The state of Puducherry, India joins our “Winners Circle”
Congratulations!
India continues to report great progress. Currently 13 states and territories report less than 20 new cases per day, our “Winners Circle” at endcoronavirus.org/india-states-ut.
22 regions are in our “nearly there” category, new cases below ⅕ of their peak. Several are very close to “winning”: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Uttarakhand.
The only region in India that is currently in our “needs action” category is Kerala. After initial success, Kerala opened up too soon and is now one of the hardest-hit regions.
Outbreaks in Kozhikode, Ernakulam and Malappuram districts are responsible for many of the cases.
To put India’s case numbers into perspective:
If the US had the same number of new daily cases per capita, they would be reporting only ~3,000 new cases per day.
Combining all of the states of Northeast India together there are now 25 cases per day:
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Both Guam and the US Virgin Islands remain green, as they report very few cases per day. Well done!
New variants are still a significant concern in US, which now has 1,277 confirmed cases of the more transmissible, more severe B.1.1.7 “UK” variant. Nearly ⅓ of which are found in Florida.
US will record over 500,000 deaths and we know many more have happened.
Peru’s summer resurgence is now showing case and death rates similar to their previous peaks. Stress on their medical system forced much of the country into a lockdown, which started Jan 31.
The UK has reported significant progress since the beginning of their recent set of restrictions. They are now averaging 13,000 cases (¼ of peak) and 700 deaths (½ of peak) per day.
In an attempt to slow the importation of new variants, Britain will now require travelers coming from 33 select countries to complete a 10-day quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel.
Scotland is requiring this for all international air passengers.
In Australia, Victoria continues to track down new locally-acquired cases of the UK variant B.1.1.7. All cases have known epidemiological links to the hotel outbreak. It has not yet been decided whether they will extend their lockdown past the scheduled end date of Feb 17.