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SvennoJ on 22 January 2022
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Weekly update, the spread of Omicron continues


In total 22.6 million new cases were reported last week (up from 20.5 million) to a total of 346,822,805
Also another 55,699 more deaths were reported (up from 50,241) to a total of 5,603,100

The USA seems to have (temporarily) peaked, reported deaths are still rising though. Europe continues to climb.

The continents

Europe reported 9.09 million new cases (up from 7.98 million) and 20,779 more deaths (slightly down from 20,914)
North America reported 5.91 million new cases (down from 6.41 million) and 18,621 more deaths (up from 15,765)
Asia reported 4.33 million new cases (up from 3.15 million) and 7,772 more deaths (7,687 last week)
South America reported 2.48 million new cases (up from 1.91 million) and 5,593 more deaths (up from 3,275)
Oceania reported 559K new cases (down from 779K) and 459 deaths (237 last week)
Africa reported 266K new cases (down from 292K) and 2,475 more deaths (slightly up from 2,318)

Corners of the world

USA reported 5.19 million new cases (slightly down from 5.75 million) and 15,557 more deaths (up from 13,740)
India reported 2.05 million new cases (up from 1.48 million) and 3,131 more deaths (up from 2,317)
Brazil reported 831K new cases (up from 477K) and 1,800 more deaths (up from 969)
Australia reported 554K new cases (down from 775K) and 411 deaths (259 last week)
Japan reported 209K new cases (up from 65.5K) and 55 deaths (16 last week)
Canada reported 171K new cases (down from 236K) and 1,052 more deaths (up from 649)
South Korea reported 35.7K new cases (up from 26.1K) and 242 deaths (327 last week)
Iran reported 24.5K new cases (up from 13.1K) and 146 deaths (205 last week)
South Africa reported 24.3K new cases (down from 38.2K) and 832 deaths (865 last week)

Europe in detail

Countries are taking their turn shooting straight up. Testing capacity seems to be flattening the curve more than social distancing measures.

Global vaccination rate is now 51.77% (+0.89%)

South America 66.33% (+1.23%)
Europe 62.72% (+0.45%)
Asia 59.81% (+1.13%)
North America 59.74% (+1.07%)
Oceania 59.16% (+0.34%)
Africa 10.13% (+0.16%)

Africa finally passed the 10% fully vaccinated. Still going very slow despite promises to speed up vaccinations in Africa.

Locally hospitalizations are slowing down, still climbing though. The peak of the wave might have passed, yet it's all around atm. Advise is to keep things the same for now, not re-opening things yet as that will increase the cases further. One of our kids teachers has Covid now, so it's spreading in school. The new idea here is to scrap the busses next week since it's too cold to open the windows.... It's too cold to open the windows in school as ell and the kids spend 6 hours there, vs 10 minutes on the bus... I guess it's to 'close' the schools without actually closing them lol. Most people won't bring their kids to school (no capacity at the school for that either). We're keeping them home another week.