(ANSA) - BELGRADE, MAR 17 - The countries of Central-Eastern Europe as a whole have registered more than 560 thousand new cases of infection and almost 11 thousand other deaths in the week until March 14.
This is reported by the data of the latest epidemiological bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Among the nations most affected was Poland, a country that in the last week recorded 111,718 new infections (+ 27%) and 1,893 deaths (+ 25%).
According to the WHO weekly bulletin, another 560,732 new coronavirus cases (+ 12.5% compared to last week) and 10,916 new deaths +11.1%) were reported by the Black and Eastern European countries to the WHO in the week to March 14, bringing the total number of cases since the outbreak in the region to 12,414,434, deaths to 286,389.
According to WHO data, the Central-Eastern European countries that have registered the most new cases of contagion in the last seven days were Poland (111718), Czechia (77747), Germany (69063), Ukraine (59528), Hungary (50473), Romania (30331) and Serbia (29654).
The countries in the region that recorded the most new deaths in the past week were Poland (1893), Czechia (1509), Germany (1471), Ukraine (1281), Hungary (1079), Slovakia (692) and Bulgaria (641).
In Central-Eastern Europe as a whole, the countries with the most total deaths since the beginning of the epidemic are Germany (73371), Poland (47178), Ukraine (28303), Czechia (23226), Romania (21439), Hungary (16952) and Bulgaria ( 11234).
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