Coronavirus COVID-19

English Situation Report on World about Health and Epidemic; published on 05 Apr 2022 by WHO.

Across the six WHO regions, over nine million new cases and over 26 000 new deaths were reported. All regions reported decreasing trends both in the number of new weekly cases and new weekly deaths (Table 1). As of 3 April 2022, just over 489 million cases and over 6 million deaths have been reported globally. After the increase observed during the first half of March 2022, the number of new COVID-19 cases has decreased for a second consecutive week, with a 16% decline during the week of 28 March through 3 April 2022 as compared to the previous week (Figure 1). The number of new weekly deaths also decreased sharply (-43%) as compared to the previous week, when an artificial spike in deaths was observed ( see WEU 85).