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In early June when Brazil had the highest number of total new cases in the world, their government removed comprehensive numbers on coronavirus cases and deaths from the Health Ministry's website, claiming without offering evidence that state officials had been reporting inflated figures to secure more federal funding. The numbers were later brought back after a Supreme Court justice ordered the government to stop suppressing the data.
United Kingdom - England - Jan 9
New Variant:
UK and Ireland case rates have shot up since new variants of COVID-19 were discovered.
The U.K. variant was reported on December 14.
Some people are calling it a strain but a strain of a virus has distinct properties and a particular immune response. These are variants.
The South African variant was from three people from Ireland who traveled to South Africa over the Christmas holidays. They think it has been contained as of January 9.
The U.K. variant is more common than the South African variant in Ireland.
Estimates are that the new variant is 50 - 70% more contagious than the previously circulating form of the virus.
Place | Popu- lation | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Posi- tivity Rate |
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Total | New * | Total | New* | % of popu- lation | New /100K | Total /1M | New /1M |
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United Kingdom | 66,650,000 | 3,072,349 | 59,653 | 81,431 | 915 | 4.6% | 90 | 1,222 | 13.7 |
10 most populated countries Total and % infected. Dec 21
Pop Million | Total Cases M | % infected | |
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United States | 330 | 19.13 | 5.8% |
Brazil | 212 | 7.48 | 3.5% |
Russia | 143 | 3.02 | 2.1% |
Mexico | 129 | 1.38 | 1.1% |
India | 1,325 | 10.21 | 0.8% |
Bangladesh | 163 | 0.509 | 0.3% |
Indonesia | 273 | 0.713 | 0.3% |
Pakistan | 233 | 0.473 | 0.2% |
China | 1,394 | 0.96 | 0.1% |
Nigeria | 214 | 0.084 | 0.04% |