United Nations: In the last week in India, new cases of Covid-19 saw a decline of 13 percent, but still new cases of infection are the highest in India worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said this. According to the Covid-19 weekly epidemiological update data received by the WHO from the national authorities till May 16, the past week has seen a steady decrease in new cases and deaths worldwide where more than 48 lakh new cases have been reported and 86,000 new cases of deaths Stayed below It has decreased by 12 percent and five percent respectively from the previous week.
The organization said that the maximum number of new cases came from India (23, 87, 663 new cases), which has decreased by 13 percent compared to the previous week. This was followed by Brazil (4,37,076 new cases, three percent increase), the US (2,35,638 new cases, 21 percent decline), Argentina (1,51,332 new cases, eight percent increase) and Colombia (1,15,834, six Percent increase).
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Most new cases of death have also been reported from India where 27,922 new cases have been registered. Two new patients are dying per one lakh population, this is a four percent increase. This is followed by Nepal (1,224 new deaths, 4.2 new deaths per 100,000 population, 266 percent increase) and Indonesia (1,125 new deaths, 0.4 new deaths per 100,000 population, five percent decline). According to the data received by the WHO from the national authorities till May 9, the maximum number of new cases in India was recorded 27,38,957, which is five percent more than the week before.
According to WHO estimates, the total cases of infection in India are 2.46 crores and the total deaths are 2,70,284. The data also revealed that more than 2.5 million new cases have been reported in the South East Asia region last week and more than 30,000 patients have died, which is 12 percent and seven percent less than the previous week respectively. . The organization said that new cases have come down after rising for nine consecutive weeks, although the total number is at an all-time high since the global pandemic began. Also said that the causes of death have increased in the ninth week in a row.
