During each week, the trend of cases reported to WHO tends to peak around Friday.
Geneva, Switzerland:
The World Health Organization’s coronavirus dashboard on Sunday showed a record daily number of new cases of Covid-19 over the weekend.
WHO figures for Saturday showed that 660,905 coronavirus cases were reported to the United Nations health agency, creating a new high watermark.
That number, and the 645,410 recorded on Friday, surpassed the previous daily high of 614,013 recorded on November 7.
Among Saturday’s new cases, the WHO Americas region recorded a one-day record of 269,225 new confirmed cases.
During each week, the trend of cases reported to WHO tends to peak around Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and decrease around Tuesday and Wednesday.
According to WHO figures, there have been more than 53.7 million confirmed cases of the disease in total since the start of the pandemic, while more than 1.3 million people have lost their lives.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Friday that there was “a long way to go” to bring the virus under global control.
The 9,928 deaths reported to WHO on Thursday, 9,567 Friday and 9,924 Saturday marked the first time that more than 9,500 deaths have been recorded on three consecutive days.
Thursday’s toll was the highest since the 10,012 recorded on August 15 and the third-highest one-day toll in the entire pandemic – though those earlier higher figures were apparently due to unusual spikes in reports.
“No country can say that it was sufficiently well prepared for Covid-19, or that it has no lessons to learn,” Tedros said on Friday as he closed the WHO annual meeting, during which member states approved a resolution on strengthening preparedness for health emergencies. .
While welcoming the rapid progress towards a safe and effective vaccine, Tedros nevertheless warned that “we have a long way to go” and insisted that the virus could be contained even without a vaccine breakthrough.
“The world cannot put all of its eggs in one basket and neglect the many other tools at our disposal that … are effective in bringing this virus under control,” he said.
“The virus itself has not changed significantly, and neither have the measures needed to stop it.”
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