WHO recently pointed out that since late August, new confirmed cases and deaths around the world have shown a continuous downward trend. According to the latest weekly report on the epidemic released by WHO on October 19, in the past week (October 11 to October 17, there have been more than 270 new confirmed cases and 4.6 thousand new deaths worldwide, down 4% and 2% respectively from the previous week. Among them, the largest decline is in the WHO Africa region. Compared with the previous week, the number of confirmed cases and deaths in the African region showed a decrease of 18% and 25%, respectively.