The overall number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the globe has exceeded 326 million and the number of fatalities has reached 5.53 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported.
Globally, as of 10:35 AM in Washington, DC, January 2022, there have been 326,279,424 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 5,536,609 coronavirus-associated deaths worldwide.
According to the WHO report, the number of confirmed cases grew by 2,669,054 over the past day and the number of fatalities increased by 6,916.
The WHO data confirms that the Europe and Americas remain the most affected regions. While, the highest number of COVID-19 confirmed cases was reported from the United States (64,720,612), India (37,380,253), Brazil (22,975,723), the United Kingdom (15,217,284), France (13,819,182), Russia (10,834,260), Turkey (10,456,273), Italy (8,706,915), Germany (8,000,122), Spain (7,930,529), Argentina (7,094,865), and Iran (6,221,033).
According to the WHO statistics, the highest number of deaths was reported from the United States (843,718), Brazil (620,971), India (486,451), Russia (321,990), and Mexico (301,334).
Earlier on January 13, Director-General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus while addressing the 10th meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on COVID-19 stated: “Last week, more than 15 million new cases of COVID-19 were reported to WHO from around the world – by far the most cases reported in a single week – and we know this is an underestimate.”
Dr. Tedros stressed that although more than 9.4 billion vaccine doses have been administered globally, “90 countries did not reach the target of vaccinating 40% of their populations by the end of last year, and 36 of those countries have not yet vaccinated 10% of their populations.”
“More than 85% of the population of Africa – about one billion people – is yet to receive a single dose of vaccine,” Dr. Tedros added.
The WHO director-general said that “while vaccines remain very effective at preventing severe disease and death, they do not fully prevent transmission.”
