Thread by @TWMCLtd

Saturday's #Coronavirus megathread starts here.

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It's a quite start today following the flurry of news last night..

crowdfunder.co.uk/covid19-travel…

So a lot of data and a couple of new stories came in during the last hour or so of Friday, including South America data.

You can catch up on #Argentina #Brazil #Colombia #Bulgaria #Norway stats, and some #OlympicGames news by clicking and scrolling ⬇️

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1398391780580679688

Now more very concerning news from #Bahrain, one of the most vaccinated territories on the planet.

#Covid19 cases are still rising there - more worrying is the real increase in deaths too.
Second highest daily number of new cases & deaths in the latest update
graph @Worldometers

Oh dear #Malaysia in lockdown seems to be experiencing what Brits went through 14 months ago!

The country suffered a record number of daily new #Covid19 cases this morning as the figure topped 9k for the first time (9,020)

https://twitter.com/kpdnhep/status/1398538347232960516

Here's another dramatic looking graph of #Taiwan's #Covid19 growth via @Worldometers

Important to look at scale though. 23m population and the peak only 535.
New cases coming down now: 327 today, but an all time high 21 Covid deaths

#Philippines has had a sharp spike in #Covid19 cases the past two days.
it's already on the UK red list, and no immediate sign of a change in status after over 16,000 infections in the last two days.
The SE Asian archipelago hasn't seen 8k a day for 4 weeks.

#Covid19 deaths in #Russia continue to mount.

Remember, the Kremlin has only been admitting about 20% of its #Coronavirus deaths in the daily updates.

But again more than 400 fatalities declared today.
Over the last 2 weeks, avg daily deaths have climbed over 10% (348 to 383)

Very bad data from #Denmark today, but not totally unexpected.

@Joenelmbak had warned me that authorities were preparing for more rising cases.
1,038 new infections and 4 further deaths. That's a 38% increase in cases.

A slight rise in new cases in the #Netherlands today

3,381 #Covid19 infections diagnosed in the last 24 hours, which is 219 higher than last Saturday. That's only 7% but worth keeping an eye on.

8 more deaths for the Dutch today.

#UK announces 3,398 new positive tests for #Covid19
Much lower than yesterday but the important number is the 26% rise on last Saturday's figure.

Deaths up one again from 6 to 7.
Casess over the week are up 23%, deaths by a huge 44%

The important, good news for #UK, is that although new admissions to hospital are rising (up 23% in a week), the total number of #Covid19 patients in hospital is falling, down 4.3% over the same time.

That seems to indicate vaccines working. People are being discharged quickly

#Portugal is up 11% today

582 more cases of #Covid19 detected, 59 higher than last Saturday. No new deaths.

Here's the breakdown of new cases for the regions:
#Lisbon 327 and in trouble
#Algave 19
#Azores 21
#Madeira 14

#Greece's figures virtually unchanged today.
1,497 cases of #Covid19, down just 8 on a week ago.

Only 29 deaths and now only 510 patients remain in Intensive Care units across Greece.

Case numbers for the islands to follow.

#Greece
#Covid19 cases today on the islands (updated 7-day infection rates to follow)

70 #Crete
25 #Corfu
13 #Lesbos
9 #Rhodes
5 #Kalymnos
4 #Syros
3 #AtticaIslands #Thassos
2 #Andros #Chios #Kos #Tinos
1 #Kefalonia #Lefkada #Milos #Mykonos #Naxos #Paros #Samos #Zakynthos

1/2
#Greece Islands' 7-day #Covid19 infection rates /100k
Alphabetical order except for the big two destinations

#Crete 85.9
#Corfu 151.9
#Andros 86.8
#Attica Isl 65.6
#Chios 20.0
#Ikaria 11.9
#Kalymnos 175
#Karpathos 0
#KeaKythnos 0
#Kefalonia 19.6
#Kos 21.0
#Lefkada 12.6

2/2
#Greece Islands' 7-day #Covid19 infection rates /100k

#Lemnos 29.4
#Lesbos 76.6
#Milos 20.1
#Mykonos 19.7
#Naxos 99.9
#Paros 36.5
#Rhodes 45.0
#Samos 33.6
#Santorini 45.3
#Sporades 0
#Syros 102.3
#Thassos 58.1
#Tinos 45.0
#Zakynthos 21.7

#Portugal - my mistake, sorry.
Total new #Covid19 cases are a little higher at 609, so a 16% increase not 11%. The regional data are correct.

https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1398665550562271234

Just been going through the data in #UK's #IndianVariant hotspots and more encouraging news.

#Bolton is seeing very big falls in most areas of the town, indeed #Blackburn has overtaken it. But even there lower numbers last 2 days.
Excellent graphic ⬇️

https://twitter.com/wurzgum/status/1398676077350899715

#France data this evening shows a 15% fall.
10,675 new #Covid19 cases and 71 new deaths.

The 7 day infection rate has just crept under 100/100k

Tomorrow I will give my predictions on which countries may be added to the 🟢list and which deserve to be promoted in the UK🚦review

#Italy is stepping up its case to go green
A 29% fall in #Covid19 cases to 3,351.
83 more deaths.
Italy's infection rate is 41/100k

Another 11% rise for #Chile just announced.

8,375 new cases of #Covid19 along with 119 deaths

Interesting to note that #Ecuador has been one of the South American countries to have avoided the recent carnage, but this evening a big rise in #Covid19 infections.

1,576 cases, up 350 (nearly 30%) and 77 new deaths

#Bahrain has achieved over 97 vaccine jabs per 100 people, among the highest in the world.

Tonight Bahrain has broken its national record for new #Covid19 cases yet again.

3,273 new cases and 16 new deaths

#Covid19 cases in #Brazil up tonight, but #Argentina down

29.841 new infections by Buenos Aires, down a little over 2,000 just 24 hours after the national record.
415 more deaths.

#Brazil meanwhile sees cases back up by over 11% to almost 79,000