The global number of new cases reported last week was over 3.4 million, a 12% increase as compared to the previous week. Globally, COVID-19 weekly case incidence increased with an average of around 490 000 cases reported each day over the past week as compared to 400 000 cases reported daily in the previous week.

Following a steady decline for over two months, the number of weekly deaths reported was similar to the previous week, with almost 57 000 deaths reported.

The cumulative number of cases reported globally is now over 190 million and the number of deaths exceeds 4 million. At this rate, it is expected that the cumulative number of cases reported globally could exceed 200 million in the next three weeks.

Last week, four Regions (all except the Regions of the Americas and Africa) reported an increase in case incidence.