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    in readiness for the new football season starting today, the Faroe islands now have zero cases - all 187 have recovered

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      St Pierre et Miquelon is now covid-free.

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        Mauritius is also virus free - 10 deaths, 322 recoveries

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          Western Sahara now also free - all 6 cases recovered

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            Dutch Carribean now all clear - all 6 cases recovered

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              Lesotho have troubled the scorers - first case announced today

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                G-Man You had a good run, but you're out now, sorry. First case in Lesotho.

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                  First post updated accordingly. Also updated to reflect that all the Canadian territories now have cases.

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                    Eritrea the latest country to provisionally eradicate the virus.

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                      Cambodia now all clear - 122 cases, all recovered

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                        Book that Montenegro holiday - just became covid-free today!

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                          As have the Channel Islands - Guernsey was covid-free for a few days, but Jersey has just joined them today.

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                            I'm considering at some point opening up a separate competition for which country will be the last one where Covid-19 was recorded, but to then become free of Covid-19. Though I'm not sure if the whole world will ever be free of Covid-19 now. It's taken long enough to try and eradicate polio, and if Covid-19 mutates to be less aggressive, more like seasonal flu, we're unlikely to bother completely eradicating it.

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                              Interesting article which helps explain how Samoa has avoided having any cases yet: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52900959

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                                New Zealand has announced that it is now free of Covid-19. The last active case recovered yesterday. 17 days since the last new case was recorded.

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                                  Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have contracted Covid-19. If it reaches uncontacted tribes, it could go very badly for them.

                                  https://www.newscientist.com/article...s-communities/

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                                    Did this thread actually have a "winner" ?

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                                      Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
                                      Did this thread actually have a "winner" ?
                                      A whopping 16 competitors are still in the running.

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                                        All the Pacific islands sensibly shut down on hearing the news. At some point they will presumably need supplies though.

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                                          North Korea is a doubtful survivor.

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                                            Originally posted by Sporting View Post
                                            North Korea is a doubtful survivor.
                                            Though the original criteria is "last country to announce a confirmed case" and under that criteria, North Korea may well end up being the overall winner.

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                                              That's a criterion

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                                                If I was the kind of nerd concerned about who was "winning", I'd award it to the highest population countries still in the game. But with an immense Kratochvilova and Flo-Jo sized asterisk next to longeared's winning North Korea.

                                                Hobbes's Vanuatu would be winning without the Korean cheats. And then Wouter's Samoa.

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                                                  In shock news, North Korea has reported its first suspected case of Covid-19, a dirty defector returning across the border from South Korea: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53541730

                                                  longeared must be on tenterhooks.

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                                                    Heh, this competition was the first thing that sprung to mind when I saw that story. Followed by some rather illiberal thoughts about how they might go about claiming the individual is (was) Covid free.

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