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As of March 2020, the reported death rate calculated as the number of deaths divided by the number of infected in Germany was lower than in some other areas such as Italy, for example. This has led foreign media to applaud or question it, while virologists, among others the leader of the RKI, warned that the country was simply at an earlier ...
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022 ...
On 9 March, the first COVID-19 deaths in Germany, an 89-year-old woman in Essen and a 78-year-old man in Heinsberg, were reported. [8] By the evening of 10 March, the count of cases in the state rose to 648. [137] All mass events in North Rhine-Westphalia with more than 1000 participants were banned with immediate effect. [138]
The United Kingdom reported 39,237 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the highest record in any one day since the start of the pandemic. [170] There were also 744 new deaths, the highest COVID-19 fatalities reported since 29 April. [171] It was also announced that the new 501.V2 variant of coronavirus discovered in South Africa had reached the UK. [172]
These effects have persisted as US deaths due to COVID-19 in 2021 exceeded those in 2020. [363] In the United States, COVID-19 vaccines became available under emergency use in December 2020, beginning the national vaccination program. The first COVID-19 vaccine was officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration on 23 August 2021. [364]
A study of samples collected in Manaus between November 2020 and January 2021, indicated that the Gamma variant is 1.4–2.2 times more transmissible and was shown to be capable of evading 25–61% of inherited immunity from previous coronavirus diseases, leading to the possibility of reinfection after recovery from an earlier COVID-19 ...
France reported that the number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients has decreased from 7,062 to 6,983, with the number in intensive care falling from 496 to 492. [154] Germany reported 159 new cases and 1 death, raising the total numbers to 198,963 and 9,064 respectively, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute. [155]
Mexico has reported a total of 46,688 deaths and 424,637 infections, giving the country the third highest death rate from COVID-19. [4] New Zealand has reported two new cases, bringing the number of active cases to 22 and the total number to 1,562 (1,212 confirmed and 350 probable).