Global Covid cases surge 9% in a week | News24

The number of new daily coronavirus cases increased sharply by nine percent globally to 517 600, according to an AFP tally to Thursday.Infections rocketed by a third in the US alone and were up nine percent in Europe.

In Spain and Denmark cases were up by 54 percent, and they were also up by slightly more than a half in Portugal.The Czech Republic saw a 38 percent rise, followed by Germany and Austria , which is going back into partial lockdown on Monday. On a per capita basis the country that recorded the most new cases this week was Slovenia with 1 107 cases per 100 000 habitants followed by Austria and Croatia .The US also had the highest number of deaths, with an average of 1 281 a day, ahead of Russia with 1 235 and Ukraine 664.

Cuba again tops the global table for the fastest vaccination roll-out this week, jabbing 1.39 percent of its population every day.

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