Despite the decline in coronavirus cases in the past week, India has still the highest number of fresh infections around the world, the World Health Organisation said. India registered a 13% decrease (2,387,663 new cases) in new Covid-19 cases in the past one week, according to the Covid-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update Data received by the WHO from national authorities as of May 16. This was followed by Brazil (437,076 new cases; 3 per cent increase), the United States of America (235,638 new cases; 21 per cent decrease), Argentina (151,332 new cases; 8 per cent increase) and Colombia (115,834 new cases; 6 per cent increase), the WHO's report added. All regions reported a decline in new cases this week apart from the Western Pacific Region, where the incidence of new cases was similar to the previous week. The European Region reported the largest decline in new cases this week, followed by the Eastern Mediterranean.

Source: Mint May 19, 2021 06:00 UTC