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

October 28, 2020

In the past week, the highest number of new COVID-19 cases have been reported globally, amounting to over 2 million new cases in the past 7 days, the shortest intervals for this exponential increase since the start of the pandemic, while the number of new deaths is comparable to previous weeks. As of 25 October, over 42 million cases and 1.1 million deaths have been reported globally, with over 2.8 million new cases and nearly 40,000 new deaths reported over the past week.

For the second consecutive week the European Region accounts for the greatest proportion of reported new cases, with over 1.3 million new cases reported this past week � a 33 % increase in cases compared to the previous week � contributing nearly half of all new cases reported worldwide this week (46%).

Similarly, the number of deaths continues to increase in the region with a 35 % increase from last week and accounting for nearly one third of all new deaths globally. Although not as substantial, increases in reported new cases were also observed in the Region of the Americas, Eastern Mediterranean and African regions. Declines in cases and deaths continued to be reported in the South East Asia region while the Western Pacific region has shown a slight decline in new cases and deaths in the past 7 days.

Situation by WHO Region

South-East Asia Region
A continued declining trend in new cases and deaths was observed in the South-East Asia this week, this decline in new cases and deaths has been a weekly trend for the past five weeks with the largest decrease in new cases (decrease of 13 %) and deaths (decrease of 16 %) seen in the past 7 days. Steady decreases in cases have been seen in the past month in India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Maldives and Bhutan with other countries in the region continuing to fluctuate.

The only country in the region this week to report a substantial increase in new cases has been Sri Lanka reporting 2 046 new cases (96 new cases per 1 million population) compared to 847 new cases (40 new cases per 1 million population) last week. While India is still reporting the highest number of new cases and deaths in the region, trends in these numbers for the country continue to decrease.