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THE NUMBER OF Covid-19 cases spiralled by more than a half across the world this week, but pandemic-linked deaths dropped 9%.
Health officials in Ireland today confirmed a further 20,110 cases of Covid-19.
As of 8am today, 682 people were in hospital in Ireland with the virus, 86 of whom were in intensive care.
Yesterday, 20,554 new cases of the virus were reported – the fourth time this week that a new daily record was set.
However, these figures are likely to be underestimates and Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan today said the actual daily figure could be closer to 30,000 cases.
Now let’s take a look at the state of play around the world:
1.1 million daily cases
The average number of new daily coronavirus cases globally has passed the symbolic one million mark to 1.18 million, a 57% increase over the week before.
The Europe region accounted for 54% of the cases, recording 4,490,612 over the week. The United States and Canada zone provided another 32%, with 2,636,831 cases.
The confirmed cases only reflect a fraction of the actual number of infections, with varying counting practices and levels of testing in different countries.
Omicron is now the dominant variant in many countries.
Flare ups in Latin America, Oceania
The main flare ups at a regional level took place in Oceania and Latin America and the Caribbean, where they more than doubled — by 157% and 138% respectively.
There was also a big increase of 92% in cases in the United States/Canada zone. The number of infections increased in Europe by 47% and in the Middle East by 37%.
Cases in Africa, where the highly contagious Omicron variant was first detected, increased by just 8%. Asia bucked the world trend with its infection numbers down by 2%.
Some 30 countries from all corners of the world struck record weekly infection rates, including Denmark, Ireland, Cyprus, the United Kingdom and France.
Deaths down
At a global level the number of Covid-linked deaths dropped by 9% to 6,330 on average per day.
Europe accounted for more than half, or 53% of the deaths, with 23,324 people succumbing over the past week. The United States and Canada made up 24%, or 10,433, of the fatalities.
The countries reporting the highest death rates in proportion to their population were Trinidad and Tobago with 12.08 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Georgia (11.76), Hungary (8.25), Poland (7.85) and Croatia (7.65).
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Vincent Browne is a ledgend and is the only real journalist out there that reports the issues that the public want to hear and not a load of bs that the government and the papers feed to its people every day.
I’m sick to death of hearing more of the same regurgitated about the bank debt…repeating it won’t change anything. Energies are better focused on what we can do to turn things around
Becaue the bank debt matters. You are paying for it with YOUR money. I’m not sure if your post is meant to be sarcastic but on the current trajectory, we are heading for a second bailout with savage austerity. If you’re ok with that, good luck!
I hear ya Brenda. (Most) Irish peoples attitudes are a big reason I want to do a few years abroad working, not the economic crisis!
A good news story, a murder suspect tracked down. Good work by Gardai & Interpol. a long wait for family of victim. Plenty of coverage of our banks etc … A dangerous man behind bars has to be a good result.
The Police have done their job but my original point is that people on here are starting the vigilante thing. Brave computer warriors. Aren’t people more concerned about issues close to home like our banking debts that we are saddled with?
Tim – your Facebook details alone scream anti anything other than Sinn Fein. Please reserve these ludicrous comments for relevant articles regarding government, economy, Europe (not the football) etc. otherwise stop peddling this anarchism on completely unrelated articles.nnThanks,nEvery other reader
Not every story is going to be about bank debt.
Can we move onto more relevant stories closer to home please. Namely, the Bank debt.
lol.. did you just get the internet yesterday? Bank debt.. shur that’s hardly relevant these days.
Anyways.. fair play to Interpol and our Gardai. At least something positive still exists in this debt ridden hole of ours!
mart,
You’re not as clever as you want others to believe. Few vigilantes go on a witchhunt except those with little or no news to report as a journalist. At least Vincent Browne is one respected journalist to admire – he covers issues of interest to the Irish people.
You need to lighten up, Tim. Not everything revolves around our national debt… good things can still happen when you fell like you’re in the doldrums.
Hi Tim,
Plenty of economic stories on the site today. Here’s just one:
Thanks,
Sinead
Jesus Tim, if you want to read about debt and economic woe by all means look at the titles before you click in. This is a good news story – yes, they still happen – don’t dampen it with your negativity. Good news TheJournal et al. I remember seeing the story a few weeks ago. nnNext theyve got to find DJ MorgIOS…couldn’t resist….
In the end there shall be only 1
My god Tim I’m losing the will to live reading your comments. How negative, boring and repetitive can one person be? Maybe you’re just trolling like lots of other people on this site?
What Bank debt, it’s now the Irish Taxpayers’ debt. The un-named bondholders are laughing all the way to their Euro banks with our money given to them by that idiot Cowen in late night deals and now supported by this spineless government.
If they put him in a cell with Sean Quinn, who would walk out alive?
If they put me in a cell with him instead of Sean Quinn, he’d probably walk out alive because I would probably have died from boredom.
Hyperbole media is replacing tabloid media. Personally, I no longer read newspapers that report on court cases because it’s merely an attempt to cover-up for their lack of journalism. Negative news reporting with titles like “man arrested for xyz” or “man jailed for xyz” is boorish.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
― George Orwell
Yeah yeah yeah, whine, whine, whine, what a ball of fun your friends must find you. Life goes on with or without bank debt. I am not here forever and intend enjoying the time I am here so not planning on spending it whining.
Because the bank debt matters everything else doesn’t…. Yeah, sure, nice one… Go away, your boorish
Tim ( bank debt ) Jackson. Has a nice ring to it. As many here have pointed out there are a couple of stories here day to day on the dealings of the banks and they like of scoundrels like Quinn. This is the journal.ie not bankdebt.ie. it was interesting to see some post about your Facebook saying your were pro SF. Is it any wonder you are not find of Interpol. Half the shiners are on the run with a boot full of stolen ink
Edit .Fond of interpol. Thanks you and goodnight.
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