So this is the kind of chart that we have all become familiar with over the past few weeks. The relaxation of lock-down rules over December and Christmas led to a huge spike in cases. The ‘3rd wave’ far surpassed the ‘1st’ and ‘2nd’ waves. Sadly, the massive spike in cases led to a massive spike in deaths too, about 10 to 14 days later as we can see below.
Commiserations to all those who have lost loved ones. It has been a very difficult period, both losing loved ones and being unable to meet or hug your loved ones, families, parents.
However, 2021 has also seen the introduction of vaccines. Some countries like Israel have been flying along and have nearly half their population vaccinated. They may even have achieved that milestone by the time you read this.
The numbers on the y-axis (on the left hand side) represent percentage of the population that have been vaccinated.
If we remove Israel, we can see how other countries including ourselves have been doing.
The United Kingdom and the United States have been doing pretty well. C. 10% and 6% of their populations have been vaccinated. Ireland, after a slow start is getting there, at about 2.5% of its population. But daily vaccination numbers will have to be massively ramped up, even to get our population vaccinated this year.
Below, you can see what the daily numbers for Ireland are like.
As always, if you click on the pictures they will bring you to a dashboard which is updated at least daily.
Or you can click below