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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Tuesday-Wednesday, July 28-29

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 98 new domestic confirmed cases and 19 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 89 new confirmed cases (43 are previously asymptomatic, already under quarantine), and 15 new asymptomatic cases. 3 case are in critical condition, and 17 in serious condition. The Ürumqi outbreak so far has 322 confirmed cases (320 in Ürumqi, 1 each at Kashgar and Xinjiang Construction Corps), and 133 asymptomatic cases (130 in Urumqi, 2 in Changji Prefecture, 1 in Xinjiang Construction Corps), plus 1 asymptomatic case exported to Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. There are 9121 close contacts under quarantine and medical observation.

    Nearly two weeks after the lock down of the Ürumqi (though not as intense as the one in Wuhan), the case count has still yet to peak, indicating a more widespread outbreak than either the Beijing Xinfadi outbreak or the current Dalian outbreak. Ürumqi only has a population of ~ 3.5M. Most of these cases are being identified from the mass screening. I am beginning to understand why the city’s authorities went into large scale lock down and mass screening so early. The initial contact tracing must have revealed some truly concerning indications (though no such information have been published) about the potential scope of the outbreak. Without these measures, each of the dozens of cases being identified everyday will still be infecting other people.

    Dalian in Liaoning Province reported 8 new confirmed cases and 4 new asymptomatic cases. All confirmed cases were previously identified as asymptomatic. The outbreak in Dalian has a total of 52 confirmed cases (30 are workers of the import seafood processing plant, 9 are their close contacts, 9 are residents of the Dalian Bay sub-district, 4 are close contacts of confirmed/asymptomatic cases who do not work at the seafood processing plant). Dalian also has 34 asymptomatic cases (23 are workers of the import seafood processing plant, 2 are their close contacts, 4 are residents of the Dalian Bay sub-district, 5 are close contacts of confirmed/asymptomatic cases who do not work at the seafood processing plant ). Additionally, 5 confirmed and 9 asymptomatic cases have been exported to the rest of China.

    3.52M individuals in Dalian have already been tested since the start of the outbreak on 7/21.

    Beijing Municipality added a 2nd confirmed case, the daughter of the confirmed case from 7/27. The 7/27 case visited Dalian in mid-Jul. and had dinner with an asymptomatic case. She lived with her daughter upon returning to Beijing. Residential building unit of the family’s apartment is under lock down for 14 days, and the 10K resident in the community will be tested in the next day or so.

    Two days ago, Hong Kong reported that a truck driver doing delivery runs to Mainland China had tested positive. The case had just spent a few days in Shenzhen and Dongguan before returning to Hong Kong. In the past two days, Shenzhen authorities has identified 9 close contacts and 4 regular contacts of the Hong Kong truck driver, all having tested negative and are still under quarantine. In addition, 3009 individuals working in the plant or living in the residential compound where the Hong Kong case had visited have all been tested, all have tested negative. Fenggang Township in Dongguan has identified 9 close contacts, all have tested negative and are still under quarantine. A further 1169 individuals and 101 environmental samples have been tested from restaurants and entertainment venues the Hong Kong case had visited, all are negative.

    Yesterday, China reported 3 new imported confirmed cases, 8 imported asymptomatic case

    Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese nationals returning from Singapore

    Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, Chinese nationals returning from Iran and Singapore; 4 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals. 3 from Singapore, and 1 from Saudi Arabia

    Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic case, both Chinese nationals returning from Singapore

    Today, Hong Kong reported 118 new cases, 113 from local transmission.

  2. 2.

    terben

    In Australia today:

    319 new cases, total 15,583. Recovered 9,619

    9 new deaths, total 176. 7 of the 9 were in aged care facilities.

    66k tests carried out, cumulative total 4.1m.

    The story of the virus in Australia currently is mostly about the state of Victoria:

    295 new cases, total, 9304. Deaths, 92. Tests performed 18,000 today, 1.55m total.

    All deaths in the country today were in Victoria, in fact the most recent death in another state was 68 days ago in NSW.

    In my state, South Australia, there were no new cases today, despite 16,000 tests. Since the beginning of testing there have been 448 positive tests out of 229,000 performed.

    In NSW, new cases have been running in double figures, but less than 20, for a week or more. Many are related to pubs, clubs and restaurants in suburban Sydney.

  3. 3.

    WereBear

    To give the flavor of these times, I woke up yesterday, saw that Demon Sperm was trending on Twitter, and went ho-hum. Another day in Trump Paradise…

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    Sorry I’m late. Afternoon doctor’s appointment.

    Malaysia’s daily numbers seem to be coming back down from the recent spike, touch wood. 13 new cases. Five from local infection: three Malaysians, two non-Malaysians. Eight cases from imported infection: four Malaysians, returning from the UK (two), Pakistan, and the Philippines: four non-Malayaians, arriving from Gambia, Ukraine, and India (two). Cumulative total 8,956 cases.

    Five more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,512 recovered or 96.2% of the cumulative total. 220 patients with active and contagious cases are being isolated/treated in hospital; two are in ICU, one of them is on a respirator.

    No new deaths. Total is 124 deaths, 1.38% of the cumulative total and 1.42%  of resolved cases.

  5. 5.

