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The French and Spanish epidemics are producing more than 10,000 new registered cases per day, and the predictions seem to be coming true: Britain is also joining the major centers in Europe. Although there is a one-time jump in the Johns Hopkins University data, which makes the picture even scarier than it actually is, the number of diseases is rising very steeply other than that.
There is also no reassurance in the smaller developed economies, the number of cases in Belgium and the Netherlands is also increasing rapidly, leaving many of the peaks of the first wave.
Meanwhile, the processes in our region are also unfavorable, with the epidemic spreading in the countries of the first wave sample. The situation in the Czech Republic and Poland is remarkable.
The situation east of us is no better: in Ukraine, the spread of the virus has even accelerated, and in Romania the epidemic has gained new momentum.
In Russia, we see similar deterioration processes:
In the United States, the slowdown in the epidemic stopped a month ago and since then we have seen 40,000 cases a day again. The “heat map” of the world also shows that the coronavirus has been released again, especially in European countries.
How was the map made?
Using country-level data from the Johns Hopkins University database, we analyzed the average number of infections recorded per day over the past week. We compared this with similar data a month ago and plotted the percentage change on the map. The greater the increase, the stronger the orange hue of the country, the greater the decrease, the greener. In countries with a low number of infections, there can be big positive and negative changes as a percentage, so we set the color scale to mark the country with the strongest color at 30%. It is important to emphasize that the map does not represent the general situation of the epidemic on an absolute scale, but rather the change in the individual situation of each country compared to its own situation a month earlier. So of course, while orange Hungary and green India are useless, this does not mean that we have much more of the virus. “Just” is that the number of tens of thousands of official cases has officially decreased slightly in India over the past month, while it has increased in Hungary. Therefore, the color differences on the map indicate where the virus is more or less spreading compared to the situation in the previous month.
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