{"id":1168581,"date":"2021-12-29T09:04:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168581"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:04:36","slug":"w-h-o-reports-global-coronavirus-cases-jump-11-with-americas-leading-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/w-h-o-reports-global-coronavirus-cases-jump-11-with-americas-leading-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"W.H.O. Reports Global Coronavirus Cases Jump 11% with Americas Leading the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fw-h-o-reports-global-coronavirus-cases-jump-11-with-americas-leading-the-way%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168581&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-cases-jump-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported late Tuesday the number of global coronavirus cases jumped by 11 percent over the last seven days compared to the previous week, with the biggest increase in the Americas. The gain builds on a gradual increase since October.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. health agency delivered an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/m\/item\/weekly-epidemiological-update-on-covid-19---28-december-2021\">overview<\/a> stating some 4.99 million newly reported cases around the world from Dec. 20-26.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">Europe accounted for more than half the total, with 2.84 million, though that amounted to barely a three percent increase over the previous week. It also had the highest infection rate of any region, with 304.6 new cases per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">The Chinese Communist government on Monday also admitted to its worst coronavirus case numbers in over 20 months, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/28\/china-admits-worst-coronavirus-situation-since-2020-genocide-olympics-approach\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">The governing regime acknowledged 200 new coronavirus infections, 150 of them in Xi\u2019an, a provincial capital with a population of 13 million that has been under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/china-orders-lockdown-of-up-to-13-million-people-in-xian\/\">strict lockdown<\/a>&nbsp;for the past week. Xi\u2019an has now&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1243556.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">logged<\/a>&nbsp;a total of 810 cases, including a 38-day-old infant boy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">W.H.O. said new cases elsewhere in the Americas rose 39 percent to nearly 1.48 million, and the region had the second-highest infection rate with 144.4 new cases per 100,000 residents. The U.S. alone saw more than 1.18 million cases, a 34 percent increase, even as nation-wide vaccination programs remain in full swing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OLEYqoWMol\">https:\/\/t.co\/OLEYqoWMol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1419269769535148033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">The seven-day average of U.S. cases topped 267,000 on Tuesday, with Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia particularly hard hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">Meanwhile the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-59810713\">reports<\/a> in Europe:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Infections in Italy topped 78,000 cases, hitting a new record since the start of the pandemic. It also recorded 202 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 136,753<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-17j9f6r-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Portugal also recorded a new total of 17,172 cases on Tuesday, a rise on Monday\u2019s total<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s Health Minister, Thanos Plevris, called for calm after the country reported 21,657 cases<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus also recorded a single-day record high of infections, with 2,241 new cases<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Health authorities in England reported a record 117,093 cases. Full UK-wide coronavirus data has been unavailable over the Christmas period<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The agency said \u201cthe overall risk related to the new variant \u2026 omicron remains very high.\u201d It cited \u201cconsistent evidence\u201d that it has a growth advantage over the delta variant, which remains dominant in parts of the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">As of 26 December, over 278 million cases and just under 5.4 million deaths have been reported globally as restrictions return in many countries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">European Countries Bring Back Mandatory Outdoor Mask Wearing As Covid Cases Surge<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ei1RpMntZl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ei1RpMntZl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1474394463640293378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">It noted a decline in case incidence has been seen in South Africa, and that early data from that country, the U.K. and Denmark suggest a reduced risk of hospitalization with omicron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\">But it cautioned more data is needed \u201cto understand the clinical markers of severity including the use of oxygen, mechanical ventilation and death, and how severity may be impacted by vaccination and\/or prior \u2026 infection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-209 Component-p-0-2-200\"><em>AP contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported late Tuesday the number of global coronavirus cases jumped by 11 percent over the last seven days compared to the previous week, with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}