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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Saturday/Sunday, September 26-27

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 14 new imported confirmed cases and 27 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 4 confirmed case, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria and 1 from Russia; 10 asymptomatic case, 5 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria, 2 from Russia and 1 each from the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Australia
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Indonesia and the Philippines 
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 confirmed cases (previously asymptomatic), all Chinese nationals returning from the Ethiopia
    • Dalian in Liaoning Province – 2 confirmed cases (previously asymptomatic), both Filipino crew members off a cargo ship
    • Yingkou Port in Liaoning Province – 2 confirmed cases, both Filipino crew members off a cargo ship
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Indonesia, and Bangladesh; 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Indonesia, Myanmar and Saudi Arabia
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed case case, a Chinese student returning from the US
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 5 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Ecuador and the Ukraine
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Angola (via Lisbon)
    • Nanchang in Jiangxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines (via South Korea); the case had entered China at Guangzhou on 9/10, passed through 14 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative twice, then the case traveled to Nanchang, and tested positive during routine screening, IgM and IgG antibodies are positive, as well

    Today, Hong Kong reported 6 new cases, 1 from local transmission, source of transmission is unknown.

  2. 2.

    Tony Jay

    Good Morning everybody.

    The relentless determination of the entire British Media to refer to the publically funded but privately run Serco/Deloitte Test and Trace monopoly as the NHS Test and Trace system is a relatively small but very revealing editorial choice that tells you everything you need to know about the partisan slant of our Infotainment industry.

    They’ve been told, often and with increasing volume, that mislabelling this badly run shambles of a private body as part of the NHS is deliberately misleading but they keep on doing it. After this long there can only be one explanation for this ‘error’. They want to mislead the public. It’s deliberate misinformation.

    I suppose this is how the British journalistic community auditions for roles in the Fox News clone being launched here next year. Just what we need.

    I hate these people, and boy, do they deserve my hate.

  4. 4.

    YY_Sima Qian

    I am a bit surprised that China has chosen to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people under Emergency Use Authorization. The purpose surely is not to push forward validation of vaccine candidate along. The candidates in Phase III are already deemed generally safe (or they would not have gotten out of Phase II), but one cannot father data on efficacy no matter how many people one vaccinated, given that COVID-19 has essentially been eradicated in China. To me, it suggests that the EUA vaccinations are risk mitigation efforts, in anticipation of a 2nd wave in the fall/winter, despite all of the control and prevention measures.

    Of course, with China’s population, a few hundred thousand is not a large number. The People’s Liberation Army has at least 2M members, the paramilitary People’s Armed Police has 1.5M, the Police force nearly 2M. Other law enforcement organizations, such as the Customs, and Urban Management, also number in the millions. There are millions of medical personnel in China. Never mind the people working in public transportation, education, cold chain logistics, delivery services, markets, etc. The state own enterprises have 10s of millions of employees, and 10s to 100s of thousands of employees of state owned and private enterprises are station abroad in Latin America, the Middle East, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa. Maybe that is why China is looking to expand the EUA campaign.

    On the hand, even vaccinating millions of people under EUA probably will not have much impact on the course of new outbreaks.

    China probably feels confident that the top 4 domestic vaccine candidates are safe, and anticipate at least decent efficacy. The CCP regime is certainly capable of covering up a few cases of severe adverse reactions (hundreds or thousands of such cases would be a different matter). In any case, the regime’s habitual secrecy is doing it no favors.

  5. 5.

    matt

    When an entitled elite person says ‘nobody thought’ they mean they didn’t think it was the right idea at the time and nobody came and changed their mind in time so bygones.

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    As if 2020 wasn’t already bad enough: Texas residents warned of tap water tainted with brain-eating microbe

    Texas officials have warned residents of some communities near Houston to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality warned the Brazosport Water Authority late on Friday of the potential contamination of its water supply by Naegleria fowleri.

    The commission issued an advisory warning people not to use tap water for any reason except to flush toilets in Lake Jackson, Freeport, Angleton, Brazoria, Richwood, Oyster Creek, Clute and Rosenberg.

    Those communities are home to about 120,000 people. Also affected are the Dow Chemical works in Freeport, which has 4,200 employees, and the Clemens and Wayne Scott state prison units, which have 2,345 inmates and 655 employees.

    The advisory will remain in place until the Brazosport authority’s water system has been thoroughly flushed and tests on water samples show the system’s water is safe to use. It said in a statement that it was unclear how long it would be before the tap water was safe.

    There must be a special place in God’s heart for Texas.

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    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily CoviD-19 numbers. 150 new cases, for a cumulative reported total of 10,919 cases.

    146 cases from local infection. 124 are Malaysians. 22 are non-Malaysians. Four are imported cases. It’s past 7pm here and the Health Ministry has still not tweeted the usual full breakdown of new cases so this is all I have. If they do tweet these stats later tonight, I will update.

