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 Omicron variant. Further, and this is amazing, the total number of deaths up to yesterday for the entire country was only 63, which is a rat
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