Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 - 4 May 2022
Edition 90
Overview
Globally,
the number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths has continued to decline since the
end of March 2022.
During
the week of 25 April through 1 May 2022, over 3.8 million cases and over 15 000 deaths were reported,
decreases of 17% and 3% respectively, as compared to the previous week.
However, an increase in the number of new weekly cases was reported from the
African Region (+31%) and the Region of the Americas (+13%), and the number of
new weekly deaths increased in the South-East Asia Region (+69%) largely due to
a delay in the reporting of deaths from India.
As
of 1 May 2022, over 500 million confirmed cases and over six million deaths
have been reported globally.
In this edition, we provide updates on circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs).