New COVID-19 Cases Recently Decreased 78%

The World Health Organization (WHO) Weekly Epidemiological Update #128 overviews the global, regional, and country-level COVID-19 cases and related fatalities.

Epidemiologic trends in recent weeks have been dominated by data from the Western Pacific Region, notably in China.

Globally, nearly 20 million new COVID-19 cases and over 114,000 fatalities were reported in the last 28 days (Jan. 29, 2023), a decrease of 78% and an increase of 65%, respectively, compared to the previous 28 days.

And the Region of the Americas reported about 2.4 new cases in the last 28 days, a 35% decrease compared to the previous period.

Additionally, the CDC COVID Data Tracker continues reporting decreases in cases in the U.S. as of February 3, 2023.

Since the pandemic began in late 2019, over 753 million confirmed cases and over 6.8 million fatalities had been reported by the WHO.