Eyes on Costa Rica and Weather Records - January 2022 / Covid-19 Update

During January, visits to this blog were received from the following 13 countries:

The total number of countries and non-independent jurisdictions from which visits have been received remains at 134. Of this number, 13 are non-independent jurisdictions such as the Isle of Man, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, etc.

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The following is a summary of weather for the month in the area where we live:

January 2022 had cooler overnight lows and hotter daytime highs than January 2021. In each year, there was only one day with measurable rainfall. The relatively small amount of rain that was produced on the one day this year (0.09 inches) was actually a deluge lasting a very short period of time.

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Covid-19 Update

The following table updates information which appeared in my blog entry posted on January 11, 2022:

Since my last post, the death rates in all three countries have dropped significantly. I think this is due to the Omnicron variant which is not only much more contagious than the original Covid-19 and its Delta variant but also much less lethal. Although this may be counterintuitive for some, the death rates measured from the onset of Covid-19 and its Delta variant are muted when averaged with the much lower death rates of the many more people who contract the Omnicron variant and survive the experience.

This is borne out by what appears to be happening in Costa Rica. The Omnicron variant did not take hold in Costa Rica until a month or so after it arrived in Canada and the US. As a result, Canada moved ahead of Costa Rica with the lowest death rate (see my blog entry posted on January 11). However, as I speculated in that post, the numbers could change if the Omnicron variant took hold in Costa Rica. In fact, the numbers have changed. It once again appears that Costa Rica is handling the Covid-19 issue just as well as or better than either Canada or the US.

If you want to see how some other country is doing in comparison to Costa Rica, then visit the website of Worldometer. Numbers for populations, reported cases and reported deaths can be obtained from that site. All that is then needed is some simple math to calculate the percentage death rate for the other country and the death rate in that country compared to Costa Rica.

If you want more up to date information and statistics on the situation in Costa Rica, including various locales in Costa Rica, then the web site of the Costa Rican Ministry of Health ("Ministerio de Salud") is a good source. If you do not understand Spanish, then you should enable translation features on your web browser if they are available.

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