COVID-19 Around the World
After Victoria’s long and difficult coronavirus lockdown, it’s now the envy of the world
After Victoria’s long and difficult coronavirus lockdown, it’s now the envy of the world.
On August 5, Victoria’s seven-day average of daily new cases reached 533, the worst numbers seen anywhere in Australia.
Several other countries had similar numbers around that time, including Canada, Japan, Singapore, and most of Europe.
They had taken different paths to get there; for Europe, these numbers represented a low ebb, not a peak.
But the trajectories after this period diverged even more dramatically.
As the chart below shows, case numbers in several European countries began to accelerate steeply and are now much worse than ever. In contrast, Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Singapore, and Australia have so far kept case numbers at a moderate level.
