Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

^ Kinda proves how tourism keeps fueling the pandemic... Essential travel...

Weekly update, Omicron has taken hold of the rest of the world, how high will it go :/ It does look like the UK is on the way down, not just capped by testing. South Africa peaked in reported deaths, those are going down now as well. Many countries are still just starting though.


In total 20.5 million new cases were reported last week (up from 15.2 million) to a total of 324,184,080
Also another 50,241 more deaths were reported (up from 44,488) to a total of 5,547,401

Europe is climbing more slowly, part test constrained plus a couple countries are past the peak, deaths are now starting to rise.
USA is also climbing a bit slower, deaths are going up.

The continents

Europe reported 7.98 million new cases (up from 6.84 million) and 20,914 more deaths (slightly up from 20,241)
North America reported 6.41 million new cases (up from 5.28 million) and 15,765 more deaths (up from 12,715)
Asia reported 3.15 million new cases (up from 1.46 million) and 7,687 more deaths (slightly up from 7,212)
South America reported 1.91 million new cases (up from 930K) and 3,275 more deaths (up from 2,100)
Oceania reported 779K new cases (up from 371K) and 237 deaths (87 last week)
Africa reported 292K new cases (down from 324K) and 2,318 more deaths (slightly down from 2,403)

Corners of the world

USA reported 5.75 million new cases (up from 4.77 million) and 13,740 more deaths (up from 11,441)
India reported 1.48 million new cases (up from 508K) and 2,317 more deaths (slightly up from 2,228)
Australia reported 775K new cases (up from 366K) and 259 deaths (80 last week)
Brazil reported 477K new cases (up from 163K) and 969 deaths (769 last week)
Canada reported 236K new cases (down from 299K) and 649 deaths (349 last week)
Japan reported 65.4K new cases (up from 10.2K) and 16 deaths (5 last week)
South Africa reported 38.2K new cases (down from 55.5K) and 865 deaths (down from 1,107)
South Korea reported 26.1K new cases (slightly down from 26.7K) and 327 deaths (369 last week)
Iran reported 13.1K new cases (up from 9,823) and 205 deaths (215 last week)

Australia practically doubled its total reported cases compared to last week from 762K to 1,537K total cases

Europe in detail

The UK appears to have peeked, Italy might be at its peek, the rest still look to be climbing or just starting to climb

Global vaccination rate passed the 50%! Now 50.88% (+1.11%)

South America 65.10% (+0.92%)
Europe 62.27% (+0.67%)
Oceania 58.82% (+0.37%)
Asia 58.68% (+1.51%)
North America 58.67% (+0.38%)
Africa 9.97% (+0.35%)

Locally (Ontario) hospitalizations due to Covid are still going up, 53% of admittance is for Covid currently, 78% of admittance to the ICU.
The rate of new admissions looks to be slowing down, the peek is in sight.

https://www.oha.com/Bulletins/COVID-19%20Capacity%20Slides%2014%20Jan%202022.pdf