Slow weekend for coronavirus news, at least for news that spoke to me. I wish I thought that was because things are so improved, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Maybe next week ... yeah, right.
The UK on Sunday reported the highest jump in new cases since July with 45,140. The past seven days have seen a total of 300,081 new cases, a 15.1 percent increase over the previous week. This was the fifth consecutive day with over 40,000 new cases. There were 57 deaths of people within 28 days of positive covid test. The seven-day total was 852, an 8.5 percent increase. The UK is not the only place seeing numbers rise. Russia just reported its largest daily number of cases, more than 70 percent higher than a month ago. There were 34,303 new cases on Sunday compared to 20,174 on September 19. Only 29 percent of the Russian population is fully vaccinated. While some regions have some restrictions in place, life goes on as normal in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and a lot of other cities.
The AFP (Agence France-Presse) news agency reports an overall death toll of at least 4,891,684 covid deaths since December 2019 and at least 240,314,450 cases. If those numbers sound huge, the WHO claims the overall death toll could be two to three times higher based on excess mortality. The worst-affected country? What else, the US of A with at least 724,153 deaths and at least 44,916,462 cases. The next four countries in descending order are Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia. There is some disagreement over Russia's case and death numbers that could place it above Mexico, but what's one place when talking about numbers as large as these?
I'm hoping for more news tomorrow to welcome the new addition to the computing family.
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Where I live, 50% of the cases are under 19. The initial phase of the national vaccination programme was for over 18s only, maybe if we'd included school age children at that time, before they started back to school in September then things might have been different. I will be stopping home the week of half term when the kids are out and about rather than at school.
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