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COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological situation Report: WHO

December 12, 2020

The Global incidence of new cases remained very similar to the previous week with just under 4 million new cases reported in the past seven days, while new deaths, globally, increased slightly to over 73,000 new deaths reported. New cases and deaths in the region of Americas account for nearly half of all new cases and over one third of all new deaths this week. While new cases remain high in the European region, new deaths have decreased for a second week. New cases declined in South-East Asia and Eastern Mediterranean
regions this week. Deaths decreased in the Eastern Mediterranean region and increased in the South-East Asia Region.

In the African region, while both new cases and deaths remain low compared to other regions, there was an increase of 9% in new cases. New deaths have remained stable over the past few weeks. In the Western Pacific region, cases showed a small decline overall while new deaths increased slightly this week.

Situation by WHO Region

In the past seven days, over 53,000 new cases were reported in the African region, a 9% increase compared to the previous week, while deaths remained similar to last week�s at just under 1,000 new reported deaths. South Africa continues to account for the greatest proportion (48%) of new weekly cases in the region. In the past seven days, the highest number of new cases was reported from South Africa (25,310 new cases, 427 new cases per 1 million population), Algeria (6,290 new cases, 143 new cases per 1 million population), Kenya (5,379 new cases, 100 per 1 million population), Ethiopia (3,810 new cases, 33 new cases per 1 million population) and Uganda (2,244 new cases, 49 per 1 million population).

South-East Asia Region

In the South-East Asian region, new cases reported last week declined 10% compared to the previous week (3,32,396 new cases, 164 new cases per 1 million population), although new weekly deaths showed a slight increase of 2% compared to the previous week (5,004 new deaths, 2 new deaths per 1 million population). The trends in cases and deaths are still largely driven by India, which reported 76% and 70% of new weekly cases and deaths respectively in the region. A decrease in new weekly cases was reported in India, Nepal and the Maldives, whereas an increase was reported from Bhutan, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The highest number of new cases were reported from India (2,51,303 new cases, 182 new cases per 1 million), Indonesia (41,708 new cases, 152 new cases per 1 million) and Bangladesh (15,260 new cases, 93
new cases per 1 million).

In Nepal, over 9,000 new cases (314 per 1 million population) were reported in the past week, a significant decrease of 24% compared to the previous week. In Bangladesh, new weekly cases and deaths remained at similar levels as the previous week, with over 15,000 new cases (93 new cases per 1 million population) and 227 new deaths (1 death per 1 million population) reported in this week.