The latest figures show that, despite the divergent public health approach of the UK compared to the WHO recommendations, the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland COVID19 death rates for April 5th are very similar. Northern Ireland has 28.04% of the island’s population, and it has 28.51% of the island’s COVID19-related deaths.
Moreover, Northern Ireland’s ‘deaths per million of the population’ and ‘cumulative cases per million of the population’ curves are flattening at a rate similar to the South. And both curves are flatter than the UK.
Globally, the rates of increase of both cases and deaths are decreasing. This just might be significant good news in that COVID19 has now spread to practically all countries (except North Korea and Lesotho).
More graphs and analysis can be found at http://mysql02.comp.dkit.ie/mcguinnp/covid19/
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Philip McGuinness teaches at Dundalk Institute of Technology, and loves to walk around and over the wee perfect hills of the Ring Of Gullion.
