Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 12th.
The weekly report quoted statistics from the United Kingdom.
WHO statistics show that 142 countries and regions have reported cases of Delta virus infection
In terms of global epidemic data, the weekly report shows that in the week as of August 5, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crowns worldwide exceeded 200 million, and it took only 6 months to go from 100 million to 200 million
Among the six global regions classified by WHO, the Western Pacific and the Americas have the largest increase in the number of new confirmed cases, increasing by 19% and 14% respectively from the previous week; the Western Pacific also has the largest increase in the number of new deaths.
The top five countries in the world with the number of new confirmed cases this week are the United States, India, Iran, Brazil and Indonesia
Focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic
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