The World Health Organization (WHO) affirmed today, Wednesday that more than 93 thousand people died of the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) around the world throughout the last week.
The United Nations organization warns that the toll of death over the last seven days rose by 6% compared with the previous week.
The weekly bulletin issued by the WHO indicated that the number of infections with the deadly virus rose by 5.7 million which is the same number approximately of the last week.
The spread of COVID-19 across the planet is still at the highest level for the second week in a row.
Southeast Asia region which includes India had registered an increase in infections by 19%, meanwhile, the number of infections declined by about 22% and Africa also registered another reduction in infections by 15%.
The number of infections in the region of the eastern Mediterranean Sea retreated by 14% and in North and South Americas, infections ebbed by 5%.
The death toll of COVID-19 leaped by 48% in the Southeast Asia region but that toll declined in Africa by 13%, in Europe by 12%, and in the west of the Pacific Ocean by 3%.
Over the last seven days, more than 1.16 million people contracted the COVID-19 and some 33 thousand people died due to the virus.
In the two Americas, more than 1.3 million confirmed cases were registered along with 36 thousand deaths.
In Southeast Asia, about 2.7 million cases were registered there in addition to 25 thousand deaths.
Within a week only, the number of infected people with COVID-19 in India rose by 2.59 million.
Brazil follows India directly in the number of infections, where 421 thousand infections were registered, meanwhile, the United States of America registered 345 new infections.
Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on April 26, that the situation in India is "sad" due to the COVID-19 infections.
He added that the organization has sent more health workers and supplies to help fight the pandemic.
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