More than 5.2 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 worldwide in the past seven days, the largest sign since the start of the epidemic, despite the vaccination campaign against the disease.
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows an increase in cases of 12% compared to the previous week. Even then, the record was in mid-December 2020, when the United States was close to the peak of the third wave of infections.
this time, The numbers are plotted by India, which recorded more than 200,000 daily cases in past days, and Brazil, which is also in the worst phase of the epidemic. Many countries in Europe and Latin America, such as Argentina, also have to deal with new outbreaks that worry health officials.
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The mark was reached soon after The world has surpassed 3 million deaths due to Covid-19. According to Johns Hopkins data, this number has also been increasing since March. In the past seven days, 82,000 deaths were recorded, up from 60,000 confirmed deaths in the week ending March 14.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, last week warned of an increase in cases worldwide, and said that the Covid-19 pandemic was still far from its end.
Cases are increasing despite the vaccination campaign, which is advancing at an uneven pace among countries. While 48.18% of the UK population has already received at least one dose of covid-19 immunization, in India that proportion is 7.71%, according to data from Our World in Data, a project associated with the University of Oxford. In the United States, half of adults have already received their first dose.
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