India reports 18% decrease in new Covid cases, 13% decrease in number of deaths during October 11-17: WHO

India reported an 18% lower within the new COVID-19 instances together with a 13% decline within the variety of deaths in the course of the week of October 11 to 17, the World Well being Organisation (WHO) has mentioned, highlighting that each one the areas globally, besides the European Area, reported a fall in new weekly instances of the lethal virus.

The COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Replace, launched by the World Well being Organisation on October 19, mentioned that with simply over 2.7 million new instances and over 46,000 new deaths reported in the course of the week of October 11 to 17, the worldwide variety of new instances and deaths remained much like that of the earlier week.

Aside from the European Area, which reported a 7% enhance within the variety of new weekly instances when in comparison with the earlier week, all the opposite areas reported declines in new weekly instances.

The replace mentioned that the biggest lower in new weekly instances was reported from the African Area (18%), adopted by the Western Pacific Area (16%). The African Area additionally reported the biggest decline in weekly deaths (25%) adopted by the South-East Asia and Japanese Mediterranean Areas with 19% and eight% declines, respectively.

The cumulative variety of confirmed instances reported globally is now over 240 million and the cumulative variety of deaths is just below 4.9 million.

The best numbers of latest instances had been reported from the US of America (582,707 new instances; 11% lower), the UK (283,756 new instances; 14% enhance), Russia (217,322 new instances; 15% enhance), Turkey (213,981 new instances; much like the quantity reported within the earlier week) and India (114,244 new instances; 18% lower).

The replace mentioned that declining developments continued within the South-East Asia Area, with just below 215,000 new instances and over 2,900 new deaths reported, a lower of 13% and 19% respectively as in comparison with the earlier week.

All international locations within the area reported a decline in new instances and deaths this week, aside from Thailand that reported an analogous variety of instances as in comparison with the earlier week.

Whereas India reported the very best numbers of latest instances at 114,244, they had been nonetheless an 18% lower over the earlier week, Thailand (72,817 new instances) and Myanmar (9202 new instances) additionally reported excessive numbers of latest instances within the South-East Asia Area.

Within the area, the very best numbers of latest deaths had been reported from India (1,535 new deaths; a 13% lower), Thailand (582 new deaths; a 14% lower), and Indonesia (301 new deaths; a 37% lower).

The areas reporting the very best weekly case incidence charges per 100,000 inhabitants had been the European Area and the Area of the Americas and the identical two areas reported the very best weekly incidence in deaths, of 1.9 and 1.8 per 100 000 inhabitants, respectively.

The replace famous that globally, three further international locations, territories or areas reported instances with Variants of Concern previously week. As of October 19, instances of Alpha variant have been reported from 196 international locations, Beta variant from 145 international locations, Gamma variant from 99 international locations, and Delta variant from 193 international locations throughout all six WHO areas.

“The present international genetic epidemiology is characterised by a predominance of Delta variant, with declining prevalence of different variants amongst SARS-CoV-2 sequences submitted to publicly out there datasets.

“Given its larger transmissibility, Delta has outcompeted different variants, together with different VOCs, in lots of international locations. Vital sub-regional and country-level variation, however, continues to be noticed; most notably inside some South American international locations, the place the development of the Delta variant has been extra gradual than that noticed in different areas, and different variants (e.g. Gamma, Mu) nonetheless contribute a big proportion of sequence samples,” the replace mentioned.