Day: 2 May 2022

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of May 2, 2022, at 4:20pm EST.

On Monday, health officials in the US logged 15,830 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 83.1 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 97.1% are considered recovered. As of 4 pm, authorities have reported 36 Covid-related deaths for a total of 1,020,906 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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Statistics Canada explains gender and sex gaps

TORONTO – Sometimes, like the Starship Enterprise of the 1970s sci-fi sitcom, a country’s official Statistics gatherer discovers data that supports or disproves long held assumptions. It is an expensive exercise, but at least it offers a “scientific” – numerical basis (justification) – for some public policy developments/responses to a country’s emerging problems. 

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