Nov. 6 (UPI) — The coronavirus scenario continues to improve globally with an 18% weekly decline in cases and a 23% drop in deaths, Asia is seeing a surge in infections, namely Japan and South Korea, amid two new Omicron subvariants.
The seven-day global moving average for 295,062 cases, the lowest since September 2020, according to Worldometers. info. In one week, infections fell to 2,065,438 with a cumulative 637,770,323 on Sunday. Sunday’s cases were 178,242, the lowest number since 163,189 on June 29, 2020, with Saturday at 231,116. The last time instances exceeded one million on July 31.
International daily deaths fell to 369 on Sunday, the fewest since 276 on March 10, 2020, with 561 on Saturday.
Some countries report knowledge on weekends. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have made weekly updates.
Records were 3,847,809 cases on Jan. 21, at the height of the Omicron subvariant, and 16,890 deaths on Jan. 21, 2021, when the Delta subvariant peaked.
The World Health Organization has expressed concern about subvariants of Omicron.
“Right now, we are in a scenario where we have more than three hundred Omicron subvariants that are circulating and those subvariants are similar to each other,” Dr Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said at a briefing. last week. ” It’s confusing in terms of subvariant names, we recognize that, however, the names that are used are the clinical names through the other teams that analyze them from a technical point of view. “
Approximately 95% of the subvariants are BA. 5 and approximately 20% of them are BQ. 1. And XBB, which is a recombinant of two BA. 2 sublineages, represents about 1% of the sequences circulating in the world.
Amid the new variants, South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-so said Friday that the number of infections could reach up to 200,000 cases, but less than a third of the record. other people over the age of 18.
Japan, South Korea and Australia all reported an increase in deaths and cases over the past week.
Japan recorded the highest number of weekly cases, 375,907, an increase of 38% and seventh in deaths with 387, an increase of 6%.
South Korea’s 297,276 infections were the time in the world, with an increase of 27%, and deaths were 223, an increase of 42% in the 12th.
Germany, which recorded the number of weekly instances last week, fell to third place with 252,641, down 37%, five weeks after a 60% increase, and the moment in deaths with 1062, unchanged two weeks after an 88% increase. Germany is the moment number of deaths with 991, with a gain of 7% and a cumulative of 88% two weeks ago.
The other accumulation in instances between countries with at least 25,000: Australia 18% to No. 9,38,875.
Among the countries that reported more than a hundred deaths with increases last week: Taiwan 5% in No. 5455, Indonesia 52% at No. 11. 236, Chile 17% at No. 14. 137, Australia 24% at No. 15,119, India 109% at No. . 16,115.
The decreases were the United States 32% at No. 1,1,548, Great Britain 27% at No. 3,737, Russia 14% at No. 4,497, France 20% at No. 6,404, Italy 40% at No. 8,335, Brazil 42% at No. 9,276, the Philippines 3% at No. 10,245, Spain 35% at No. 12,138.
Last week, Asia reported 50. 5 global cases, a week after 36. 9 Array and increased 14 to a cumulative total of 194,691,725, according to Worldometers. info. The continent is home to 59% of the world’s population.
Also up: Africa 19% to 12,680,067.
The decreases were Europe 40% for a global cap of 235,090,218, North America 34% for 118,104,949, South America 16% for 64,501,113, Oceania 15% for 12,677,530.
Three continents reported an increase in deaths: Asia 17% to 1,490,680, Oceania 3% to 21,743, Africa 1% to 257,935.
The decreases were North America with 38% to 1,555,493, Europe with 29% to an overall high of 1,946,481, South America with 23% to 1,333,376.
India is the moment in cases with 44,660,579 adding 1,122 on Sunday and third in deaths with 530,500 adding 14 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 sensitive deaths, Russia ranks fourth with 390,588 adding 62 on Sunday, Mexico fifth with 330,415 and no weekend data, Peru sixth with 217,080 adding 11 on Sunday, Britain seventh with 194,704, Italy eighth with 179,436, Indonesia ninth with 158,829 adding 22 on Sunday and France 10 with 157,277.
In the 10 most sensitive cases, France is 3rd with 36,946,904 adding 26,840 on Saturday, Germany fourth with 35,823,771, South Korea 6th with 25,838,239 adding 36,675 on Sunday, Great Britain 7th with 23,930,041, Italy 8th with 23,642,011, Japan 9th with 3,625. 27 Russia on Sunday with 22,674,944 adding 4,566 on Sunday.
