South Korea has been counted as the country with the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the world for the third week in a row.
According to the World Health Organization and WHO's weekly epidemiologic report on the 23rd local time, the number of new COVID-19 cases around the world from the 14th to the 20th was 12,384,300, an increase of 7% compared to the previous week.
This increase was led by the Western Pacific region, which includes Korea.
Among the six regions, the number of new confirmed cases increased in one in the Western Pacific, up 21% from the previous week.
The rest of the Eastern Mediterranean (-41%), Africa (-33%), Southeast Asia (-23%) and Americas (-17%) showed a decrease, while Europe (0%) did not differ significantly from the previous week.
In particular, in Korea, 2,87,214 new cases were reported during this period, the highest number among countries in the world.
Accordingly, South Korea reported the highest number of new confirmed cases on a weekly basis for the third week in a row until last week, following from February 28 to March June (1461,431 people) and March 7-13 (2.1 million people).
Next, Vietnam (1,88,694), Germany (1,538,000,666), France (582,344), and Australia (513,388) have the highest number of new confirmed cases. It has been reported.
As of the 20th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases worldwide is 468.22,755.
There were 32,959 new deaths worldwide last week, down 23% from the previous week.
By region, there was a decrease in all regions except the Western Pacific (5%).
The region with the largest decrease in new deaths was the Americas (-42%), followed by the Eastern Mediterranean (-38%), Africa (-19%), Europe (-18%) and Southeast Asia (-18%).
By country, Russia (3,681 people), the United States (3,612 people), Brazil (2,242 people), South Korea (2,33 people) and China (1,921 people) reported many deaths on a weekly basis.
The cumulative number of deaths worldwide stood at 6,074,58 as of the 20th.