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The World Health Organisation recently released its weekly assessment of the pandemic released on Wednesday (August 3), according to which the new coronavirus cases fell by 9 per cent globally last week but the deaths remained steady. As per the report, 6.5 million virus cases and more than 14,000 fatalities were reported in the previous week. The US, South Korea, and Germany reported the highest numbers of new coronavirus cases. The United States reported the highest number of deaths.

In its weekly assessment of the pandemic issued on Thursday, the UN health agency said there were 8,700 COVID-19 deaths last week, with a 21% jump in the Americas and a 17% increase in the Western Pacific.

World Health Organisation Sunday said 33 countries have reported 650 probable cases of mysterious acute hepatitis among children adding out of the probable cases, at least 38 (6 per cent) have required transplants, and nine (1 per cent) deaths have been reported.

"Almost 25,600 deaths have taken place and each of them has been counted. In Delhi, the data has not been fudged even for a single death," said Jain.

No Covid-19 death data fudged in Delhi, says Minister Satyendar Jain amid row over WHO report - Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the WHO report and said