Covid, WHO: first substantial decline in infections in the world in 2 months

There are 4 million new Covid-19 infections reported in the world from 6 to 12 September: a figure that represents “the first substantial decline in weekly cases in more than 2 months”. This was underlined by the World Health Organization, in the report released every week on the progress of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic. “All regions reported a decrease in new cases compared to the previous week”, explains WHO, highlighting that “the number of deaths reported globally in the last week also decreased compared to the previous week, with just over 62 thousand. new deaths “registered. Since the beginning of the emergency – the WHO calculates – the number of Covid-19 cases reported in the world has exceeded 224 million, with over 4.6 million deaths. Deaths that, although decreasing globally, in the last week have increased in the African region (+ 7%), while South East Asia is the one that has registered the greatest reduction (-20%). The Americas and Eastern Mediterranean regions reported slightly lower declines (-9% and -6%), while deaths reported in the European and Western Pacific regions were stable compared to the previous week. The regions that report the highest weekly incidence rates per 100 thousand inhabitants of Covid cases and deaths are the same as in the 7 days previously analyzed: Americas (143 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants; 2.3 deaths / 100 thousand) and the European region (119, 4 new cases / 100 thousand and 1.5 deaths / 100 thousand) .The highest number of new infections was reported by the USA (1,034,836 new cases, -20%), the United Kingdom (256,051, + 5%), India ( 248.248, -15%), Islamic Republic of Iran (172.030, -17%) and Turkey (158.236, + 6%).