Global death rankings

Is the pandemic over?

WHO, pandemic on March 11, 2020

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/weekly-epidemiological-update-on-covid-19---30-november-2022

Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 – 30 November 2022

Globally, 21 to 27 November 2022

New weekly cases, stable (+2%)

2.7 million new cases reported = 637 million confirmed cases

(full regional numbers and graphics presented)

Global new cases

Geographic spread and prevalence of VOCs 28 October to 28 November 2022

94,531 SARS-CoV-2 sequences

(mostly from high income countries)

94,485 sequences were Omicron

(99.9% of sequences reported globally)

Heterogenous testing, analysis and reporting

7 to 13 November 2022 (Globally)

BA.5 and descendent lineages, 73.0%

BQ.1 (direct descendent of BA.5) increase from 23.1% to 27.3%

(BQ.1 has over 30 descendent lineages)

BA.2 and descendent lineages, 10.1% (up from 7.9% in previous week)

BA.4 descendent lineages 2.8% (down from 3.4%)

Unassigned sequences (presumed to be Omicron), 10.1%

XBB 3.8% (recombination of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75)

BA.2.75 6.6%

BA.4.6 2.9%.

BA.2.3.20 0.4%

New weekly deaths down, 5%

Deaths, +8,400 (on the week) = 6.6 million

In context

56 million deaths per year

https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death

The number of newly reported weekly deaths, regions

African Region (-79%)

49 African countries

Deaths, + 9 deaths

European Region (-35%)

Americas (+21%)

56 countries

Deaths, + 3,821

United States, + 2611 (+16%)

Brazil + 535 (+113%)

Canada + 268 (-10%).

European Region

61 countries

Deaths, down by 35%

Deaths, + 2,254

Italy, + 419 (-22%)

France, + 387 (-25%)

Russian Federation, + 386 (-10%)

Eastern Mediterranean Region (-20%)

22 countries

Deaths, + 40

Saudi Arabia, + 11 (-21%)

Iran, + 8 (-47%)

Lebanon, +7 (0 change)

Also

Western Pacific Region (+9%)

South-East Asia Region (+5%).

The highest numbers of new weekly deaths

United States of America (2611 new deaths; +16%)

Japan (1000 new deaths; +42%)

Brazil (535 new deaths; +113%)

Italy (419 new deaths; -22%)

China (395 new deaths; -17%).

Overall trends, down