PANDEMIC: The global rise and fall of the virus spread in numbers Search for: The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated this week in most parts of the world except for Latin America with India and Brazil leading to death count, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Following the case in numbers from AFP which records the most important weekly developments, based on a database it maintains. Less than 400,000 daily cases With 377,000 infections reported daily worldwide this week, the index is up slightly (+ 2% compared to last week), according to an AFP report, until yesterday. The index is showing an acceleration of the virus for the first time since the end of April, when it had reached its record (816,800 new cases per day).