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Updated Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan . The new dashboard will progressively incorporate more 
components throughout 2024.  The previous link of the Global WHO Coronavirus (COVID -19) Dashboard will 
still be active and redirect users  to the new one from 22 December onward. Please note that start time of 
the redirection can differ around the world by up to 24 hours.  
 
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For t he latest data and other updates on COVID -19, please see:  
• WHO Monthly Operational Update  and past editions of the Weekly  Epidemiological Update on COVID -19 
• WHO COVID -19 detailed surveillance data dashboard   
• WHO COVID -19 policy briefs   
• COVID -19 surveillance reporting requirements update for Member States  
• Summary  Tables  of COVID -19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) studies and results (last updated 11 January 
2024)  
• Forest Plots  displaying results of COVID -19 VE studies (last updated 15 January 2024)  
• Special focus WEU on interpreting relative VE  (29 June 2022, pages 6 -8) 
• Neutralizat ion p lots (last updated 15 January 2024)  
• WHO COVID -19 VE Resources  
 
 
Global overview  
 
Data  as of 7 January  2024 
Globally, the number of new weekly cases remained stable during the 28 -day period of 11 December 2023 to 7 
January 2024 as compared to the previous 28 -day period, with over 1.1 million new cases reported (Figure 1, 
Table 1). The number of new weekly deaths  decreased by 26% as compared to the previous 28 -day period, with 
8700  new fatalities