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In Europe, the number of coronavirus infections fell for the first time in three months.
Last week, 1.84 million cases were recorded, a ten percent decrease from the previous seven days, with much of the continent now under new national bans.
France imposed a nationwide lockdown on October 30, Germany launched a breaker earlier this month, and Austria launched a three-week lockdown from Tuesday.
Europe, whose total number of infections rose to over 15 million on Tuesday, accounted for almost half of all cases worldwide.
Today’s WHO data showed that the number of deaths in the second wave continues to rise. More than 29,000 deaths have been recorded across the continent – an 18 percent increase from the previous week.
There were 1.84 million cases recorded in the past week, a ten percent decrease from the previous seven days, according to data released by WHO
In total, nearly four million cases of the novel coronavirus were recorded worldwide in the week leading up to Sunday, and nearly 60,000 people died from the disease over the same period.
Europe accounted for 46 percent of new global cases and 49 percent of deaths, according to the UN Health Authority’s weekly epidemiological update.
WHO data showed that Austria saw the largest increase in new cases on the continent last week, up 30 percent from the previous week.
The Americas, which is the second hardest hit region, continued to see rising numbers of cases and an increase in deaths from the novel coronavirus.
The number of cases in the region rose over 40 percent, with more than 1.45 million new cases registered, and the death toll rose 11 percent. There were over 19,100 new deaths in the seven days.
More than a million of the new cases have been seen in the United States, where nearly 11 million cases have been counted since the pandemic began.
The only region where the number of new cases and deaths has decreased in the past week was Southeast Asia, according to the WHO.
Globally, more than 1.3 million people have died of Covid-19 and over 55 million have been infected with the virus since it emerged in China late last year. This emerges from a list of official sources compiled by AFP.
According to the latest reports, the US was the country with the most new deaths with 1,313 new deaths, followed by France with 1,219 and Italy with 731.
A man rides an electric bike in front of the Eiffel Tower in Trocadero Square in Paris on November 18, 2020 while a second lockdown has been carried out in France to help contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus
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