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Dispatches from a Pandemic: Ireland just surpassed China in confirmed COVID-19 deaths — how on earth did that happen? By Published 2 hours ago How did a small island on the northwestern periphery of Europe end up with more coronavirus cases than China, the most populous country on the planet? As of Wednesday, Ireland had confirmed 4,847 COVID-19-related deaths and 244,297 confirmed cases. China, meanwhile, had reported 4,845 deaths and only 102,294 cases. Johns Hopkins University ranks Ireland as No. 40 in the world on a list of COVID-19-related deaths per capita by country: 98 per 100,000 with a case-fatality...
