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Covid-19 cases rise by more than 50 per cent, deaths stable: WHO
Updated On: 12 January, 2022 07:46 AM IST | Geneva | Agencies
WHO says every world region reported a rise in cases except for Africa, where officials saw an 11 per cent drop
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Visitors to the Tokyo Zoological Park Society watch Japanese-born twin pandas and their mother at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Wednesday. Groups of six are allowed only one minute to see them as the zoo is open just for the panda exhibit until Friday. Pic/AFP
The number of new coronavirus infections in the last week jumped by about 55 per cent, although the number of deaths remained stable, the World Health Organization said in its latest pandemic report. In the weekly report issued Tuesday night, the U.N. health agency said there were about 15 million new COVID-19 cases last week and more than 43,000 deaths. Every world region reported a rise in COVID-19 cases except for Africa, where officials saw an 11 per cent drop.
Last week, WHO noted a pandemic record high of 9.5 million new infections in a single week, calling it a “tsunami” of disease.
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