PARIS: The pandemic continued to accelerate this week, especially in Europe and Asia, as a highly contagious new strain of the virus was identified in South Africa. The continent saw new cases double this week, although the figure was affected by a big upward revision of data in South Africa. Only in the United States and Canada (minus 12 percent), and the Middle East (minus four percent) did the number of cases decline. Otherwise, Europe was at the epicentre with cases increasing by 75 percent in France, 51 percent in Spain, 49 percent in Sweden, 46 percent in Switzerland and 45 percent in Belgium. US still has most casesThe US remained by far the country with the biggest number of new cases, with 85,762 per day.

Source: Libya Today November 27, 2021 06:20 UTC