    Patricia Kayden

    .@kaitlancollins: The woman you say is a 'great doctor' said masks don't work & doctors make medicine using DNA from aliens-TRUMP: "I can tell you this: She was on air, along with many other doctors, & they were big fans of hydroxychloroquine. I thought she was very impressive" pic.twitter.com/nSui8DOLDL— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 28, 2020

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    Bruce K

    Greece had a bad day yesterday, according to Kathimerini: 52 infections, of which only 7 were traced to points of entry. Masks are now mandatory in supermarkets, public transport, retail shops, public service offices, banks, food store, bakeries, and elevators. (The mask order doesn’t end to churches.)

    Those numbers may seem like a drop in a bucket compared to US numbers, but for Greece, that’s not good.

  9. 9.

    lowtechcyclist

    “The Daily Beast did a great job summarizing our deliverance ministry and exposing incubus and succubus.” – ‘Dr.’ Stella Immanuel

    ‘Deliverance ministry.’  I once knew a woman, back in the early 1970s, who also said she had a ‘deliverance ministry.’  Hadn’t run across that phrase a single time in the decades since.  Until just now, of course.  Can’t say I’d missed it.

  11. 11.

    Keith P.

    @Patricia Kayden: The real beauty in there was Trump’s initial attempt to claim that maybe Dr. Immanuel* wasn’t the same woman as the alien DNA lady.

    * How much you want to bet that Trump that she was Ari and Zeke’s sister?

  12. 12.

    Patricia Kayden

    The Daily Beast has audio from the Pence COVID task force call with governors. Doctors Birx and Fauci advocated for mask mandates in several states just before Trump went out and defended that viral video (that lies) about not needing to wear a mask. https://t.co/b5a2JSRcQd— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 29, 2020

  13. 13.

    p.a.

    Another result of tRumpturd admin. incompetence is our reduced ability to help worldwide at other hotspots as our misallocated (IF allocated) resources have to focus here.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    There was a big crowd gathered outside the KL High Court yesterday — mostly supporters of the former Malaysian Official One*, ex-PM Najib Tun Razak. There was no social distancing, per the onscene videos, and some angry chanting after the verdict and sentence came down. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, commenting on the reports, said he was very disappointed.

    *You guys might remember that this is what the FBI called him in its 1MDB-related public statements.

  15. 15.

    prostratedragon

    Frequently seen catchphrase lately in twitter comments on worrisome covid statistics: “This is a bit misleading without context.”
     There often follows a non sequitur [something that doesn’t follow].

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    Brachiator

    It is worrying that some of the countries which seemingly had virus cases under control are now seeing outbreaks.

    Worse case scenario: lockdowns and other current attempts at flattening the curve at best provide temporary relief. Once people start moving back into social spaces, outbreaks become almost inevitable.

    This might mean that it is not simply a case of re-opening too soon.

    The Rona is a tricky SOB. We may have to work a little harder to contain it while we try to get an effective vaccine.

  17. 17.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland update — the National Record of Scotland which deals with birth and death certificates reports eight people died last week where COVID-19 was listed on the death certificate. Apparently four of them died in hospital, two in care homes and two at home.

     

    The First Minister is currently (local time 12:30 p.m.) giving a press briefing and is reporting that 22 people in Scotland have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, that’s 0.7% of all tests carried out over the same period. Fourteen of those cases appear to be a cluster in the Glasgow area, further investigation into that is going on. No deaths of confirmed cases have been reported in the past 24 hours.

  18. 18.

    Sab

    People have lost their minds. SIL planning birthday party for her spouse. In the yard, with caterer. In a tony Republican suburb with really high covid rates where nobody wears masks or social distances. SIL and our generation are 60+ in age. Kids are all in their 30s or 40s. Big families. If big turnout it will be 50+ people.

    I am aghast. This family already had the first reported Covid19 case in the county back in March because ignored quarantine rules.

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    @WereBear:

    To give the flavor of these times, I woke up yesterday, saw that Demon Sperm was trending on Twitter, and went ho-hum. Another day in Trump Paradise…

    And I thought that Murder Hornets were all that we had to worry about.

    You know. Apart from the pandemic and our lunatic president.

  21. 21.

    Brachiator

    @Sab:

    People have lost their minds. SIL planning birthday party for her spouse. In the yard, with caterer.

    At least they are having the celebration outside. And no one will be in the kitchen doing cooking. Still, I would not attend this thing. I might do a spreadsheet and try to note the attendees, doing a little unofficial track and trace.

  22. 22.

    Sab

    @Brachiator: Track and trace is a good idea.

    Governor Dewine tells anecdotes about the bad results of events like this, but apparently nobody watches Wine with Dewine anymore.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @Brachiator: This is what most of the early articles on controlling COVID predicted–at least, the saner ones. A place would clamp down hard, get infection to a low level, then relax restrictions periodically… and clamp down again when that led to new outbreaks. With luck, you’re flexible enough that you can keep it from getting too bad. You could eliminate COVID entirely by shutting down your economy completely for a very long time but nobody’s actually going to do that.

    Unfortunately, a bunch of fools decided this roadmap meant you could reopen on a fixed schedule even if the infections were still raging out of control! Obviously, if you’re not one of them you can do a lot better.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Here in England we seem to be stabilising at an average of around 725 new cases a day but there are worryiing signs of spikes occuring in the north. Oldham, Lancashire has joined Leicester in having a local lockdown imposed. There were over 100 deaths reported a few days ago but generally we’re down to double figures.

    The government is worried we will see a new spike as other European countries are experiencing. Hence their swift response to the recent spike in Spain. Some are complaining that they overreacted but this is one Tory government decision I fully support.

  29. 29.

    Sab

    @KenK: We will miss it. A shame because I am very fond of the birthday boy, but we are pretty much in lockdown.

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