Covid-19: Deaths attributed to the disease at March 2020 levels – News

On the American continent, 8,800 people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 died, 42% less than the previous week, and in Europe, Africa and South Asia, the decrease was about 20%, with 14,000 deaths among the three regions, in the Middle East, A thousand people died (38% less) and in East Asia alone there was a 05% rise, with nearly 7,000 deaths.

The countries with the highest number of deaths due to Covid-19 between March 14 and 20 are Russia and the United States, with about 3,600 deaths, followed by Brazil (2,200), South Korea (2000) and China (1900).

As for the number of infections diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, it rose for the second week in a row, but the World Health Organization admits that the true number of infections could be much higher, as many countries have stopped conducting many tests due to the number injuries. Mild and asymptomatic cases.

The increase in the number of confirmed cases is associated with the prevalence of variable micronization in East Asia and the Pacific region, an increase of 21% and more than six million new infections, while in Europe there were 5.2 million cases, practically the same number in the previous week.

Once again, South Korea ranked first in the number of confirmed cases (2.8 million), followed by Vietnam (1.8 million), Germany (1.5 million), France (582 thousand), and Australia, with 513 thousand cases and an increase of 161%.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been at least 470 million cases of infection and more than six million people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have died.

Of the cases detected last week, 99.8% was caused by the micron variant, which has become prevalent since its discovery in November 2021 because it is more contagious than the previous delta variant.

The World Health Organization also indicated that a variant of the micron called BA.2 became dominant and was detected in approximately 86% of diagnosed cases.

Many of the cases detected combine Ómicron and Delta variants, but the World Health Organization stresses that this is a normal phenomenon and that there is no evidence that it is associated with cases more severe than covid-19.