Sunday COVID Update: 5,916 new infections, news briefs

[Thaiger]

Sunday morning the public health department has announced 5,916 new infections and 44 Covid-related deaths. 39 of the total are attributed to Thai prisons. The report indicates a stabilisation of numbers after 3 days hovering around the 6,000-per-day level of new cases. But Sundays often return lower-than-usual reports (let’s hope we’re wrong on that today). Around the world the drastic drop in new daily cases since the middle of April has now flattened out and is starting to trend upward again, although the trend of daily death stats continues to fall. The number of deaths from the Coronavirus pandemic will […]

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[JamesE]

29 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

although the trend of daily death stats continues to fall.

Throughout the pandemic deaths are a two week trailing response. Cases go up by X and, two weeks later, deaths go up by roughly X * F. (Where F is the current fatality rate.)