In April, new cases never exceeded 100,000 in one day, but since May 21, there have been fewer than 100,000 in five days, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. New cases reported peaked at 130,400 on June 3.
Epidemics of different nations have followed different trajectories. The number of new cases has slowed in many countries that were hit hard earlier in the pandemic, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and France.
But in many countries, especially South America, the Middle East and Africa, the rate of transmission still seems to be accelerating, according to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.
In Libya, Iraq, Uganda, Mozambique and Haiti, the data show that the number of known cases doubles every week. In Brazil, India, Chile, Colombia and South Africa, cases double every two weeks.
"The Americas continue to represent the highest number of cases. For several weeks, the number of cases reported every day in the Americas has exceeded the rest of the world," said the director general of the World Health Organization on Wednesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. .
"We are particularly concerned about Central America and South America, where many countries are experiencing accelerating epidemics."
Dr Mike Ryan, WHO Executive Director of the Health Emergencies Program, said he did not think that Central and South America had reached their peak of transmission.
The share of deaths worldwide also continues to increase in South America and the Caribbean.
Brazil registered more than 30,000 new cases on Thursday, bringing the total to nearly 615,000, as well as 1,473 new deaths, bringing its total number of deaths to more than 34,000.
Its number of cases comes just behind the United States, where just under 1.9 million cases have been reported and 108,211 deaths. At its peak, the United States saw an increase of more than 30,000 new cases per day; As of Friday, it had approximately 21,000 new cases and 942 daily deaths per day on an average of seven days.
A number of countries that have surpassed their initial peaks - such as South Korea, Germany and China - have since seen new clusters of infections after traffic restrictions were relaxed, raising concerns about a second wave .
Authorities in 214 countries and territories have reported around 6.6 million cases of Covid-19 and 391,000 deaths since China reported its first cases to WHO in December.
The true toll of the virus is probably worse than the numbers show, as mild or asymptomatic infections are often not diagnosed.
