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Old May 5, 2022, 8:56 am
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Here is this week's data update for selected countries based on numbers collected by the ECDC. This table has been maintained weekly for some time now in this thread:
UK arrivals - pre-departure, quarantine and post-arrival [currently no requirements]
however the underlying basis of that thread has now gone away, there are no UK restrictions now, so the thread has been locked. The chart will therefore go in this thread.

The colours are historical and relate to previous UK restrictions. The first column relates to 2020, the central area to 2021 and the right side is 2022. The numbers are 14 days confirmed cases over 100,000 population. Poland is in italics since their data collection process is different to everywhere else. More background and prevous charts in the thread referenced above.



So most of this week's data is good or very good. BA.2 has clearly moved away from most of Europe, with a few exceptions such as Portugal and Spain, which had longer BA.1 epidemics. France has had a particularly large reduction in cases. The USA and Canada are seeing at least some of the impact of BA.2 now, but they benefit from the improved weather conditions which tends to constrain transmission of respiratory viruses. They will go up before they too come down. We are fortunate that almost all of Delta and previous variants are now wiped out, and there doesn't appear at this point to be a new variant after BA.2 - this of course may well change later on.
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