From December 11, 2023 to January 7, 2024, more than 1.1 million new cases of Covid-19 were reported worldwide, an increase of 4% over the previous 28-day period.
The data was published this Monday by the World Health Organization (WHO), which states that between December 11, 2023 and January 7, 2024, 8,700 new deaths from Covid-19 were recorded worldwide, a 26% decrease compared with the previous 28 years. daytime period from November 13 to December 10, 2023.
The WHO notes that the data is underestimated because not all countries report information, and the testing strategy to detect new infections has changed.
Between 11 December 2023 and 7 January 2024, WHO recorded more than 173,000 new hospitalizations and more than 1,900 new intensive care unit admissions, up 40% and 13% respectively compared to the 28 days preceding this period. .
From the start of the Covid-19 pandemic until January 7, more than 774 million cases and more than seven million deaths were reported to WHO.
Covid-19 is a pandemic respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, originally discovered in 2019 in China and has several variants and subvariants, some more contagious than others.