The USA continues to recover from COVID-19.  However, several countries in the Orient are getting worse in new cases per day, and New Zealand, which until recently was admired as a being incredibly successful in fending off this virus, is now suffering.  Yesterday (with new cases/million population in the parentheses): South Korea  266,838  (5232) Hong Kong  52,523  (6910) Singapore  17,564  (2977) Austria  32,419  (3602) Denmark  19,178  (3307) New Zealand  22,582  (4516) USA  45,698  (137) Taiwan  (2.7) China  294  (0.2) The case of  New Zealand  is somewhat baffling.   For the longest time they had zero new cases daily.   Now, this number yesterday was among the world highest at 4516/million population. Yet, 95% of New Zealanders over 12 have been vaccinated, and 57% boostered.   Probably says something about the contagious effectiveness of the Omicro...