Friday update

UK, cases rising

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

Public Health England

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-18-june-2021

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-variants-identified-in-uk

Delta up by 33,630 since last week, now 75,953

99% of sequenced and genotyped cases across the country

Increased risk of hospitalisation with Delta compared to Alpha

As of 14 June

806 hospitalised with the Delta variant

Up 423 since last week

Of these,

527 were unvaccinated

84 of the 806 had received both doses

Majority of Delta cases were confirmed less than 28 days ago

Dr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive, UK Health Security Agency

Cases are rising rapidly across the country and the Delta variant is now dominant.

primarily in younger age groups, a large proportion of which were unvaccinated

Please make sure that you come forward to receive both doses of the vaccine as soon as you are eligible.

Don’t drop your guard – practise ‘hands, face, space, fresh air’ at all times.

Change in presentation

Cold like features

Symptoms now (since May)

Headache

Sore throat

Runny nose

Fever

Cough

No loss of smell

US, past week

Cases, down 23.7%

Deaths, down 31%

Hospitalizations, down 8.8%

Positivity rate, 1.9%

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases

Israel

Seven-day incidence, 1.3 cases per 100,000 people

BioNTech-Pfizer and some Moderna

Sending 1.4 million doses to West Bank, PA

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-vaccine-doses-palestinians/2021/06/18/73f8b67a-d013-11eb-a224-bd59bd22197c_story.html

Cooperative management of vaccine stocks

(Already supplied HCWs and 100,000 workers)

Chile

https://www.dw.com/en/chile-fresh-curfews-despite-vaccination-program-success/a-57890946




Most doses, Sinovac, inactivated virus vaccine

Brazilian gamma variant, mostly

Twice as infectious as the original virus

Santiago ICUs at capacity

Pandemic fatigue

False sense of security

Chinese vaccine to Malaysia

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-says-china-contribute-500000-doses-sinovac-vaccines-2021-06-16/

500,000 doses of Sinovac BioTech

Chinese vaccine to Brazil

Brazil seeking to diversify supply

60 million doses of CanSino

Second half of 2021

$17 per dose

Russia

Cases, + 13,397 = 5,220,168

(Moscow, cases, + 5782)

Deaths, + 396 = 127,576

Federal statistics agency, deaths = 270,000

Moscow

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jun/16/coronavirus-live-news-new-york-hits-70-vaccination-target-japan-considering-10000-fans-at-olympics

Mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, Covid situation 'dramatic'

12,000 people currently hospitalised in Moscow

Kim Jong Un

Cases, 0

Brace for extended Covid restrictions

Warns of food shortages

Indonesia

Population, 270 million

Cases, + 9,868 = 1.9 million

Deaths, 53,000

Stricter social distancing measures

Offices at 25% capacity

Delta variant more dominant

Jakarta, hospital capacity under stress

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