Paris: The total number of Covid-19 is registered throughout the world since the start of Pandemia reached 300 million on Friday, according to AFP’s total based on official figures.
That number reached 300,042,439 cases at 15:45 GMT, including all cases announced since the World Health Organization Office in China first reported the outbreak of disease at the end of December 2019.
The case number has increased since the end of last year because the Omicron variant spread rapidly, was first identified in Botswana and South Africa.
When Omicron brings the fourth wave of Coronavirus pandemic, many countries report the number of infections.
More than 13.5 million cases of viruses have been detected throughout the world in the past week, a massive increase of 64 percent over the previous seven days, on average at 1,938,395 new infections per day.
34 countries have seen the number of weekly cases. Eighteen of them were in Europe, seven in Africa and six in Latin America and the Caribbean.
US and Canada have also seen record numbers, as Australia has.
Europe has been devastated by a new variant with Cyprus registering 3,468 cases per 100,000 population over the past seven days while the level for Ireland is 2,840. In Greece, the tariff is 2,415 while the numbers for Denmark are 2,362 and France 2,137.
In 12th position on the list of events recently Australia, with 1,361 cases per 100,000 people during the past week.
But the acceleration of Covid spread has not been, so far, translates into an increase in mortality.
Even the average daily global death for the past seven days, 6,172, was a three percent decline in the previous week.
A month after it was first detected in South Africa, Omicron is now known far more contagious than the previous variant of Covid-19 but seems to cause disease that is less severe than its predecessor.
The numbers collected by AFP are based on daily reports from the National Health Authority.
Significant proportions of cases that are less severe or asymptomatic remain undetected despite intensive screening in many countries.
In addition, testing policies are different from one country to country.