Covid-19 most-affected and surging countries - Sept 7 2020

 I have made a variety of posts on the progression of Covid-19 over the last 6 months.

Here's today's update as of September 7th. All date is extracted from the Worldometer site.

Bottom line: Canada is doing quite well. Israel is having the biggest current problem.

In the tables, countries are coloured by continent. Only countries with 2 million or more inhabitants are included in the tables to avoid listing outliers (islands or very small countries that have outbreaks). I am particularly interested in how Canada is doing, along with the USA (our neighbour) and the UK (my birthplace), so I have listed these separately if they are not in the table.

The first table shows countries with the most recent surges, measured as new cases yesterday / total cases. Prominent in the list are a group of African countries, and a group of middle-eastern countries/territories (Jordan, Israel, Palestine) that border each other. Not shown in this table is the USA (rank 105, with 0.39), Canada (rank 135, 0.19) and the UK (Rank 61, 0.84)

Myanmar	6.52
Hungary	6.43
Zimbabwe	6.32
Botswana	5.83
Libya	5.76
Congo	5.38
Paraguay	3.71
Uganda	2.89
Jordan	2.7
Jamaica	2.55
Israel	2.49
Mozambique	2.48
Palestine	2.43
Nepal	2.07
Georgia	2.02

The second table shows the number of new cases yesterday per million people, showing the intensity of the ongoing pandemic there. Some countries/territories, such as Israel and Palestine show up on the above table too. Not shown is Canada, which ranks 102 (6.5 new cases/million) and UK which ranks 49 (43.4).

Countries with three stars are also listed above (surging most recently) and in the third table (overall worst affected). Countries with two stars are also in the third table, and countries/territories with one star are also in the first table.

Israel	362.2	***
Argentina	203.5	**
Kuwait	188.0	**
Costa Rica	163.2	**
Libya	157.5	*
Palestine	127.3	*
Panama	123.6	**
Paraguay	121.3	*
Iraq	106.8
Colombia	104.5	**
Chile	92.1	**
Qatar	90.1
USA	76.4	**
France	64.4
Moldova	64.0	**
Hungary	59.7
Lebanon	58.7
India	54.3
Botswana	52.5
Albania	52.5
Czechia	52.3
Spain	52.2	**
Dominican Republic	52.0
Oman	49.9
Ukraine	49.8

The third table shows the overall number of cases per million people (many of which could have been earlier in the pandemic). This shows overall how hard the countries have been hit. Canada is 66th at 3495, and the UK is 49th at 5152).

Panama	22550
Chile	22159
Kuwait	21108
Peru	20921
USA	19572
Brazil	19488
Oman	17024
Armenia	15128
Israel	14566
Colombia	13178
Spain	11240
Argentina	10779
South Africa	10755
Bolivia	10320
Moldova	9934
Singapore	9736
Costa Rica	9559
Saudi Arabia	9207
Dominican Republic	9192
Sweden	8477