
Turkey announced the total number of reported cases, including asymptomatic cases since the end of July, reaching more than 1.7 million cases.Ĭonfirmed cases and deaths, which are widely considered to be an undercount of the true toll, are counts of individuals whose coronavirus infections were confirmed by a molecular laboratory test. Several countries did not publish data on Dec. More about reporting anomalies or changesĮcuador added a backlog of deaths from 2020. The Times has identified reporting anomalies or methodology changes in the data. The New York Times has found that official tallies in more than thirty countries have undercounted deaths during the coronavirus outbreak because of limited testing availability. Data for some countries, like the United States, Denmark, France and the Netherlands, include counts for overseas territories. Population data from the World Bank and U.S. United States data comes from state and local health officials and is collected by The New York Times. State of the virusĭata for all countries except the United States comes from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. (please enable JavaScript to use this feature) About this data The hot spots map shows the share of population with a new reported case over the last week. Track each country’s vaccination progress here. About 58 percent of the world’s population has received at least one vaccine dose, but the levels remain far lower in many poor countries, including many in Africa.Some 4.7 million health care workers are expected to retire in the next few years, and more are signaling that they might quit within 12 months, according to the International Council of Nurses. An international organization of nursing associations warned that burnout among frontline health care workers could cause an exodus of nurses from the profession, intensifying the pressure on already suffering health systems.

The study also showed that vaccines were not as effective against the variant, though it was based on only three weeks of data. An early study from South Africa suggested that patients infected with Omicron might be hospitalized less often than patients infected with earlier versions of the virus.But reported deaths in southern Africa, where Omicron was first identified, have not increased at the same rate, adding to hopes that the fast-spreading variant tends to cause less serious illness. The Delta and Omicron variants are driving the fastest surge of new coronavirus cases in Africa since the pandemic began, with about 196,000 new cases reported in one week, nearly double the figure from the week before.Researchers cautioned that the trend could change as the variant comes into clearer view but argued that swift actions, such as booster campaigns and new social restrictions, could lessen its impact. European Union officials warned that Omicron could be the dominant coronavirus variant in Europe by mid-January, causing a surge in cases and probably increasing the number of hospitalizations and deaths, even if its symptoms prove to be mild.
