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WHO latest Situation Analysis COVID-19 report: Weekly Epidemiological Update

September 17, 2020

In the week from 7 through 13 September, there were over 1.8 million new cases of COVID-19, comparable to the previous seven days, while deaths increased slightly as compared to the previous week with over 40,600 deaths reported.

The Region of the Americas has consistently registered the greatest number of reported cases for many weeks. It continues to account for nearly half of the global total of cases even as cases have declined in the reporting week. The African Region also showed a decline in reported cases this week and was the only region to report a decline in deaths.

The European region reported the third-highest number of new cases, amounting to 16% of the global total and is the region with the second-highest cumulative number of cases per million population.

South-East Asia Region
In the South-East Asia Region, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh continue to report the highest number of cases, although the Maldives accounts for the highest number of cumulative cases relative to its population (16,746 per million population).
The region recorded 22% of all new deaths in the last seven days but retains low overall cumulative deaths relative to the region�s population (46 per million
population).