Worldwide there were 19,115,384 newly reported cases of Covid-19 in the month of May
North Korea announced they had their “first” cases of Covid-19.
China had Beijing and Shanghai in lockdown for a significant part of the month.
Australia had almost 1.4 million new reported cases.
This month ended with our 2nd youngest grandson testing positive to Covid-19.
During the month Australia gained the dubious title of the most new infections per head of population in the world, we also moved from 21st place in total number of reported Covid-19 cases to 16th.
The world seems to be getting on with things. Covid-19 deaths are way down on earlier this year, in the 100’s now rather than the 1000’s. I suspect this is due to less reporting rather than a huge actual drop in cases and deaths.
Cruising seeming to be opening all over the world, but there are still case clusters occurring onboard. We have friends in the USA who have just finished a cruise, one of them got Covid-19 onboard and they have had to isolate both onboard and when they disembarked. They knew of at least 20 others onboard who got it.
My charts are showing worldwide the number of daily cases of Covid-19 has settled into a band between 500,000 and 1,000,000 cases being reported a day, in Australia that band is between 30,000 and 70,000 per day.
In Australia our hospitalisation rate appears to have reached a plateau around 2700 people on hospital at any given day, with a stable 4% of those being in ICU, down from 8%.
The death rate in Australia appears to be in a slow rise from a low in late March around 20 per day to new peaks now of around 50+ per day.
South Australia has finished the month of May with 4 consecutive days with zero Covid-19 related deaths.
My Covid-19 Blog for May 2022 can be found by following the link below.
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