2024-02-09 09:25:30
The cases of COVID-19 worldwide have increased by 52 percent, the World Health Organization announced today.
It is noted that in the period of 28 days, from November 20 to December 17, compared to the same period of the previous year, new cases of coronavirus were 52 percent more worldwide, 850,000 new cases of COVID-19 were registered.
During this period, according to the WHO bulletin, 3,000 deaths were registered, which is 8 percent less than the figure of the previous month, and 118,000 were hospitalized, which is 23 percent more than in the previous 28 days.
As for the general indicators, since the outbreak of the pandemic, as of December 17, 2023, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in the world (confirmed) has reached 772 million, during this time 7 million people have died from the disease.
It is noteworthy that in May, WHO Director-General Tedros Hebreyesus announced that 20 million people died from Covid worldwide.