Te Awamutu GP Dr Peter Tribe flew to Melbourne to see his son who has cancer. He's stuck there, finding cover for the patients he was due to see next week.
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Infections, mutated variants ravaging the world The pandemic, in terms of case numbers, is a vastly different beast now than it was one year ago. Now, there are about 845,000 new cases across the world each day. This represents an increase of about 800 per cent on the same time in 2020, when the equivalent number was 92,000. The total number of recorded cases now is about 146 million which accounts for 1.8 per cent of the global population. Compare that to one year ago and the number was 2.7m infections (around 0.03 per cent of the population). This tells us Covid-19’s presence across the globe has ballooned by 5160 per cent.
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