Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, July 30 (Reporter Chen Binjie and Chen Junxia) World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the 30th that nearly 4 million new cases of new crown were newly diagnosed worldwide in the past week. According to current trends, it is expected that the number of confirmed cases worldwide will be accumulated in the next two weeks. There will be more than 200 million cases.
Tedros said at a regular press conference in Geneva that day that in the past four weeks, among the six regions of the world divided by WHO, the number of newly diagnosed cases in five regions has increased by 80%; during the same period, Africa The number of new deaths in the region has risen by 80%.
Tan Desai said that the rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths is largely caused by the highly infectious mutated new coronavirus delta strain. At present, cases of Delta strain infection have been reported in 132 countries and regions around the world. In addition, increasing population movements, inconsistent epidemic prevention measures, and unbalanced vaccine distribution have also contributed to the intensification of the epidemic.
Tan Desai said that the WHO's goal is still to vaccinate at least 10% of the population of each country against the new crown by September this year. The vaccination rate will reach at least 40% by the end of this year and at least 70% by the middle of next year. %. But in order to achieve the above goals, "there is still a long way to go."
According to WHO data, as of now, only slightly more than half of the countries have a coverage rate of 10% for the new crown vaccine, less than a quarter of countries have a coverage rate of 40%, and only three countries have a coverage rate of 70%. At the same time, the number of new crown vaccines on the African continent has been less than 2% of the total number of vaccinations in the world, and only 1.5% of the African population has completed the vaccination.