“COVID-19 infection and death rates have fallen to their lowest seen since early 2020, with Japan recording an average of 108 cases and one death per day in the last week.”
QUICK FACTS:
- Region-wide, Covid-19 cases have been dropping across Asia since early September, Forbes reports.
- Total Covid-19 infections are fading in Asian countries Japan, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Cambodia.
- “After recording nearly 200,000 cases per day on Sept. 1, the region is recording 43,000 cases per day as of Thursday, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, meaning the entire continent is logging roughly a third of the daily cases in the United States,” according to Forbes.
- The region’s vaccination rates and social distancing measures cannot fully explain Asia’s case decline because Indonesia, the Philippines, and India have only fully vaccinated 37%, 36%, and 35% of their populations, respectively.
- These vaccination rates are “well below levels that might be required to achieve vaccine-induced herd immunity. Still, infections are dropping in all three countries,” writes Forbes.
- “Indonesia is recording its lowest level of daily COVID-19 infections since April 2020, with cases falling to 236 from 50,000 in July. The Philippines and India are also recording their lowest daily COVID rates in 18 months.”
- Michael Toole, an epidemiologist at Australia’s Burnet Institute, says these countries have likely achieved a “high level of natural immunity.”
- Studies show the efficacy of previous natural infection—as opposed to vaccination—as protection against reinfection with Covid-19 is “85% or greater.”
- The immunity people receive after recovering from coronavirus naturally is better than the protection gained from vaccination, according to a new study from Israel. In fact, researchers analyzing data from the county’s health database found both Covid-19 infections and severe disease were higher among the vaccinated than those who recovered naturally, The Epoch Times reports.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith and author of “An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing & How to Fix It.“
