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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday/Monday, September 13-14

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… Israel, which has a population of about nine million, has reported more than 3,000 new cases a day in recent weeks.

In a televised address on Sunday, the prime minister said this had grown to 4,000 daily…

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  3. 3.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, and 10 new imported confirmed cases, 39 imported asymptomatic cases and 3 imported suspect cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines (via Japan), 1 each returning from the US, Senegal and Guinea (via France); 3 suspect cases, no information released
    • Ruili in Yunnan Province – 2 confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic, I had mentioned the case as suspect case yesterday), both Myanmese nationals coming from Mandalay (since the apartment complex where the cases were found is under lock down and all residents screened, I am not sure if the two cases went through the 14 days of mandatory quarantine
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the US and Zambia; 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines and 1 from the US
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 6 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Indonesia, 1 each from Tanzania, Kuwait, Kenya and the Philippines
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese national returning from Russia
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 18 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Jiangsu Province –  3 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Ningbo in Zhejiang Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from India
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals  returning from Saudi Arabia (via Egypt)
    • Taiyuan in Shanxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Poland

    Today, Hong Kong reported 14 new cases, 12 from local transmission, 3 without clear source of transmission.

  4. 4.

    WereBear

    @mrmoshpotato: That clip of the COVID 1k? Turns out many people started leaving after an hour of the same-old, same-old from Trump.

    Are they so accustomed to their rage-drug they need someone worse than Trump? Has the novelty worn off? Will they recover somewhat or seek worse?

  5. 5.

    Brachiator

    Conflicting #coronavirus data in Texas raises distrust of the govt. “If there’s a big backlog or delay it doesn’t reflect the actual number of people who test positive today or even 2 days ago”

    Horse puckey.  Some people go out looking for something that will confirm their distrust of the government. And Texas? Do they stop believing in their main religion, football, because a referee reviews a call and reverses a penalty?

    The situation in Singapore is crazy, but highlights how difficult it may be to control with the spread of the virus in some social spaces. But I had forgot the degree to which infections here are associated with the migrant workers.

    Singapore is battling new clusters of coronavirus infections in migrant dormitories that had won the all-clear from authorities, highlighting the difficulty of stamping out the disease, even in a closely monitored population….

    The dormitories, home to more than 300,000 workers in industries such as construction and shipbuilding, with several allocated to a room, contribute nearly 95% of Singapore’s tally of more than 57,000 infections.

    This reminds me a bit of the US and outbreaks among migrant farm and factory workers.

    And regarding social spaces:

    All local Michigan State University students have been asked to self-quarantine immediately for the next two weeks to contain the “exponential growth” of COVID-19 cases, county health officials said.

    Are any colleges successfully handling on campus student arrangements?

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. 31 new cases. 28 cases from local infection. 19 Malaysians: one in Kedah from the Sungai cluster, three from the MV Bunga shipboard cluster, nine from the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster, one senior citizen, one detected in pre-surgery screening, one screened upon referral to hospital, one screened with severe acute respiratory infection, one close contact of another case, and one police detainee. Nine non-Malaysians: one from the MV Bunga shipboard cluster, eight from the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster.

    Three imported cases: two Malaysians, returning from Indonesia; one non-Malaysian, arriving from Indonesia.

    The cumulative reported total is 9,946 cases.

    Seven more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,203 patients recovered — 92.53% of the cumulative reported total. 615 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; 11 are in ICU, five of them on respirators.

    There have been no new deaths since 1st September, and the total remains at 128 deaths — 1.29% of the cumulative reported total, 1.37% of resolved cases.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    They should clear out and shut down every university campus in America. Quarantine students, faculty and staff who have been exposed, let them go home if they test negative 14 days later. The rest should go home immediately.

  13. 13.

    p.a.

    Jeebus imagine tRumpturds then: July, 1942: “well it’s been months and this war-thing is NOT working out.  Fuckit, let’s just capitulate and get back to normal.  I have a life to lead, and this blackout thing is inconvenient and deprives me of my rights.”

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    p.a.

    @rikyrah: to paraphrase FDR: that’s right, now make me do it.  We can’t rely on Congressional Dems to have the backbone for this: past history.  We have to maintain the pressure on them and the new admin; drumpf et.al. have turned the gvt into the Augean stables.  I expect a lot of document destruction, which hopefully is an easy prosecution opportunity (IANAL).  How to unfilth the courts, IDK?

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    John S.

    I didn’t know the annual running of the bullshit took place in Nevada. I learn something new here every day!

  17. 17.

    debbie

    I just heard a couple of Trump supporters say he did the right thing by being dishonest about the seriousness of COVID-19. Because of course.

  18. 18.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — the First Minister has announced 70 new cases since Sunday with a caveat today’s numbers may not be accurate or complete due to delays in reporting over the weekend. That’s still a test positivity rate of 2.7%, a lot higher than the rate a few weeks ago when it was less than 1%. Hospital cases are slightly up.

    The new six-person meetings limit is now in force in Scotland, with a few exceptions such as weddings which have their own limits. This finally brings commonality with England and Wales which had differing size limits and conditions on meetings. The tighter meetings restrictions in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and surrounding areas continue.

