COVID – 19, Thursday 22nd April
Ramadan 23 April – 23 May
Mosques closed
Virtual Iftar
UK high risk groups advised not to fast in UK
Diabetes
Dehydration
Convalescence
Pregnancy
Global
2, 639, 243 184,268
US
842,624 cases
46,785 deaths
Robert Redfield, Cases in the fall
First confirmed deaths 6th and 17th Feb
No history of travel
Checkback to December in California
LA County, hospitalisations still rising
2 cats test positive in NY State
8 lions and tigers in Bronx zoo infected
Georgia
20,000 confirmed cases
800 deaths
No 2-week decline
Significant reopening in 48 hours
At work, masks and gloves, staggered shifts, 6 feet
President strongly disagrees
Las Vegas, mayor want casinos reopening
China
83, 876 cases
4, 636 deaths
Cases + 30 + 10 cases
No deaths yesterday
Li Zehua has reappeared after 2 months
Lancet study; Tracking case numbers over time is important to establish the speed of spread and the effectiveness of interventions.
Health and Medical Research Fund, Hong Kong
If the same case definition had been used throughout the epidemic.
Tracking case numbers over time is important to establish the speed of spread and the effectiveness of interventions.
Feb 20, 2020, 232 000 in China as opposed to the 55 508 confirmed cases reported.
UK
134,639 cases
Deaths 18,159
Testing 23,000 per day (40,000 available)
10 – 16 m items of PPE per day
Liverpool
11th March 3,000 football fans from Spain went to Liverpool
54,000 at the game
Closed doors in Spain
UK social distancing started 17th March
250,000 Cheltenham festival, March 10th – 13th, 250000 people
Oxford human vaccine trials start today
NZ
1, 451 cases
Deaths 16
13 – 14th March
Testing across the country helps identify cases of COVID-19 early
Manage clusters of cases and track how well our efforts are working
Surveillance testing – testing of a wider population to make sure there are not undetected cases – is also being carried out in parts of New Zealand.
‘We’re going hard and we’re going early. We only have 102 cases, but so did Italy once.’
R0 less than 1
28th April moving out of lockdown
Africa
24,000 + cases
1,100 deaths, the World Health Organization reported on Thursday morning.
Dr. Tedros said he believes that Africa is still at the beginning of its coronavirus outbreak.
Spain
+ 435 + 440 deaths = 22,157
New cases + 4,635 = 213,024
Germany
Cases + 2,352 = 148,046
Deaths + 215 = 5,094.
Russia
+ 4,774 = 62,773
Third day of reductions
Deaths + 42 = 555
Afghanistan
Biggest one-day rise of cases
+ 83 = 1,226
Cases in China may be higher
Lancet study on Chinese numbers
NEJM Children
Sneeze video
Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions
Potential Implications for Reducing Transmission of COVID-19
Australia
World meter
Our world in data
