Another way it comes to an end is, just ignore it and let it run its course. Actually more people are starting to wear masks again in my local area. The regional hospital was directing people to our small municipal health unit due to Covid outbreaks. But no more numbers for Ontario, it's gone! not. We're in our 7th wave now, Covid-19 traces in wastewater is going up.
Japan is feeling the strain but is reluctant to do much about it
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/29/national/covid-ba5-countermeasures/
As the number of coronavirus infections soars to unprecedented levels, Japan will allow prefectural governments to take stronger COVID-19 measures tailored to their own needs, Daishiro Yamagiwa, the minister in charge of the government’s COVID-19 response, announced Friday.
Governors can declare that their prefectures are in need of measures to counter the BA.5 subvariant when their health care systems are severely strained, such as when a prefecture’s hospital bed occupancy rate tops 50%, he said.
But the move is not meant to restrict people’s movement or business activities, Yamagiwa said, noting that the goal is to achieve infection control and the continuance of economic and social activities at the same time.
I wonder how, the wave will crash on its own eventually...
Meanwhile Monkeypox is on the rise
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/in-race-for-monkeypox-vaccines-experts-see-repeat-of-covid-1.6008546
Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning.
Critics fear a repeat of the catastrophic inequity problems seen during the coronavirus pandemic.
"The mistakes we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic are already being repeated," said Dr. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University.
Great, where its needed, no vaccines. And thus more chance of spreading and creating new strains...?
Weekly update, up and up, except where counting is down and down.
In total 7.06 new cases were reported last week (down from 7.37 million) to a total of 580,771,207
Also another 16,362 more deaths were reported (up from 15,305) to a total of 6,417,504
Europe might have peaked but reporting is spotty, 2.06 million cases this week (2.89 million last week) and 6,240 deaths (5,769 last week)
USA seems to be going back down, 908K cases this week (975K last week) and 3,108 deaths (3,219 last week)
The continents
Asia keep climbing, the rest seems to be level or heading down
Corners of the world
Iran seems to be slowing down, Japan keeps on climbing. The rest stays level, Canada stopped reporting.
Last time for the Europe graph, not worth updating anymore with the lack of and otherwise wildly fluctuating numbers coming out
Russia seems to be heading into another big wave, maybe it will get Putin... Biden recovered
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-tested-negative-covid-his-physician-says-2022-07-27/
U.S. President Joe Biden celebrated his recovery from COVID-19 on Wednesday with an appeal to Americans to get vaccinated and a comparison of his mild symptoms and work-from-home performance to the more serious case experienced by his predecessor.
It's not that simple, get vaccinated -> only get a mild case. But good advice nonetheless.
