The World Health Organization announced on Tuesday evening that the level of COVID-19 cases worldwide had increased by 11% from the previous week, citing an increased risk associated with the omicron variant.

In a weekly epidemiological report released by the WHO, the United Nations health agency said that while coronavirus cases around the world increased by 11%, the Americas saw a 39% increase in cases, with over 1.4 million new cases, marking the "largest increase" around the world, the Associated Press reported. The data show cases reported between Dec. 20-26.

"The Region of the Americas reported the largest increase in new cases in the last week (39%), followed by the African Region, which reported an increase of 7%," the WHO said.

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The WHO continued on to say that while the Americas and African Region saw an increase in COVID cases, with the African Region reporting over 274,000 cases, the South-East Asia Region reporting a 12% decrease in cases from the previous week. The European, Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Pacific Regions reported seeing similar cases compared to the following week.

Additionally, the WHO cited an increase associated with the omicron variant cases.

"The overall risk related to the new variant of concern Omicron remains very high," the report said. "Consistent evidence shows that the Omicron variant has a growth advantage over the Delta variant with a doubling time of 2-3 days and rapid increases in the incidence of cases is seen in a number of countries, including those where the variant has become the dominant SARS-CoV-2 variant."

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Worldwide there were 4,985,093 new cases related to the coronavirus reported within the past seven days, according to the WHO's report.

The number of deaths associated with coronavirus was reported to have been down by 4%, according to the data. Within the past seven days, there were a reported number of 44,680 new coronavirus-related deaths, with a total of 5,393,950 deaths worldwide.