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The continent where deaths from covid-19 decreased the most

2021-12-21T22:12:51.579Z


Even with the overall decline in COVID-19 cases, the US has the highest number of new cases in the world. | Health | CNN


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The Americas had a 15% decrease in new deaths from covid-19, the highest of all regions, according to WHO data.

Covid-19 cases fell 10% in the Americas, but a quarter of the countries in the region reported increases in the week.

The United States, Canada, and Argentina had the highest number of new cases in the region.

Cases increased 55% in Canada and 91% in Argentina.

Even with the overall decline in COVID-19 cases, the US has the highest number of new cases in the world.

Covid-19 cases declined 12% in the United States last week and increased in several other countries, but the US still has the highest number of new cases of any country, according to data released Tuesday in the weekly epidemiological report of the World Health Organization.

There were 4.1 million new cases worldwide between December 13 and 19, a slight decrease from the previous week.

The number of new deaths fell 9%, to almost 45,000.

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The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany reported the highest number of new COVID-19 cases last week.

Cases in the US decreased 12% to 725,750, while cases in the UK increased 45%.

The WHO African region had the largest increase in cases, and this region and the Western Pacific were the only ones to see an increase in new cases in the past seven days, according to WHO data.

Europe had the highest total number of new cases and accounted for 63% of the new cases reported.

Weekly deaths increased by 15% in the African region, the only region that saw an increase in new deaths.

As of December 21, 2021, there are 276 million cases of covid-19 in the world and 5.3 million deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

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Source: cnnespanol

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