Coronavirus: An average of two million cases were reported each day worldwide last week

More than 2 million cases of Covid-19 were recorded on average every day in the world from the 1st to the 7th of January, a number twice as much as 10 days ago, according to a count of the French Agency.

An average of 2,106,118 cases were recorded each day for the last seven days. The limit of one million daily cases was exceeded in the week from 23 to 29 December 2021.

The number of new daily cases has increased by 270% since the end of November 2021 when the Omicron variant was discovered in South Africa and Botswana.

The vast majority of new cases are currently found in Europe (7,211,290 cases in seven days, + 47% over the previous week) and in the United States and Canada (4,808,098 cases, + 76%). These two regions account for 49% and 33% of the cases recorded in a week, respectively, worldwide.

Covid-19 spreads rapidly across almost every continent: in Oceania (369,313 cases in seven days, + 224%), in Latin America and the Caribbean (1,126,862 cases, + 148%), in the Middle East (209,021 cases in seven days, + 116%) and in Asia (714,017 cases, + 145%).

Only Africa is currently recording numbers in equilibrium (304,224 cases in seven days). But infections there, as in Europe and the US / Canada zone, are at their highest level since the beginning of the pandemic.

The current wave of infections, however, is not accompanied by an increase in deaths. In the last seven days, an average of 6,237 deaths have been recorded every day in the world, the lowest number since the end of October 2020, ie for almost 15 months. Recently, up to 8,049 deaths in a 24-hour period were recorded from November 29 to December 5, just after the discovery of Omicron.

Source: AMPE