I don't have the time or energy to track all figures, so I look most at Deaths (as that also affects population numbers - one of the data sets I have been tracking for years). The current deadly hot-spots, using just the first two days of December (all data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ ) and reporting the ratio (ie deaths per million population) are:- Slovenia 54 Bulgaria 45 Hungary 33 Croatia 32 North Macedonia 30 Sweden 29 (this may be high because Sweden tends to back date cases and I don't have the information to correct that) Austria 29 Bosnia & Herzegovina 28 Poland 28 Switzerland 26 Italy 24 Czechia 21 Armenia 21 Luxembourg 21 Lithuania 21 Belgium 21 Malta 20 Greece 20
- - - It looks like Eastern Europe is being hammered at this time. As that is a region that has many countries with declining population numbers this could lead to a lot of difficulties in the future for the remaining population.
The fact that Lithuania is in the table is sad as the whole Baltic region did well (ie much better than Finland) in the first wave, but now it is experiencing above world average increases in its rates.
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