The World Health Organisation, known as WHO, shared some news on Tuesday, July 21, 2024. They told us that since COVID-19 started, over 775 million people have caught the virus, and more than seven million people have died because of it. This message came from Abuja.
Between June 24 and July 21, the number of new COVID-19 cases went up by 30%, and the number of deaths went up by 26%. This is more than in the previous 28 days (from May 27 to June 23), where there were about 186,000 new cases in 96 countries and over 2,800 new deaths in 35 countries.
By July 21, 2024, over 775 million confirmed cases and over seven million deaths had been reported worldwide since the coronavirus pandemic began.
In that same time, 46 countries gave information on how many people went to the hospital because of COVID-19, and 35 countries shared how many went to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
From these countries, more than 23,000 new hospital admissions were reported, and over 600 new ICU admissions were noted. Countries that shared this data regularly showed an 11% increase in new hospitalizations and a 3% increase in new ICU admissions when looking at the current and previous periods.