Until Omicron, Japan had managed to keep COVID-19 at bay.   However, this pandemic has bitten the country, and new cases over the past few days have been averaging around 100,000/day.   While that is only around 800/million population, the U.S. was #2 in new cases yesterday, but we are now down to 536/million.   Hawaii was once up to 4466/million a month ago, but yesterday dropped to 381/million. The country with the most new cases yesterday was Germany with 212,724, or 2532/million. Denmark is way up there at 8110/million.  As terrible as it has been,  the country began to lift restrictions last month, and earlier this month became the first European nation to say no face masks necessary anymore.  They don't even check your vaccination status in bars and restaurants.   Said Prime Minister Mette Fredricksen,  we welcome a completely open Denmark .  Am I missing something??? However, not as bad as Reunion in the India Ocean at 33,976/million and Martinique in the Caribbean with 22