Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Weekly update.

Reported cases are slightly growing again worldwide, +2.1% week over week, another 1.8 million cases added last week.
Reported deaths also grew a bit again, 40,626 last week vs 40,455 the week before (39,886 the week before that).

The USA is still in decline yet less than last week, -3.6% week over week, 379K new cases last week.
Reported deaths is pretty much the same as last week, 7,387 vs 7,331 the week before (7,677 the week before that)

Europe keeps growing but a little less than last week, +7.4% week over week, 144K new cases last week.
Reported deaths is pretty much the same as last week, 2,256 vs 2,288 the week before (2,351 the week before that)

Not much change, carrying on like last week.

Asia now leads in daily reported cases, +10% week over week.
South America is close behind with slight growth, +1.7% week over week.
North America in third with slight decline, -4.0% week over week.
Europe slightly growing at +7.4% week over week.
Africa is declining at -21% week over week thanks to South Africa dropping rapidly.
Oceania is also going back down, Australia is back in control.


Japan and Australia both managed to flatten their new waves, however both ended up higher than their previous waves.
Australia's reported deaths is already almost 3x higher than from their first wave, Japan seems to have a less lethal wave this time.
Canada pretty much remains on the same level, Iran had a dip but went right back to its previous level.
South Africa is making good progress, it also looks like their reported deaths have peaked for now.
South Korea got a new outbreak to deal with while China is still busy suppressing their latest one.

The big ones:
India is on top for reported cases, averaging 62K daily with 6,556 deaths last week (vs 6,027 the week before)
USA is in second, averaging 54K daily with 7,387 deaths last week (vs 7,331 the week before)
Brazil is in third, averaging 44K daily with 6,869 deaths last week (vs 7,134 the week before)

Europe (Sweden back but lagging a week behind)

Spain had some major corrections making it look like a peak but more likely the result of adding and now removing anti body test results.
It looks like all are still climbing up into a second wave, some faster than others yet all a lot slower than into the first wave.

For summer, the easy time to deal with the virus, we're not making any progress :/