World seeing record surge in new Covid cases, weekly tally up by 11% since last week: WHO

Europe accounted for more than half the total, with 2.84 million, though that amounted to only a 3% increase over the previous week.

The World Health Organization says the number of COVID-19 cases recorded worldwide increased by 11% last week compared with the previous week, with the biggest increase in the Americas. The gain followed a gradual increase since October.

The U.N. health agency said in its weekly epidemiological report released late Tuesday that there were nearly 4.99 million newly reported cases around the world from December 20-26.