Death toll surpasses 6 million for pandemic now in 3rd year
Source: Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) The official global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 6 million on Monday underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over.
The milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the globe.
Remote Pacific islands, whose isolation had protected them for more than two years, are just now grappling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant.
Hong Kong, which is seeing deaths soar, is testing its entire population of 7.5 million three times this month as it clings to mainland Chinas zero-COVID strategy.
As death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries, the region has seen more than 1.5 million refugees arrive from war-torn Ukraine, a country with poor vaccination coverage and high rates of cases and deaths.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-lifestyle-9cd511bc84955131ba00846716e02647
progree
(10,930 posts)The world new cases 7 day moving average is on the rise again, after falling more than 50% from its Jan 24 peak. It is up 3.6% from March 2 to March 6, the latest on their chart.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
No Paywall, No Quota, The "Last 90 Days" button is very helpful
Top 10 countries (and some other entities) in daily new cases per 100k, 7 day moving average (including only ones over 100k population)
Brunei 969
Iceland 694
Hong Kong 576
New Zealand 448
South Korea 423
Latvia 389
Netherlands 355
Austria 335
Singapore 305
Denmark 281
Next 10: Estonia (254), Slovakia, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Vietnam, Lithuania, Cyprus, Greece, Bahrain (129).
Compare to U.S.: 15
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142883169
muriel_volestrangler
(101,405 posts)You can look at the figures for individual countries here - here are the top 5 countries in their estimates:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&uniformYAxis=0&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_cases_per_million&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28estimates%29&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=false&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=IND~USA~RUS~IDN~PAK