Risk Assessment Report – 9 November 2020

Worldwide, there have been over 50.5 million cases and more than 1.25 million deaths attributed to COVID-19. Europe, with

12.6 million confirmed cases for more than 305,700 deaths, has once again become the epicentre of the pandemic. Last

week, out of the more than 3.9 million new cases recorded in the world, more than half (2.1 million) were in the 52 countries

of the European continent. In the last seven days, the European countries that registered the largest number of new infections

were France with 381,000 new cases, Italy (223,000), the United Kingdom (160,000), Poland (159,000) and Spain (143,000). After

Europe, the worst-hit regions are Latin America and the Caribbean with 11.6 million infections and 411,700 deaths and Asia

with 11 million cases and nearly 177,000 deaths. Next is the United States and Canada with 10.1 million cases and 247,000

deaths, the Middle East (2.7 million cases and 64,500 deaths, Africa (1.9 million cases and 44,800 deaths) and Oceania with

nearly 30,000 infections and 941 deaths.