COVID-19 surging in Indonesia, South Africa; world toll down 5%
July 4 (UPI) -- COVID-19 has dominated Asia, originating in Mainland China 1/2 years ago, spreading to India a few months ago and now surging in Indonesia, with 35% increase in deaths and 38% cases in the island nation.
With the pandemic nearing 4 million fatalities at 3,992,977, one-fifth of them have occurred in Asia at 801,389 but fourth behind No. 1 South America, No. 2 Europe and No. 3 North America. The continent has the most cases with 56,419,328 of the total 184,545,475 Sunday, according to tracking by Worldometers.info.
In the past week globally, deaths declined by 5% and cases rose 3% as South Africa remained a hot spot with nearly a 50% rise in deaths and 28% in cases.
Asia's deaths dropped 9% with 16,453, and cases increased 8% with a total of 1,001,813.
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Mostly in low vaccinated areas and Dr. Fauci said of those deaths, 99.2% were among the unvaccinated. And those are deaths, not just cases. So much for the post-pandemic "opening up" of this country in time for summer... 