Thursday 23 April Global Update

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
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/china-coronavirus-cases-might-have-been-four-times-official-figure-says-study

Lancet study on Chinese numbers
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(20)30089-X/fulltext

NEJM Children
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2005073?query=TOC

Sneeze video
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1501197

Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions
Potential Implications for Reducing Transmission of COVID-19
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852

Australia
https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-current-situation-and-case-numbers

World meter
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Our world in data
https://ourworldindata.org

Видео Thursday 23 April Global Update канала Dr. John Campbell