WHO warns of new wave of COVID-19 spreading from South Asia

WHO warns of new wave of COVID-19 spreading from South Asia

Hanoi (VNA 7/4)--
The weekly report of the World Health Organization (WHO) updating the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in the world published on April 7 shows that the new outbreak concentrated in South Asia tends to spread quickly to Southeast Asia. and West Asia.
According to the report, in the past 28 days, nearly 3.3 million new cases were reported. Although this is an incomplete report due to the decrease in the number of tests, the change in rates and deaths still reflects the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic globally. In the past 28 days, the world recorded an additional 23,849 deaths from COVID-19. The number of new cases and deaths decreased by 28% and 30% respectively compared to the previous 28-day period.
In the WHO map that divides the epidemic by color, countries such as Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia are shown in red - the highest alert level, while the Philippines, Timor -Lester, Myanmar, Bhutan displayed in orange. In South Asia, India recorded the highest number of new cases with 34,785 cases, an increase of 680%, Nepal had 272 more cases, an increase of 533% and the Maldives 72 cases, an increase of 324%.
The two regions of Southeast Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean showed an increase in the number of new cases by 289% and 147%, respectively, and the number of deaths by 36% and 118% respectively.
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia are still showing green and blue colors, showing a downtrend.
On the map of mortality from COVID-19, India, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh... are also shown in red.
According to the WHO report, Europe continues to lead in 6 epidemiological regions, with more than 1.38 million new cases and 10,417 additional deaths, down 13% and 5% respectively. This decrease is mainly due to the decrease in the number of new cases in some countries with the most cases, such as Russia and Germany. The number of new cases in Russia decreased by 9% to 313,998 cases, while the number of deaths 1,014 cases was similar to the previous period. Germany sharply reduced the number of new cases by 64% to 139,261 cases, reducing the number of deaths by 39% to 1,090 cases. The UK has not recorded a large number of new cases, but has the highest number of deaths in the region at 2,678 cases. Meanwhile, France is on the list of countries with the highest number of new cases with 193,359 cases, up 98%. There are 22/61 European countries that recorded an increase of over 20% during this period, causing orange - red (increased and increased sharply) and green - blue (decreased and decreased sharply) in the euro area during the period. The map shows the change in the rate of new cases.
The Americas ranked second in the world with nearly 1.05 million new cases (down 29%) and 10,152 new deaths (down 34%), of which the US still dominated with 626,532 new cases and 7,458 deaths. new.
The Western Pacific region ranked third with 736,177 new cases and 2,494 new deaths, down 48% and 65% respectively, mainly due to the epidemic situation in 3 epidemic hotspots including Japan and South Korea. and China decreased.
Africa recorded few new cases, but a strong upward trend showed in some North African countries.

* SOURCE: https://ncov.vnanet.vn/tin-tuc/who-canh-bao-lan-song-moi-covid-19-lan-tu-nam-a/2ec3eb7b-9334-4bcf-bd45-0ba041aeca07