Medical staff in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Marseille GENEVA, Jan 6, Elizaveta Isakova. The global COVID-19 infection rate has increased by 71% in a week, said Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the technical team at the World Health Organization's Emergency Diseases Unit. infections in the past seven days increased by 71%. It differs depending on the region. In the US, an increase of 100%, in the African region, an increase of about 7%, «Van Kerkhove said at a briefing. According to her, over the past week, WHO received data on 9.5 million cases of COVID-19, although the real data may be much higher. reported about 2.2 million infections. 
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