    There is a developing backlog on testing and reporting results which is worrying the Scottish government and they’re asking the government in London for further talks on this situation, possibly to arrange for national-level expansion of testing facilities and support.

    Looking ahead it’s clear the government is getting warning flags raised by the scientific community about the further spread and outbreaks of this disease through the winter when people will be indoors a lot more, not able to visit pubs to use outdoor seating etc. and with less fresh-air ventilation. Right now, for example, all the buses and trams have their windows open to provide fresh air but that’s going to stop once it gets a lot colder in November and December.

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    Bluegirlfromwyo

    @debbie: Ah, yes, the trying not to cause a panic crowd. I’ve been pointing out to them that we all panicked about finding toilet paper for two months. So, that failed.

  21. 21.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    India registers a single-day spike of 94,372 new coronavirus cases, driving the country’s overall tally to 4.75 million. The Health Ministry also reports 1,114 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities up to 78,586.

    I assume this is why the maskless Trump rallies. Trump doesn’t want to consied the most deaths to India.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    @debbie:

    I just heard a couple of Trump supporters say he did the right thing by being dishonest about the seriousness of COVID-19. Because of course.

    I am sure that is the reason the Party Secretaries of Wuhan and Hubei Province kept a lid on case counts and were propagating the line of “everything under control, limited human to human transmission” back in Jan. They only kept it up for 2 – 3 weeks, though.

    Trump is truly a wannabe tin pot dictator for a banana republic, but with a cult following.

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    Sloane Ranger

    @mrmoshpotato:

     Let’s make one – virusspreadiology!

    Yes, and how long before they get captured by Big Virus, eh?

    Think about it, in order to be a Virusspreadologist you need viruses, so they’re going to co-operate with them. Much better if we don’t have anyone studying viruses, then there won’t be any!

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    Sloane Ranger

    @Robert Sneddon:

     

    There is a developing backlog on testing and reporting results which is worrying the Scottish government and they’re asking the government in London for further talks on this situation, possibly to arrange for national-level expansion of testing facilities and support.

    Sounds like a plan We have the same problem here in England with people being asked to travel hundreds of miles to be tested. One person in the North Midlands was apparently directed to a testing site in Aberdeen!

    Also, pressure on labs is so great tests are being sent to Germany and elsewhere to be processed. But not to worry, the Minister is on it!

  25. 25.

    Sloane Ranger

    My 3rd post in a row! Here are yesterdays figures from the rest of the UK.

    There were 3330 new cases reported on Sunday. about the same as for the previous couple of days but Robert Sneddon’s warning about delays due to the weekend closures of admin units still holds true so there may be a spike today or tomorrow.

    The new cases break down as follows, 2837 in England; 87 in Northern Ireland; 162 in Wales and 244 in Scotland. There were 5 new deaths, all in England.

    Testing continues to increase but that’s not really helpful if you have to travel miles to get one and then wait days for the result. Hopefully, if the British and Scottish governments actually work together, this can be sorted out. A new processing lab is due to open soon.

    Healthcare information has not been updated since I last reported it.

    Sir Keir Starmer, the Leader of the Opposition, is reported to be self isolating after “a member of his household” developed coronavirus symptoms. This person has been tested and is awaiting the results. Presumably if they come back negative he can resume normal life, otherwise, he’s locked in for at least 14 days. I pray he doesn’t catch it or has mild symptoms if he does, we are almost level with the Tories in the opinion polls and we don’t want anything to deflect from that.

    In other, related, news the Government contact tracing app for England and Wales will be launched on 24 September, joining Scotland, which already has one up and running.

  26. 26.

    J R in WV

    @rikyrah:

    • Biden needs to clean house at the CDC
    • The FBI
    • the DOJ
    • the USPS
    • Medicare Medicaid
    • Education
    • Department of Homeland Security
    • Bureau of Prisons
    • U S Marshall service (esp. if they murdered that guy!)
    • Bureau of Land Management
    • NOAA — about those hurricanes? (ok tongue in cheek here)
    • State Department
    • HUD

    I know there are some others, and some of these probably are inside others I have listed, but it’s a starting place. We will need more prosecutors once DOJ is cleaned out, because you know most of these Trump appointees have been stealing stuff.

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    Another Scott

    I heard a report on the BBC last night that included an interview with someone who was critical of Bibi’s decision to lock down the country (vs doing a targeted lockdown in areas where the spread was the greatest). He pointed out a couple of issues with the upcoming restriction that people have to stay within 500 m of their homes:

    1) The Jewish holidays coming up means that lots of people want to be with their families, so it’s putting a huge burden on them.
    2) Much of the most severe spread is in areas with the most orthodox religious views, so it wasn’t politically tenable for Bibi to just lock those areas down (since he needs their support to stay PM and stay out of prison).
    3) There have been large demonstrations against Bibi for weeks and they are continuing. Having a nationwide lockdown means that he can prevent those demonstrations from continuing and lessen danger to his continued rule. For a while anyway.

    tl;dr – It’s not just the USA where politics is driving the national COVID-19 response. And the longer this goes on, the more likely that political responses will become even more prevalent.

    Grrr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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