In Japan, instances have increased as restrictions have eased. The seven-day average of cellular instances in Japan is 53,701 compared to 26,325 on Oct. 12 and fewer than 20,000 in early July with a record 255,316 on Aug. 18.
Japan’s peak in a bloodless climate.
“We need other people to get vaccinated early against the omicron variant and the flu while taking critical steps to prevent infections,” he told Mainichi. He also suggested that other people wear masks in crowded spaces.
And as in countries, there is the punch of the coronavirus and the flu.
Throughout the pandemic, Japan has had a low mortality rate.
Japan has 375 deaths consistent with millions, the 145th in the country, with the global at 847. 4 and Peru not. 1 with 6,376. In cases, Japan’s rate is 180,574 consistent with millions in position 890 with global 81,810 and Austria among primary countries at 598,934 with France, 563,117, Portugal 545,139 and Denmark 537,465. The population of Japan is 125 million.
For the first time since the pandemic began, Japan has resumed normalcy on foreign sea routes, a ferry service connecting Fukuoka in southwestern Japan with Busan in South Korea.
South Korea’s seven-day average of cases is 42,468, up from 20,355 on Oct. 14, the lowest since mid-July. At the end of June, there were about 7,000. The daily record was 621,328 on March 17.
On Saturday, China reported 4,420 new infections transmitted on Saturday, the National Health Commission said, the most since May 6.
The scenario may simply be “more serious and complex” as the country enters the winter flu season, Hu Xiang, an official with China’s National Health Commission, said Saturday.
In China’s 0 Covid policy, the maximum number of foreign visitors can enter China and cities can be closed.
“Practice has shown that our ArrayArrayArray pandemic strategy and prevention [is] surely correct, and those measures have proven to be the most economical and effective,” M. Hu said.
The annual Beijing marathon was held on Sunday morning under strict Covid protocols, after being cancelled for the past two years.
In the central city of Zhengzhou, Apple’s largest iPhone meeting plant, Foxconn, shut down the region on Wednesday after an outbreak. The factory employs another 200,000 people at the factory and accounts for 85% if the iPhone is assembled.
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 18 deaths and 5,111 on Saturday with the record of 79,876 on March 3.
But the legal obligation to wear a mask remains in place both indoors and outdoors. And foreign visitors will have to undergo tests for seven consecutive days after arriving in Hong Kong, and for the first 3 days, banned in restaurants, bars and gyms.
They lifted flight bans with some countries and shortened hotel quarantines in March.
In the United States, the CDC classified 2% of counties, districts, and territories as “high,” compared with 20. 1% “medium” and 77. 5% as “low. “scattered places in the United States.
In its weekly update Thursday, the CDC reported 273,110 instances per week after 260,830, the lowest level since 226,498 on April 13. The record was 5,553,528 on Jan. 19.
And the death toll fell to 2504, the lowest since 2406 on July 6 and the record 23,375 on January 13, 2021.
“We’re still in the middle of this, it’s not over,” White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday on the radio show Conversations on Health Care. “Four hundred deaths per day is not an appropriate level. I need it to be much smaller than that. “
And hospitals may face a “negative trifecta” this winter due to emerging covid variants, the resurgence of flu and respiratory syncytial virus, Fauci said.
“It’s going to be very confusing and may even put a strain on the hospital system, especially for the pediatric population,” Fauci said.
New weekly hospitalizations in the U. S. The U. S. economy for a week was 3272, a weekly low of 1%. capacity of 3. 87 percent, and well below the Jan. 20 record of 160,113 (20. 6 percent), according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Also Thursday in its weekly report, the CDC said the vaccination rate of single adults in the U. S. is still being vaccinated. The U. S. was 91. 2% with the number one full service at 78. 3% and updated booster doses at 9. 9%. Total population rates are 80. 2% at a time, 68. five percent for primary complete and 8. 4 percent for updated retirement five and above.
The CDC recently went from a one- and two-booster discontinuation to one with the updated bivalent booster.
The booster has 4 times higher levels of neutralizing antibodies than the Omicron BA. 4/BA. 5 variants in other people over 55 years of age than the original vaccine.
Fauci also conducts testing before traveling to social gatherings, especially where there are vulnerable people.
“It’s a smart way to make sure you’re not spreading infections, so use tests, wear a mask when appropriate and get vaccinated,” he said.