Coronavirus, Sunday Update

Global
Cases, 25, 026, 014

1,000,000 new cases every 4 days since mid-July

Deaths, 842,992

Annual deaths linked to influenza

3 - 5 million cases of severe illness

290,000 to 650,000

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(seasonal)

The effects of seasonal influenza epidemics in developing countries are not fully known

99% of deaths in children under 5 years of age with influenza related lower respiratory tract infections are found in developing countries

Protests

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-cases-face-masks-school-work/

38,000, mass rally against coronavirus restrictions, hundreds arrested, attempted to storm the Reichstag
Placards, conspiracy theories about vaccines, face masks, 5G

London, Zurich, Washington

India

1, 353, 000, 000

Continued to open up the economy

Cases, + 78,761 = 3,542,733

World record

Deaths, 63, 498

France

Tour de France

A team with two positive tests in its entourage would be expelled
UK

NHS Test and Trace system

Failed to reach its 80 per cent target for the ninth week in a row

Government paying social media influencers and reality TV stars

University and College Union (UCU)

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-universiti/british-universities-should-not-reopen-next-month-says-union-idUKKBN25Q0AN

Moving a million plus students around the country is a recipe for disaster and risks leaving ill-prepared universities as the care homes of a second wave

It is time for the government to finally take some decisive and responsible action in this crisis and tell universities to abandon plans for face-to-face teaching

Investigation: African migrants 'left to die' in Saudi Arabia’s hellish Covid detention centres

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/investigation-african-migrants-left-die-saudi-arabias-hellish/

Hundreds if not thousands of African migrants locked in heinous conditions reminiscent of Libya’s slave camps

Drive to stop the spread of Covid-19

dozens of emaciated men crippled by the Arabian heat lying shirtless in tightly packed rows in small rooms with barred windows.

died of heatstroke and that others are barely getting enough food and water to survive

Sanitation

Many held in detention since March

Racial and physical abuse

Riyadh feared the migrants, who are often housed in overcrowded conditions, would act as vectors for the virus

Everyone is sick here; everyone has something

US

Cases, 5, 961, 582

Deaths, 182, 779

Weekly COVID review

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html

Weekly hospitalization

Peaked April 18, 10.1 per 100,000

Second peak, July 18, 8.1 per 100,000

American Indian or Alaska Native, Black x 4.7

Hispanic, x 4.6

33 States reject testing guidance

CDC not looking good

Continue to recommend testing people who have been exposed to Covid-19 and have no symptoms

Metropolitan Museum of Art

South Korea

Cases, + 299

209, Greater Seoul area

Churches and nightspots to close
More schools back to remote learning nationwide

China

No local spread for 14 days
Peru

Cases, 639, 435

Deaths, 28, 607

Highest excess death rate

Hospitals have been overrun

Booming black-market in oxygen for home care

President Martín Vizcarra, one of the strictest lockdowns

First 15 weeks, allowed to leave home for food or medical attention

Private vehicles were banned

Masks were made obligatory in public

8pm curfew

Видео Coronavirus, Sunday Update канала Dr. John Campbell