Covid Europe, WHO: 6% increase in infections and 12% deaths

There are just over 3 million new cases of Covid-19 reported globally between 25 and 31 October, with “a slight upward trend” (+ 3%) according to reports from the World Health Organization in the last weekly report on the progress of the pandemic. Over 50 thousand deaths reported in the period under review, an increase of 8% compared to the previous 7 days. Also this week the variations related to Europe stand out, the only WHO region to record an increase in infections (+ 6%), and the second for increase in deaths (+ 12%) after South-East Asia (+ 50%) ). As of October 31, the Geneva agency calculates, there are over 246 million cases of Covid-19 confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic and almost 5 million deaths. the other regions recorded decreases or stable trends “, explains the WHO. The biggest drops were reported by the Eastern Mediterranean region (-12%), followed by Southeast Asia and Africa (-9%). in the period 25-31 October, “the observed increase was mainly determined by the South-East Asia region”, in fact, “followed by the European region and the Western Pacific (+10%)”. The regions that in the last week examined from the WHO report the highest weekly incidence rates per 100 thousand inhabitants are Europe (192.3 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants) and the Americas (71.8 / 100 thousand). The same two regions recorded the highest weekly incidence of deaths (2.6 and 1.5 per 100mi the inhabitants respectively). The highest number of new cases was reported by the United States (528,455 new infections, + 7%), the United Kingdom (285,028, -14%), the Russian Federation (272,147, + 9%), Turkey (182,027, -8%). ) and Ukraine (152,897, + 14%).