This week, the COVID-19 pandemic continued its significant decline in the world, with cases declining everywhere except for Asia and Oceania.

Here are the latest developments related to the spread of the Corona virus in the world in light of the latest numbers, measures and new facts.

The important indicator is that the number of diagnosed cases reflects only a small part of the real number of injuries, and care must be taken when comparing countries;

Because policies for conducting examinations vary greatly from country to country.

For statistics by country, the analysis is limited to countries with a population of not less than half a million people and a case rate of more than 50 per week per 100,000 inhabitants.

Less than 1.5 million cases per day

With 1.47 million daily infections recorded worldwide, the index fell sharply for the fifth consecutive week (-12% compared to the previous week), according to the AFP tally as of Thursday.

Daily injuries have fallen by more than half since they peaked at the end of last January (3.37 million cases per day).

Retreat in most areas

This week, only Asia and Oceania saw their epidemiological situation deteriorate with the number of cases increasing by 25% and 72%, respectively, compared to the previous week.

The situation improves significantly in all other regions: -45% in the Middle East, -40% in Latin America/Caribbean, -34% in Africa, -23% in the United States/Canada, -22% in Europe.

Epidemic acceleration areas

New Zealand is the country that recorded the largest acceleration in the spread of the virus during the week, with its daily cases increasing 7 times (+590% compared to the previous week, 17 thousand and 600 new daily cases).

It was followed by Hong Kong (+403%, 38,100), Vietnam (+119%, 120,600), South Korea (+40%, 170,300) and Thailand (+19%, 32,400).

Epidemic areas

Azerbaijan is the country with the largest weekly decline (-63%, 900), ahead of Armenia (-60%, 400), Georgia (-52%, 5,000), Panama (-51%, 400), and Israel (-50 %, 7 thousand).

The largest number of cases

South Korea became the country with the highest number of new infections this week (170,300 daily cases, +40%), ahead of Germany (153,700, -7%).

And Vietnam (120 thousand and 600, +119%) occupies the third place.

In terms of population, the region with the highest number of new cases this week is Hong Kong (3,555 per 100,000 inhabitants).

The former British colony - which is witnessing a significant increase in the number of cases when it succeeded in implementing the zero-Covid-19 policy so far - intends to subject all its residents to the examination this March.

deaths

Globally, the number of daily deaths continues to decline (7,596 deaths per day, -19%).

The United States has the highest number of daily deaths (1644 per day this week), ahead of Russia (776) and Brazil (455).

In terms of population, as is the case with injuries, the region that recorded the largest number of deaths last week is Hong Kong (12.6 deaths per 100,000 people), ahead of Latvia (6.6) and Georgia (6.3).