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April 21, 2021 New cases of Covid-19 in the world have increased for the eighth consecutive week, according to data reported in the update of the World Health Organization (WHO). In the last 7 days, reports the UN agency, over 5.2 million Sars-CoV-2 positives have been recorded. The "previous peak" which occurred "at the beginning of January 2021" has been exceeded. The number of deaths is also on the rise, for the fifth consecutive week: growth is 8% compared to last week, with over 83,000 deaths reported in 7 days.



All regions except Europe have reported an increase in new cases in the past week. The biggest climb is in the Southeast Asian region, and it is a surge largely led by India, in this period in the grip of the virus. The western Pacific region follows.



"Last week the cumulative death toll from Covid exceeded 3 million and the pace of deaths is accelerating - highlights the WHO - If it took 9 months to reach 1 million deaths, another 4 to exceed 2 million", it took "only three to reach 3 million" of lives cut off by the virus.



Italy third country in the area for deaths last week, albeit down by 14%

In Europe, therefore, over 1.6 million new cases and more than 26 thousand deaths have been registered in the last 7 days. And the European region, according to the update released by the World Health Organization, is the only area in the world to record a slight decline both in weekly positives - for the second week in a row - and in victims for the first time after 5 weeks of increasing trend. In both cases the decrease is 3%.



The slight decline observed in infections, the WHO interprets, "is a sign that the transmission of the virus in the region could slow down". The highest number of new cases in the last week was reported by Turkey (with 414,312 positives, i.e. 491.2 per 100,000 inhabitants; up by 17%), followed by France (233,275 new cases, i.e. 358.7 per 100,000 inhabitants). inhabitants; down 12%) and Germany (143,994 new cases, i.e. 173.1 per 100 thousand inhabitants; up 28%). The highest number of weekly deaths was reported by Poland (3,611 in 7 days, up 4%), Ukraine (2,772 new deaths; up 3%) and Italy (2,753 new deaths, i.e. 4.6 per 100,000 ; down 14%).