Weekly update. Worldwide cases are sort of staying the same with cases in the Northern hemisphere still going down, cases in the Southern hemisphere creeping up.
In total 3.78 million new cases were reported last week (slightly up from 3.69 million) to a total of 520,278,716
Also another 11,958 deaths were reported (down from 15,568) to a total of 6,286,535
Europe still heading down (1.74M -> 1.35M), USA still creeping back up (497K -> 640K)
Deaths continue to decline, closing in on getting under 10,000 deaths per week.
The continents
Europe continues heading down, the rest are all creeping back up, USA carrying NA.
Corners of the world
USA and South Africa are having the largest growth, Australia and Brazil following with slight growth.
Japan stabilized from a recent growth spurt, Korea flattened out on their downward trend.
China continues to report only symptomatic cases while continuing their zero covid strategy. Supermarkets and restaurants are said to re-open on Monday in Shanghai with limited capacity and "no contact" transactions
Canada reported 32K new cases (down from 41K) and 501 deaths (486 last week)
Europe in detail
General downward trend next to a general increasing lack of reporting. Only 8 of the 16 countries I'm tracking still report all week round.
At home yesterday was another very bad day for my wife. This disease is nasty. Vomiting, Diarrhea, nasty cough, extremely soar throat, lack of oxygen now and then, wild temperature swings. One moment she's shivering, next boiling. I was debating with her yesterday to call for help when she was complaining about lack of oxygen, but she's stubborn lol. Not that the healthcare system ever treated her right :/
She survived another night at least, slightly better this morning. Our youngest who had it first is pretty much fully recovered, just a stuffy nose left, loss of smell, and still a bit tired. He did a test again yesterday, came out negative. It's just an old rapid home test though that's not very reliable with Omicron.
The wife of my uncle did get a positive on the rapid test, she's got it bad as well now. Uncle is doing better, their son, my kids nephew, is better as well. The grandparents have managed to avoid it so far. I'm staying away from my wife as much as possible, we can't afford both to be down with kids. She's mostly sticking to the bedroom (really can't move much anyway) with the fan on and the windows open. I stay upwind from the fan and sleep on the couch at night, so far it has worked.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better again and not like a different friend of my wife who looked to get better then got worse again :/
