SITUATION IN NUMBERS total (new) cases in last 24 hours 

(last updated 10:00 AM CET 7/24/2020)

 

Globally 15,296,926 cases (284,196)
628,903 deaths (9,753)
Africa 659,348 cases (16,962)
11,001 deaths (212)
Americas 8,121,700 cases (173,187)
325,625 deaths (7,663)
Eastern Mediterranean 1,442,346 cases (13,262)
36,600 deaths (482)
Europe 3,170,382 cases (22,522)
209,421 deaths (451)
South-East Asia 1,625,564 cases (54,247)
38,111 deaths (908)
Western Pacific 276,845 cases (4,016)
8,132 deaths (37)
Highlights
    • Dr Tedros, in his media briefing yesterday, reminded people not to let their guard down ‘we will
      not be going back to the “old normal”. The pandemic has already changed the way we live our
      lives. Part of adjusting to the “new normal” is finding ways to live our lives safely.’
    • As the possibility of a protracted pandemic becomes increasingly likely, countries are
      encouraged to conduct periodic reviews of their national and subnational COVID-19 response.
      This ensures that countries do not miss critical opportunities for learning and improvement to
      better respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. WHO has produced guidance to assist in this
      exercise.
    • At the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held between 7–16 July
      2020 all countries expressed their support for the SDGs and discussed response measures to
      help mitigate the negative effects of COVID-19.
    • Ouagadougou: WHO is tackling COVID-19 fear and stigma in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where
      both patients and health workers have been shunned by their communities.
    • For Somalis, COVID-19 is the most immediate crisis in a seemingly unending cycle of floods,
      food insecurity, conflict and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, cholera
      and polio. Against this backdrop, WHO’s polio programme is working to steer the COVID-19
      response and, more broadly, maintain vaccine immunity levels and improve access to health
      care.