Highest Ever Covid Cases Logged Last Week Worldwide: WHO

New Delhi, January 27 (TNA) According to a information shared by the World Health organisation (WHO), last week saw the highest number of new Covid cases worldwide ever since the pandemic broke out in December 2019. The number of fresh cases in the last week touched a staggering 10 million. At the same time, more than 50 thousand people also died due to infection.

The global health body has also emphasized that the Omicron variant is gradually becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus due to its higher lethality and reproductive rate than the delta variant. According to the weekly data released by the WHO on Tuesday, a five percent increase was registered in the new cases of corona globally in the last week (between January 17 and 23).

According to news reports based on the data, last week the maximum number of new cases were registered in America (42,15,852), France (24,43,821), India (21,15,100), Italy (12,31,741 new cases) and Brazil (8,24,579 new cases). At the same time, talking about the deaths, according to the WHO, the maximum deaths due to corona infection went to America (10,795), Russia (4,792), India (3,343), Italy (2440) and Britain (1888).