WHO新冠流行周报(2022年5月4日)：全球新冠感染与死亡人数延续下降趋势

自2022年3月底以来，全球新冠感染人数与死亡人数呈持续下降趋势。在过去一周（4月25日至5月1日），纳入WHO监测的六个区域中，累计报道新冠感染者超过380万，新报道新冠死亡案例15,000例。与上一周相比，本周的感染人数和死亡人数环比分别下降17%和3%。但是，确诊患者在美洲（13%）和非洲地区（31%）呈现了上升的势头。主要源于印度死亡报告数据的滞后，导致上周报告的东南亚新冠死亡人数环比上升69%。

截止2022年5月1日，全球累计报道新冠确诊感染患者5亿人次，全球累计死亡人数600万。

在本期周报中，我们更新了循环SARS-CoV-2 VOCs信息。

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Globally, the number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths has continued to decline since the end of March 2022.

During the week of 25 April through 1 May 2022, over 3.8 million cases and over 15 000 deaths were reported, decreases of 17% and 3% respectively, as compared to the previous week. However, an increase in the number of new weekly cases was reported from the African Region (+31%) and the Region of the Americas (+13%), and the number of new weekly deaths increased in the South-East Asia Region (+69%) largely due to a delay in the reporting of deaths from India.

As of 1 May 2022, over 500 million confirmed cases and over six million deaths have been reported globally.

In this edition, we provide updates on circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs).