SITUATION IN NUMBERS total (new) cases in last 24 hours
(last updated 10:00 AM CET 6/1/2020)
Globally 6,057,853 cases (122,917)
367,166 deaths (4,461)
Western Pacific Region 183,198 cases (1,533)
7,037 deaths (9)
European Region 2,159,791 cases (17,244)
180,594 deaths (509)
South-East Asia Region 272,512 cases (11,933)
7,743 deaths (312)
Eastern Mediterranean Region 520,137 cases (15,136)
12,627 deaths (274)
Region of the Americas 2,817,232 cases (73,439)
160,514 deaths (2,812)
African Region 104,242 cases (3,632)
2,638 deaths (84
Highlights
- WHO has published a case report form for suspected cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID-19
- During the last two weeks, WHO has delivered over 55 tons of health supplies by road to northeast Syria. These shipments contained equipment and medical supplies to treat
many diseases, including COVID-19. - “Clean hands save lives” and “Applaud healthcare workers” campaigns celebrated in North Macedonia. Midwives and nurses were honored with applause, as over 500 healthcare professionals were awarded the “Clean hands” certificate of recognition by WHO.
- Since the start of the pandemic, there has been an urgent need to accelerate the research and development of COVID-19 candidate vaccines. WHO has been supporting this effort. Currently over 120 candidate vaccines have been mapped and sites in 40 countries have expressed an interest to join the Vaccine Solidarity Trial. For more on this, see the ‘Subject in Focus’ below.