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WHO's Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) weekly Epidemiological situation Report

October 13, 2020

Global Epidemiological situation
Since the last weekly Epidemiological update issued on 5 October, over 2.2 million new cases and 39,000 deaths of COVID-19 have been reported across all six WHO regions. This is the highest number of reported cases so far in a single week.

From 30 December through 11 October, 2020, over 37 million COVID-19 cases and 1 million deaths have been reported globally. Nearly half of these cases (48%) and deaths (55%) continue to be reported in the region of the Americas with the United states of America, Brazil and Argentina accounting for the greatest numbers of new cases and deaths in the region.

By WHO region, the European Region reported the greatest increase (34%) in cases in the past week while the African Region reported a substantial rise in deaths, with a 27 % increase compared to the previous week. Within the African Region, South Africa continues to register more than half (56%, 690 896) of all reported confirmed cases.

For the third week in a row, the South-East Asia Region reported a decline in new cases and deaths, 6% and 8% respectively, compared to the previous week. The decline is mainly due to decreases in reported cases in India and Bangladesh.

For the second week in a row, the Regions of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific reported increases in cases and deaths. Overall, during the reporting period, all the Regions showed an increase in cases except the South-East Asia Region.

Countries reporting the highest number of cases in the past seven days include; India, the United States of
America, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France.

Situation by WHO Region

South-East Asia Region
The gradual decline in incidence of cases and deaths in the South East Asia Region continued during the past week. The Region, nevertheless, remains among the most active, accounting for 25% of cases and 20% of deaths newly reported globally in the past seven days. The countries reporting the highest number of new cases in the South-East Asia Region continue to be India, Indonesia and Nepal, while Sri Lanka and Bhutan are showing the highest increase in the proportion of new cases in the past week compared to the previous week. Across the ten countries in the region, only Myanmar and Nepal reported an increase in the number of new deaths in the past week compared to the previous
week.

The countries reporting the highest number of new deaths per million population are India andMyanmar, with 5 and 4 new deaths per million population respectively.
In contrast to the other regions with currently high case incidence, most of the 10 Member States in the South-East Asian Region self-report their current transmission pattern as either clusters of cases or sporadic cases, with only Bangladesh and Indonesia currently reporting community transmission.

Sri Lanka reported over 1,200 new confirmed cases in the past epidemiological week, a substantial increase compared to the 46 cases confirmed the previous reporting week. In a recent development, a large cluster of cases (831 cases as on 7 October 2020) was reported in an apparel manufacturing factory in Gamphana district about 50 kms from Colombo. The exact epidemiological link is currently under investigation. The reported number of cases increased rapidly in Nepal in the past week, with over 21,000 new cases and
86 new deaths reported. Although the test positivity rate has raised from 5 to 15% in just 8 weeks, there has also been an expansion in testing activity, which is currently around 3 samples tested / 1000 persons per week.