Sad statistics: Estonia ranks first in the world with a relative infection rate (1)
Eestlased Kanadas | 12 Mar 2021  | EWR OnlineEWR
07.03.2021 Visit to Lääne-Tallinna Central Hospital. Photo: Henri-Kristian Kirsip
According to the Our World in Data, Estonia now ranks first in terms of new infections per million people in the last week.

Estonia is just "ahead" of the Czech Republic.


Link to this graph.

With a two-week infection rate per 100,000 people, a number which is used to imposes travel restrictions, Estonia is in second place. The Czech Republic leads with 1,562 to Estonia's 1,465.

Estonia is also at the top of the table published in The New York Times, with a relative infection rate per 100,000 inhabitants.

Source: New York Times
As of today, 658 coronary patients are treated in Estonian hospitals, 1,358 infected patients were added during the day. A new record of positive samples was set the day before yesterday - a total of 1,957 positive tests were identified.

During yesterday, a total of 11,128 vaccinations were performed in Estonia, which is the largest number of vaccinations performed in a single day so far, the Ministry of Social Affairs announced.

In total, more than 122,000 people in Estonia have been vaccinated with at least one dose, of which 50,691 have received both vaccine doses. To date, 31% of people over the age of 80 have been vaccinated with at least one dose across Estonia.

 

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Svante Pääbo Pubmed data12 Mar 2021 11:14
Svante Pääbo is a half Estonian-half Swedish researcher who has published recently on genetic sequences which protect against severe Covid-19 (see below) and also on genetic sequences which are associated with increased illness severity. Estonia seems to have both types of sequences. So does India, among others. Global distribution map is shown in publication listed below.
https://www.pnas.org/content/p...

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