The World Health Organization said that the weekly rate of coronavirus infections worldwide rose for the first time since last January, and this comes at a time when countries in Europe and Asia are setting records, while Israel announced that it has discovered a new mutant of the virus.
In a statement published early today, Wednesday, the World Health Organization said that infections recorded in the second week of March increased by 8% compared to the first week of the month, noting that more than 11 million cases and 43,000 deaths from the virus had been recorded during the period from 7 to the 13th of this month.
She added that cases rose especially in the Western Pacific and Africa compared to the previous week, with an increase of 29% and 12%, respectively, and reported that the weekly increase in Europe was 2%.
She added that the Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, North America and South America witnessed a decrease in the number of registered cases during the same period.
According to the latest data published by the “Worldmeter” website, today, Corona virus infections around the world exceeded 462 million, and the deaths reached 6 million and 73 thousand, while the number of people recovered exceeded 395 million and 180 thousand.
record score
During the past 24 hours, Germany recorded a record weekly infection rate with the Corona virus in Germany, according to new data published today by the German “Robert Koch” Institute for Infectious Diseases Control.
The institute stated that the rate of HIV infections per 100,000 people over a period of 7 days reached 1607.1 infections today, compared to 1585.4 yesterday.
And in the past 24 hours, Germany recorded 262,000 new infections with the Corona virus and 269 additional deaths.
In the past few days, France recorded an increasing rise in HIV infections, although it remains below 20 thousand infections, and Britain, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands are witnessing an increase in infections in light of the outbreak of the sub-mutated “BA.2” (BA.2) from Omicron.
In Asia, today, Wednesday, South Korea recorded a record number of more than 400,000 new cases of corona, in one day, and this comes as the country seeks to further ease the rules of social separation, despite the wave of infections with the mutant Omicron.
In turn, China recorded today, Wednesday, about two thousand new infections with the Corona virus, down from 3,600 cases the previous day.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the Chinese authorities imposed a closure that included tens of millions across the country with the exacerbation of the wave of infection with the Corona virus, as at least 13 cities are subject to a comprehensive closure, while partial closure measures were imposed on a number of other cities, knowing that the country recorded about 17,000 infections in March. This March.
In the United States, where the daily rate of corona infections has decreased to about 33,000 cases per day, recent studies have warned that cases may return to increasing.
new mutant
For its part, the Israeli Ministry of Health announced the detection of a new mutation of the Corona virus in two patients.
The ministry said that the new mutant combines the “PA1” and “PA2” sub-mutants of the Omicron mutant, according to the Jerusalem Post website.
The ministry added that the mutant has not been detected in any other country so far, without providing clarifications about the characteristics of the new mutant.
And the Jerusalem Post reported that the increase in some indicators of infection in Israel – despite the significant decrease in injuries – may be due to the easing of restrictions and the outbreak of the “PA2” sub-mutant from Omicron.
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