South Korea had the most cases (1,286,028) during the four-week period. It was followed by Australia (22,836), United Kingdom (21,866), Italy (19,777) and Singapore (18,125). South Korea recorded the highest number of deaths (328) from 24 July to 20 August. It was followed by Russia (166), Italy (165), Australia (148) and the Philippines (136).
WHO declared a global health emergency from late January 2020 to May 5, 2023. On March 11, 2020, WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
According to updates on the organization’s website, a total of 769,806,130 cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide with 6,955,497 deaths. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a May 5 briefing in Geneva that the real death toll is at least 20 million.