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SvennoJ on 12 December 2020
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Weekly update.

There was a correction in the reported cases totals for Asia this week making it look like a huge increase. However without the correction the cases are still up yet again, worldwide. In Europe it seems some countries (UK, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark) are celebrating the vaccine approvals a bit too soon.

Worldwide the tally went up by 5.21 million last week (up from 4.24 million) without corrections 4.37 million new cases were added, to a total of 71.4 million. 76,833 new deaths were also reported (slightly up from 75,263) to a total of 1,600,389

The USA is still a bit less regular in reporting yet stays ahead of Europe. Europe is pretty much flat this week, no progress.

The continents

North America reported 1.68 million new cases (up from 1.46 million) and 22,664 more deaths (up from 19,512)
Europe reported 1.38 million new cases (up from 1.36 million) and 33,264 more deaths (down from 34,309)
Asia's total went up by 1.61 million of which 816K new cases (down from 878K) and 10,833 more deaths (down from 11,750)
South America reported 430K new cases (down from 446K) and 7,691 more deaths (same as last week 7,672)
Africa reported 110K new cases (up from 97.9K) and 2,368 more deaths (up from 2,013)
Oceania reported 646 new cases (down from 1,143) and 13 deaths


Corners of the world

USA reported 1.52 million new cases (up from 1.32 million) and 17,200 more deaths (up from 14,521)
Brazil reported 301K new cases (up from 297K) and 4,472 more deaths (up from 3,983)
India reported 219K new cases (down from 257K) and 2,926 more deaths down from 3,498)
Iran reported 75.6K new cases (down from 94.4K) and 2,032 more deaths (down from 2,600)

Canada reported 46.3K new cases (up from 43.5K) and 755 deaths (602 last week)
South Africa reported 39.3K new cases (up from 23.9K) and 989 deaths (585 last week)
Japan reported 16.3K new cases (up from 15.7K) and 262 deaths (189 last week)
South Korea reported 4.45K new cases (up from 3.45K) and 36 deaths (20 last week)
Australia reported 62 new cases, no deaths


Europe in detail

Germany, UK, the Netherlands and especially Denmark have all gone back to increasing their cases.
The rest is in no hurry to reduce the spread either, Europe is going up again.

Is this the immediate effect from the news about vaccines being ready? Or simply not enough measures plus holiday season and cold weather.