Daily Update :
We welcome to the leaderboard Gambia, Montenegro and Barbados. We now have 165 countries / territories on the leaderboard. If you’ve ever tried to work out exactly how many total countries and territories there are in the world… well, it isn’t easy. I’m running with something like 200. That is a lot of spread in a short time for a little virus. It is probably very proud of itself.
Joining the “Over 100” club today is UAE, Russia, Peru. However these were overshadowed by Ecuador smashing through the barrier with a 91% increase in cases, and Luxembourg with a 73% increase.
Up the top of the leaderboard and Germany have overtaken S Korea to move into 5th place. A non-impressive day from Germany racking up 2095 new cases which is only behind Italy for daily increase. Interestingly, Germany have the least number of deaths total out of any of the top 10 countries. Considering that their 2095 new cases in the last 24 hours would put them in 10th position ahead of UK on 1950 cases total… that’s a surprising effort. Must be the Schwarzbier. Drink more beer - helpful community message for the day.
The “Most Non-Improved” award today goes to the USA, and finally we are starting to see what might be the first signs of the real performance over there. 38% increase in cases is a very big number for a country already sitting in 8th place. From my numbers, you have to get down to Luxembourg in 46th place before that percentage is beaten. For the first time, the USA move ahead of Australia in terms of cases per million population. {shitabouttohitfan.gif}
In Australia, it does appear as if we have had a quieter day. 51 cases for the 24 hours is a much much much better number than the 100 odd from yesterday. It sits us at about a 13% increase, which is still more than we would like, but I’d consider that number good. It does still see us climb up a spot on the ladder to 20th position, leaving Qatar in our wake, (3 new cases Qatar??? really???).