Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Weekly update. Cases are slowly going down in most of the world, except Europe and Oceania that still see growth.


In total 2.93 million cases were reported last week (slightly down from 3.17 million) to a total of 237,974,271
Also another 51,714 more deaths were reported (down from 54,584) to a total of 4,856,813

The USA is trending down, Europe trending up

The continents

Europe reported 977K new cases (up from 863K) and 15,032 more deaths (up from 12,749)
Asia reported 894K new cases (down from 1.04 million) and 11,483 more deaths (down from 14,394)
North America reported 837K new cases (down from 956K) and 18,818 more deaths (slightly down from 18,929)
South America reported 156K new cases (down from 168K) and 4,292 more deaths (down from 4,920)
Africa reported 51.8K new cases (down from 105K) and 1,894 more deaths (down from 3,356)
Oceania reported 19.3K new cases (up from 17.0K) and 195 deaths (236 last week)

Corners of the world

USA reported 692K new cases (down from 774K) and 13,493 more deaths (slightly down from 13,691)
India reported 145K new cases (down from 166K) and 1,803 more deaths (slightly down from 1,915)
Brazil reported 105K new cases (down from 118K) and 3,201 more deaths (down from 3,594)
Iran reported 82.4K new cases (down from 92.7K) and 1,534 more deaths (down from 1,871)
Canada reported 26.2K new cases (down from 30.3K) and 265 deaths (301 last week)
Australia reported 15.4K new cases (up from 13.2K) and 96 deaths (101 last week)
South Korea reported 14.2K new cases (down from 18.6K) and 57 deaths (67 last week)
Japan reported 7,393 new cases (down from 13.9K) and 208 deaths (273 last week)
South Africa reported 6,374 new cases (down from 9,965) and 531 deaths (738 last week)

Europe in detail

Most are increasing again.

Global vaccination rate is now 34.66% (+0.98%)

Europe 53.12%
North America 48.04%
South America 43.14%
Asia 38.03%
Oceania 36.23%
Africa 4.62%