GENEVA, Dec 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 4.6 million newly confirmed novel coronavirus cases were registered worldwide in the past week, which is the all-time-high weekly count since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization said.
According to the global organization’s data, a total of 4,612,790 novel coronavirus cases and 79,001 fatalities were registered worldwide between Dec 14 and 20. The previous all-time-high figures for a seven-day period were registered on Dec 7-13, when 4,329,927 coronavirus cases and 75,038 fatalities were confirmed all over the globe.
The majority of those cases were registered in North and South America – more than 2.3 million. At the same time, Europe accounts for the majority of fatalities, registering a weekly death toll of over 36,000.
Between Dec 14 and 20, the case count increased by more than 1.6 million in the United States, by more than 326,000 in Brazil, by over 194,000 in Turkey, by over 194,000 in Russia, by over 174,000 in India, and by over 173,000 in Germany.
The infection has also been spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom (over 173,000 new cases), Italy (over 112,000), France (over 93,000), Poland (over 76,000), the Netherlands (over 73,000) and Colombia (over 73,000). — NNN-AGENCIES
