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COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological situation Report: WHO

December 23, 2020

New COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to increase during the past week, by 6% and 4% respectively. The region of the Americas again accounted for the greatest proportion, reporting over 2.3 million new cases (half of the global cumulative), while the European region reported the highest number of new deaths in the past week. The African region accounted for the greatest relative increase in new cases (27%) and deaths (34%) compared to the previous week. Increasing trends were also observed in the Western Pacific region, while the South-East Asia and Eastern Mediterranean regions were the only two that reported a decrease in both cases and deaths.

In the past week, the five countries reporting the highest number of cases globally were the United States of America with over 1.6 million cases, a 14% increase from the previous week, Brazil (3,26,751 new cases, an 8% increase from the previous week), Turkey (1,94,476 new cases, an 11% decrease from the previous week), the Russian Federation (1,94,449) new cases; less than a 1% increase from the previous week) and India (1,74,194) new cases; an 18% decrease from the previous week.

Situation by WHO Region

South-East Asia Region
The Region reported just over 2,49,000 new cases and under 4,000 new deaths, 14% and 10% decreases respectively. This continues the declines observed since the middle of September. Only two countries out of ten in the region reported an increase in new cases.

India has now reported over 10 million cases and despite the number of new cases falling by 18% this week, the country reported the 5th highest number of new cases globally (1,74,000 new cases, 126 new cases per 1 million population). In the Region, India was followed by Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal in the number of new cases and new deaths reported last week.

Myanmar reported 8,300 new cases last week, an 11% decline from the previous week. Sri Lanka reported 3,900 new cases, a 20% decline from last week. Thailand reported 139 new cases last week, a 16% increase from the previous reporting period.