among the 1. 5 billion other people in the world. India is now with 2. 2 billion among the 1. 4 billion other people and a rate of 74. 4%.

Japan, which has an exclusive vaccination rate of 82. 8% among all residents, plans to lift the ban on individual tourist visits and remove the limit of 50,000 arrivals. These were the most powerful restrictions among the Group of Seven countries.

Japan has 362 deaths per million, 145th in the country, with the global at 841. 7 and Peru No. 1 in 6,372. countries in 575,713 with, France, 546,089, Portugal 543,080 and Denmark 534. 108. La population of Japan is 125 million.

Japan’s seven-day average of mobile phones is 26,785, the lowest since July with a record 255,534 seven weeks ago.

South Korea’s, like Japan’s, is much larger than a few months. Cases are at a three-month low with a seven-day moving average of 22,446. At the end of June, there were about 7,000. The daily record 621,328 on March 17. .

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China, where COVID-19 emerged more than two and a half years ago, has reported 5226 deaths. Before a peak in April, it was 4636, which has remained at that number since early February 2021. On Sunday, China reported 503 cases, totaling 5659 in April. 29. These are cases of disease shown. Asymptomatic cases are reported in mainland China.

In total, China reported 1,748 on Sunday, more than triple last week’s figure.

“During the National Day Golden Week holiday, covid in general in China has obviously deteriorated,” Ting Lu, Nomura’s lead China economist, wrote in a note.

In Beijing, the resident has tightened the interprovincial to prevent citizens from returning from their vacations.

The number of passengers traveling through China during this year’s festival week was about 60% lower than in 2019.

Gulnazar, a resident of Ili, whom the Washington Post identified through a call for security reasons, said: “We’ve been locked in our space for more than 40 days. We lack everything, especially food,” said Gulnazar, a resident of Ili, who identified himself to The Washington Post via a call for security reasons. “There are so many difficulties, I need to cry just by mentioning them. “

The country’s most sensible leaders will meet in Beijing on Oct. 16.

Hong Kong, like China, has followed a “zero tolerance” for the coronavirus with heavy restrictions eased, adding quarantine in hotels for arrivals from countries.

Hong Kong reported 3 deaths and 4,890 on Sunday with a record 79,876 on March 3.

The BA. 5 Omicron strain has the highest dominance in the world, accounting for 81. 3% of cases in the United States, according to CDC projections through Sept. 30. The CDC did not update the report Saturday. The strain was first detected in the past due to April.

The CDC classified 3. 3 percent of counties, districts, and territories as “high,” compared with 22. 9 percent “medium” and 73. 7 percent “low. “In “high” places, masks are indoors.

New weekly hospitalizations in the U. S. The U. S. economy for a week last Tuesday was 3773, a weekly decrease of 7. 4%. on Sunday 25,759, or a capacity of 3. 64 percent, and well below the Jan. 20 record of 160,113 (20. 6 percent), according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

On Thursday, in its weekly report, the CDC said the vaccination rate of single adults in the U. S. is still a week. UU. es 90. 6% with service number one terminated at 77. 8% and reinforcement at 52. 1%. The overall population rates are 79. 7% for one vaccine, 68% for two, 48. 9% for three, 37. 9% for four, and only those over 50 can get the booster for now.

The CDC says 5. 3 percent of eligible people over the age of 12, or about 11. 5 million, earned the updated reminder targeting Omicron after the launch four weeks ago. Last week alone, it was 3. 9 million.

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