30 million cases of Covid worldwide, nearly 200,000 deaths in the United States

India is the country that has recorded the most new Covid infections with 650,231 contaminations in a week from September 7 to 13, 2020. -

The pandemic is far from being contained.

More than 30 million cases of Covid-19 have been officially recorded worldwide, according to a count made by AFP from official sources Thursday evening.

In total, at least 30,000,062 cases, including 943,086 deaths, have been reported, including nearly 200,000 in the United States alone.

More than half of the cases are located in the United States, India and Brazil, the three most affected countries with respectively 6,650,570 cases (197,364 deaths), 5,118,253 infections (83,198 deaths) and 4,419,083 cases ( 134,106 deaths).

The pace of the pandemic appears to be stabilizing globally globally, with one million additional cases detected roughly every 4 days since mid-July.

It was 94 days between the announcement of the first official case in China and the census of a million infections worldwide, then 86 more days to exceed the milestone of 10 million cases reported on June 28.

The number of known infections has since tripled, in just over two and a half months.

India, new epicenter

After being struck first by the Covid-19 pandemic, Asia is again the region of the world that has recorded the most new cases over the last seven days (742,286), including more than 8 out of 10 in India alone .

Latin America and the Caribbean (493,120), Europe (327,524), Canada and the United States (273,339), the Middle East (111,986), Africa (52,584) and Oceania (548) follow. ).

In total, behind Latin America (8,484,443 including 316,827 deaths), Asia had 6,861,965 cases for 120,334 deaths, ahead of Canada and the United States (6,791,109, 206,602), Europe (4,700 .387, 223.849) and the Middle East (1.750.232, 41.254).

Africa (1,381,036, 33,324), is the least affected continent after Oceania (30,890, 896).

On this continent, half of the cases were recorded in South Africa (nearly 654,000).

India is the country with the most new infections over the last week (650,231), ahead of the United States (267,995), Brazil (221,194), Argentina (76,719) and Spain (70,981).

"Alarming" contagions in Europe

Thursday, the WHO expressed concern about the “alarming” level of contagion in Europe.

"The September figures should serve as an alarm for all of us" across Europe, where the number of new cases is now higher than those recorded in March and April, said from Copenhagen the director of the European branch of the World Health Organization, Hans Kluge.

The pace of the increase in the number of new cases has increased sharply in the United Kingdom over the past seven days (+ 39%) as well as in France (+ 19%).

The UN organization has also ruled out shortening its recommendation to a 14-day quarantine for all those who have been in contact with the virus.

"We would only revise it on the basis of a change in our understanding of science, which is not the case until now," insisted Catherine Smallwood, in charge of emergency situations at the WHO. Europe.

However, in France, the duration of isolation has been reduced to seven days in the event of contact.

It is ten days in the UK and Ireland and several European countries, such as Portugal and Croatia, are currently considering reducing it.

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