Pandemic diary – July 2022

Saturday, 2 July 2022
There are three EU countries in which on average every second citizen has been tested positive once since the beginning of the pandemic. Now comes the ranking of countries with the biggest percent of population having gone through an infection (which is a bit of a distortion, since it does not take into account reinfections, quite frequent in 2022):
1. Denmark: 51.71%,
2. Portugal: 51.01%,
3. Slovenia: 50.02%.

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The 7-day average number of new infections rises above 500 for the first time since 11 May 2022 (with meagre testing).

Friday, 8 July 2022
The health minister Niedzielski (known also as the master of disaster / minister zagłady) proclaims mass testing (I would call it “any access to publicly funded testing) will be resumed once hospitalisations on account of COVID-19 reach 5,000 at one time. Belarus is the only other country geographically situated in Europe where the virus is swept under the carpet.

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
The 7-day average number of new infections rises above 1,000 for the first time since 26 April 2022. In 2021 the figure was crossed on 2 October, in 2020 on 26 September. On top, average testing volume is some 9 times lower than in two previous years, around the days when 1 one thousands of new infections were hit. “Autumn” has come early this year…

Saturday, 16 July 2022
In a sanatory where my mother has resided since 30 June for a 4-week recovery stay COVID-19 is rampant. Fortunately, mum remains healthy, but fewer and fewer people are around. In the absence of testing, each symptomatic patient is deported home, but sadly some of the elderly patients are taken to hospitals.

Sunday, 17 July 2022
The 7-day average number of cases worldwide inclines above 1,000,000 for the first time since early April 2022. The virus cares little about the summertime in the northern hemisphere.

Friday, 22 July 2022
The 7-day average number of new infections rises above 2,000 for the first time since 6 April 2022. In 2021 the figure was crossed on 14 October, in 2020 on 6 October. And those figures come out in the absence of mass testing, hence the estimated daily number of infections in Poland probably reaches 50,000.

Thursday, 28 July 2022
My mother returns from the sanatory which has been a hotbed of the virus for three weeks and has not been ill. Time to sign my parents up for the second booster.

Edit: off for the August long weekend into the mountains, hence next posting comes up on 21 August.