with COVID cases surge Globally, an astonishing country has more new coronavirus infections every day than anywhere else in the world.
according to World Health OrganizationAccording to reports, as of the week of July 18, Indonesia is the country with the largest number of new COVID-19 infections in the world NBC Finance Channel.
According to the WHO’s epidemiological update on Tuesday, from July 12 to 18, Indonesia reported more than 350,273 new virus cases, an increase of 44% from the previous week. The United Kingdom, Brazil, India and the United States followed closely behind, each entering the top five.
Globally, 3.4 million new COVID-19 cases were reported in the same time frame Virus cases surge WHO data shows that in many parts of the world.
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world, with more than 2.9 million positive cases of the virus confirmed and more than 77,500 COVID-19 deaths. Johns Hopkins University Data Display.
However, in terms of the total number of COVID infections, Indonesia lags behind the United States, India and 11 countries.Number one in the U.S. More than 34.2 million virus-positive casesAccording to data from Johns Hopkins University, there are more than 609,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Although the number of new coronary pneumonia cases in Indonesia has decreased in recent days, a public health expert said that the number of deaths in the country will continue to rise in the coming days.
Ben Cowling, a professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong, told CNBC that “due to the lag between confirmed cases and mortality, the death toll may continue to rise in the next two to three weeks.”
According to reports, as of July 20, 15.49% of Indonesian citizens had at least one dose of COVID vaccine. Our data worldThe website states that approximately 6% of people have been vaccinated.
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