The World Health Organization reported, Thursday, that nearly 4.1 million new infections of COVID-19 were recorded in the past 28 days, between February 13, and March 12, 2023).
The weekly report added that 28,000 deaths caused by the virus were reported.
According to WHO, there was a decrease of 40% and 57%, respectively, compared to the previous 28 days. But, some regions are still seeing a surge in infections due to regional differences.
"As of 12 March 2023, over 760 million confirmed cases and over 6.8 million deaths have been reported globally," it concluded.
Early this month, data showed that the total number of coronavirus cases worldwide exceeded 675 million.
The latest data available on the Johns Hopkins University website showed that the total number of cases reached 675 million and 909 thousand and 696.
The total number of vaccine doses administered around the world has increased to 13 billion, 334 million, 461 thousand and 25 doses.
Noteworthy, there are a number of agencies that provide aggregated data on Coronavirus around the world, and there may be some differences between them.
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