Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Weekly update. Milestone reached, first time the official weekly death count falls below 10,000.

In total 3.85 million new cases were reported last week (down from 4.39 million) tot a total of 534,630,656
Also another 9,412 more deaths were reported (down from 10,632) to a total of 6,318,914

Big dip in the USA due to memorial day
Europe heading slightly back up despite less and less reporting

The continents

South America, USA and Europe slowly creeping up, Asia, Africa and Oceania slowly heading down

Corners of the world

Canada reported 17.0K new cases (down from 18.4K) and 268 deaths (303 last week)

Europe in detail

Ukraine is no longer reporting at all, half the countries are now updating once or twice a week.
Germany, Spain, Belgium,Netherlands and Austria are slowly trending back up


My wife is slowly recovering. She's no longer stuck in bed but has to take things very slowly. Still bad coughing fits and if she does a bit too much she gets dizzy and gets the urge to vomit and trouble breathing. I would say she's about 30% / 40% of her normal. But it's getting better at least.

The good news
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/iran-marks-first-day-without-covid-deaths-says-health-minister-1.5929831
It will be a while until we reach that milestone here

The bad news
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/shanghai-neighbourhoods-return-to-lockdown-a-day-after-restrictions-eased-1.5931044
Still going on Shanghai

And more of the unbelievable news
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/who-says-covid-in-north-korea-likely-getting-worse-not-better-1.5929325

Deaths would still be above 10,000 if NK was reporting the actual counts, same for Ukraine and likely Russia, and all the other places that are under counting. But that has been the same ish all pandemic, so the milestone stands. Finally less than 10K official deaths per week since this thing started. Next milestone, less than a 1,000 a day!