Oct 23 (UPI) — Coronavirus cases continue to decline globally with a weekly decline of 16%, with only Japan and South Korea emerging among countries with at least 25,000 infections, with deaths falling 11% to the lowest point since the pandemic began in early 2020.
Some countries report knowledge on weekends. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionU. S. officials provided weekly updates on Thursday.
Records were 3,848,008 cases on Jan. 21, at the height of the Omicron subvariant, and 16,865 deaths on Jan. 21, 2021, when the Delta subvariant peaked.
Infections in Japan rose 10%, deaths fell 3%. Japan recorded 407 deaths in ninth position and 232,471 in fifth position.
Germany again recorded the highest number of weekly cases, 563,858, but down 15%, 3 weeks after a 60% increase, and the highest number of deaths at the time at 1,062, with a 20% increase a week after an 88% increase.
Among the countries reporting more than a hundred deaths with increases in the week after: Italy 23% at No. 5586, Brazil 57% at No. 7,470, Taiwan 3% at No. 8,415, the Philippines 7% at No. 11,265, Spain 4% at No. 12,186, Chile 16% at No. 15,123, Hungary 13% at No. 16,118, Indonesia 12% in No. 17,115.
The declines Great Britain 16% at No. 3. 715, Russia 10% at No. 4,642, Canada 4% at No. 10,288, Poland 10% at No. 14,129.
Over the past week, Asia reported 32 of the world’s cases and fell 0. 8 to a cumulative total of 192,687,176, according to Worldometers. info. The continent is home to 59% of the world’s population.
South America, the only continent with a backlog of cases: 26% to 64,342,093. Europe fell to 21% with a cumulative global record of 233,159,940. North America decreased 33% to 117,497,461, Oceania 31% to 12,545,889, Africa 16% to 12,663,926.
Two continents reported an accumulation of deaths: South America 10% for 1,332,065 and Asia 1% for 1,485,709, Africa 60% for 257,767, North America 33% for 1,549,651, Oceania 29% for 21,434, Europe 5% for one world. High 1,936,195 .
India is the time in cases with four four, 6 four 2, 7 four 2, adding 1. 99 four on Sunday and third in deaths with 528,961 adding four 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.
In the 10 most important deaths, Mexico ranks fifth with 330,320 and no weekend data, Peru sixth with 216,877, Great Britain seventh with 19,682, Italy eighth with 175,594 adding 52 on Sunday, Indonesia ninth with 158,429 adding thirteen on Sunday and France tenth with 156,337.
In the 10 most sensible cases, France is 3rd with 36,599,821 adding 31,470 on Sunday, Germany falls to 5th position Germany last week with 35,172,693, Great Britain 7th with 23,855,522, Italy 8th with 23,348,075 adding 25,553 on Sunday, Japan 9th with 21,991,2873 adding Sunday Sunday, Russia 10th with 21,372,935 adding 8,672 on Sunday.
A new subvariant of Omicron is expected to dominate until mid-November in Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said.
Subvariant BQ. 1 and its sublineage BQ. 1. 1 will ship instances in “the coming weeks or months,” the firm said Friday.
Drivers updated through Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna point to at least older subvariants of Omicron.
Last week, the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use used them for children under 6. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the past approved Pfizer for children ages five to 11 and Moderna for children 6 to 17.
In the United States, they are for 16. 6% of cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bloomberg no longer tracks vaccine uses around the world. In its last update on October 7, the single rate in Europe is 76. 1%.
In Japan, the vaccination rate has stagnated with only 65. % of eligible people injected three times, to more than 80% twice, according to data from the Prime Minister’s Office. Children with two doses are in the 20% range.
Meanwhile, instances have increased as restrictions have eased. The seven-day average of cellular instances in Japan is 33,210, since July, with a record 255,534 seven weeks ago.
“It would be unexpected if the number of infections exceeded that of the seventh wave,” Hiroshi Nishiura, a professor at Kyoto University, told Koyodo News.
South Korea’s seven-day average of cases is 24,583, down from 21,009 on Oct. 11, the lowest since mid-July. At the end of June, there were about 7,000. The daily record was 621,328 on March 17.
Some cases of the new BQ. 1 and BQ. 1. 1 variants were reported last week.
China, where COVID-19 appeared, 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 207 cases, adding 5659 on April 29. These are the shown cases of disease. Asymptomatic cases are reported in mainland China.
On Thursday, China blockaded parts of Xi’an for at least a week. Central China’s entire metropolitan domain of another thirteen million people closed for a month this year.
The 25 million citizens of Shanghai locked up for two months.
Beijing is the only major city that has moved away from a full lockdown so far.
Hong Kong reported 4 deaths and 5,535 cases on Sunday with the record of 79,876 on March 3.
The BA. 5 Omicron strain has the highest dominance in the world, accounting for 62. 2 percent of cases in the United States, according to CDC projections Wednesday. The strain was first detected in late April.
The CDC classified 1. 4 percent of counties, districts, and territories as “high,” compared with 17. 6 percent as “medium” and 80. 9 percent as “low. “, southwestern Montana, eastern Arizona and central Maine.
In its weekly update Thursday, the CDC reported 260,808 cases, the lowest since 194,600 on April 6. The record of 5,589,403 on January 19.
And the death toll fell to 2566, the lowest since 1700 on July 6 and the record of 23,376 on Jan. 13, 2021.
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 92% with the number one service full at 78% and reinforcement at 52. 3%. The overall population rates are 80% for one vaccine, 68. 2% for two, 49. 1% for three, 40. 6% for four, and only those over 50 can get the booster for now.
Although deaths are declining as vaccination rates rise, covid has long been “devastating the” lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people, World Health Organization leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote for The Guardian.
WHO estimates that 10% to 20% of survivors had medium- and long-term symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath and cognitive dysfunction. Women are twice as likely to have the disease, according to the WHO.
“While the pandemic has been dramatically replaced due to the arrival of many rescue tools, and there is light at the end of the tunnel, the effect of the long Covid for all countries is very severe and requires equivalent rapid and sustained action. “to its magnitude,” Tedros wrote.
He said this deserves to come with “providing rapid access to antivirals to patients with the greatest threat of serious disease, making an investment in studies, and sharing new equipment and wisdom, as they are known to prevent, stumble and treat patients more effectively. “that is, patients with good physical and intellectual shape, as well as monetary for those who cannot work. “