Australia
Masks will be compulsory in shops, all public transport, schools outside classrooms
Private events, limited to 50
Outdoors, limited to 100
Professionally-organised seated events, up to 1,500 indoors and 3,000 outdoors
Victoria, as 10 September 2020
Cases, + 394 (past week
Week before, + 625 cases
Majority recently diagnosed, 20 to 59 years
Hospitalised
169 patients
One week ago it 361 patients
Reopening road map
US
Reduced confidence in CDC, down 16% since April
62% worried a vaccine might be rushed
54% would not get vaccinated if it were approved before Tuesday 3rd November
Dr. Fauci
To Harvard Med School, We need to hunker down and get through this fall and winter
Campus
50,000 students tested positive
Isolation hotel
Dashboards
Hospitalizations
R values by state
India
In my city Indore in India the situation is disastrous, In last 2 weeks I have at least heard from 80-100 known contacts like friends, my cousins and friends of friends being infected with covid. Just today my neighbour who lives just around 4-5 houses away died of covid. Worst situation I have seen till now in my city. Out of these 7 people have died. I think death rate is much higher than official numbers. Please everyone do take care I am also trying to stay home as much as possible.
India
Cases, + 95, 735 + 96,551 = 4.5 million
World’s fastest growth rate
Deaths + 1, 172 + 1,209 = 76,271
+1,000 for past 10 days
Tests, 1 million per day
Spreads to smaller towns and villages
Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai, worst-hit cities
UK
Covid-19 contact tracing app, 24th September
Pilot, highly effective when used alongside traditional contact tracing to identify contacts of those who have tested positive for coronavirus
Businesses including pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas, NHS QR code posters visible
Download posters now
NHS Test and Trace (England)
27 August and 02 September
32,359 close contacts with someone who had tested positive
Where communication details were available, 79.4% were reached and asked to self- isolate
Taking into account all contacts identified, 69.2% were reached
PM briefing, 9th September
Hands – Face – Space – test
Universities not to send infected students home
500, 000 per day by end of October
The Rule of Six
Venues to keep contact details for 21 days
Mass testing (Moon Shot)
So far identify people who are positive
Identify negative allowing them to behave in a normal way
New types of scalable tests
Swabs, saliva
90 – 20 minutes
No measures therefore required, all events and venues could be on
Isolated people released
Pilot study, Salford
Indoor and outdoor venues
Test manufacture and distribution
Well rolled out by Christmas
Widespread by Spring 2021
Testing 10 m people a day
Everything would need to come together
SAGE Scientific Advisory Group for Emergences
100 billion cost
Ministers say technology does not yet exist
Test and trace better
False positives
At best 1% would be false positives
66 m population = 660,000 self-isolating per week
False negatives
Plus people with any symptoms still need to self-isolate
False sense of security
Birmingham
Population, 1.14 million
Cases, + 892 (past 7 days)
Previous 7 days, cases + 30
78.2 cases per 100,000
Patrick Valence
200 vaccines
8 in phase 3 trials
Good immune response, in elderly as well as younger people
6 vaccines booked for UK
Different types of vaccines
Manufacturing in UK for some
Next year sometime
500 medicines being looked at globally
