Weekly update. Most movement comes from changes in reporting styles.
In total 2.25 million new cases were reported last week (down from 2.60 million)
Also another 11,853 more deaths were reported (up from 11,175) to a total of 6,604,480
USA reported 271K new cases (276K last week) and 2,872 more deaths (up from 2,560)
Europe reported 809K new cases (down from 1.24 million) and 4,862 more deaths (down from 5,551)
A lot of countries in Europe are changing their reporting style again, hence the odd dip.
The continents
Asia is slightly up, nothing big
Corners of the world
South Korea and Japan are up a bit.
It seems BA.5 is expanding a bit in Japan: In Japan, the BA.5 lineage has largely become mainstream, and is replacing others. At present, there is not a trend toward further replacement by other lineages.
Cases in China will likely go up further now China is going to relax their harsh policies a bit
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/reports-say-china-aiming-for-less-disruptive-covid-19-policies-1.6139173
Chinese officials are trying to quell an outcry over the death of a 3-year-old boy from a quarantined residential compound that added to public anger at anti-virus controls that have confined millions of people to their homes.
The boy died at a hospital in Lanzhou of carbon monoxide poisoning blamed on a gas leak. His father accused health workers who were enforcing the closure of the compound of refusing to help and trying to stop him as he rushed his son to the hospital.
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