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Global COVID-19 weekly case tally surpasses 2.6 mln, WHO says

30 June 2021 12:08 (UTC +04:00)

More than 2.6 mln COVID-19 cases and over 57,000 deaths were recorded worldwide last week, the coronavirus incidence surged by 2%, while the death toll fell by 10%, reaching a new low since November 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday, APA reports citing TASS.

"Globally, COVID-19 incidence remains very high, with an average of over 370,000 cases reported each day over the past week," the WHO stated in its weekly epidemiological bulletin. "The number of new deaths continued to decrease, with over 57,000 new deaths reported globally. This is the lowest weekly mortality figure since those recorded in early November 2020."

Over the past week, some 2,600,313 new COVID-19 cases and 57,603 deaths were recorded across the world. As of June 27, as many as 180,492,131 cases of infection and 3,916,771 deaths were confirmed.

Last week, the COVID-19 incidence decreased in the Western Pacific Region (by 6%) and Southeast Asia (by 5%), while the figure rose in Africa (by 34%), the Eastern Mediterranean (by 13%) and Europe (by 10%). The coronavirus mortality rate surged in Africa (by 42%), however, it dropped in Southeast Asia (by 33%), the Western Pacific region (by 13%) as well as in the Americas (by 2%) and Europe (by 1 %).