Who: novel coronavirus pneumonia confirmed last week increased by more than 1 million 800 thousand cases.

18 novel coronavirus pneumonia novel coronavirus pneumonia weekly report was released on the day of local time. Over 1 million 800 thousand new confirmed cases of pneumonia and 39000 deaths were reported worldwide last week. In the past seven days, an average of 260000 confirmed cases and 5500 deaths per day were added. The Americas region is still the region most affected by the epidemic, accounting for 53% of the new confirmed cases and 75% of the new deaths in the world. The number of new cases in Southeast Asia is still increasing, and it is now the second worst affected region in the world. < / P > < p > from the end of June to August 10, the number of cases in the eastern Mediterranean region decreased, but the number of new cases increased by 10% in the past seven days. Deaths in the Western Pacific region increased significantly, but accounted for only 1% of the new global deaths. The number of confirmed and deaths reported in the African region declined. In Europe, the number of cases increased gradually, and the outbreaks recurred in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. (chief station reporter Zhu He)