    50 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,835 patients recovered — 90.07% of the cumulative reported total. 950 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; six are in ICU, four of them on respirators.

    One new CoviD-19 death was reported today, in Sabah. This brings the total to 134 deaths — 1.23% of the cumulative reported total, 1.34% of resolved cases.

    In other news, the enhanced movement control order in the vicinity of Tawau prison including its officers’ quarters in Sabah, which is part of the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, is extended to 9th October. Also, effectivr today, all individuals arriving from Sabah are subject to CoviD-19 screening and a 14-day home surveillance and observation order, which includes the pink quarantine bracelet.

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    TS (the original)

    It has taken Melbourne about 8 weeks to go from its maximum of 700+ cases in one day – to less than 20 per day – and this is way higher than any other part of Australia. Most of our new cases are from overseas travellers in quarantine (compulsory for anyone entering the country) with a few recent cases being people taken from offshore cargo ships.

    Despite there have been whinges and a few protests and arguments between the states and political nonsense from the PM & his offsider, people have in the main followed the rules – and been given large fines if they did not.

    This does make me wonder a little about the people of my country. Do we just consider we need to do this to get rid of covid-19 or are we ready to bow to authority for virtually any reason? We are supposedly a freethinking, non-authoritarian group of people who do as we please and live life to the full – yet we shut down when told by our political leaders and stopped doing anything that would extend the life of this virus with little complaint.

    Not sure what I should be thinking any more and am slightly worried that  there may be lots of Stockholm syndrome happening. Personally, despite living in a state with virtually no current concerns about the virus – I am still not going out for other than essential purposes.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    @TS (the original):

    For what it’s worth, I would not equate public health measures against a contagious and potentially lethal illness with political oppression. It is not the government that’s threatening to kill you if you don’t comply, it’s the virus.

    If you willingly obey these admittedly draconian restrictions, does it mean you’re becoming subservient? I don’t believe so. We expect government to inform us and tell us what to do in a public emergency like this. That’s the deal between us and the government. And in this situation, if the government is competent, then we aren’t being bossed around arbitrarily. We have an entirely rational reason to comply with CoviD-19 measures: for our own sake, and for the sake of those around us.

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    Jesse

    Regarding the US being (essentially) the only place where anti-lockdown protests are happening, or where corona conspiracy  theories thrive:

     

    I used to think that, too, early on. But those things have happened, and continue to happen, in Germany, too. It baffles the public here; they just hang their heads.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    Let’s make “Czechia” a thing (short name for the Czech Republic). Proposed in 1993, offically approved in 2016.

  19. 19.

    Zinsky

    @A Ghost to Most:  Great line!  I love it!

    Where I live (Minnesota) many of the elementary schools here are going back to full in-person classes, Big Ten football is starting up again as are many high school football conferences – at a time when the CDC rates the community spread here as “uncontrolled”.  It makes no sense and seems destined to fail.  My wife was in Target yesterday and there was a flash mob of anti-maskers who formed in the back of the store and started chanting anti-mask slogans and other sophomoric anti-social rhetoric.

    And Minnesota is one of the more liberal, well-educated states in the country!  We don’t stand a chance, folks….

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    Amir Khalid

    Finally, three hours late, Malaysia’s case breakdown has been tweeted out. Here we go:

    146 cases from local infection. 124 of them are Malaysians. 102 are in Sabah, comprising 55 from the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster, 12 from the Bangau-bangau cluster, four from the Bakau cluster, nine from the Pulau cluster, eight from the Sakong Village cluster, three from Buang Sayang cluster, eight symptomatic persons, one detected in community screening,one person screened before returning to Sarawak, and one close contact of another case; 10 are in Selangor, comprising eight returning from a high-risk zone in the country (which must mean Sabah), and two close contacts of another case; three are in KL, comprising two from the Setapak cluster and one person returning from a high-risk zone in the country; four are in Pahang, comprising one close contact of another case and three persons returning from a high-risk zone in the country; two in Johore, both returning from a high-risk zone in the country; two are in Sarawak, detected in workplace screenings; and one is in Melaka, a person returning from a high-risk zone in the country;

    22 new cases are non-Malaysians, all in Sabah, comprising three from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster,  eight from the Bangau-bangau cluster, nine from the Bakau cluster, one from the Pulau cluster, and one person screened with influenza-like illness.

    Four new cases are imported. Three are Malaysians, arriving from Saudi Arabia (two) and India; one is a non-Malaysian, arriving from Saudi Arabia.

    Malaysia’s 134th CoviD-19 death was an 81-year-old woman who was diagnosed on 22nd September.

  21. 21.

    bjacques

    @Josie: I hear ya. But being from that corner of Texas, I can’t say I disagree. The affected area is bounded by 288 (Nolan Ryan Expressway) and I45-South (Gulf Freeway), the stomping grounds of my intermediate and high school acquaintances who suddenly resurfaced on Faecebook a few months to rant QAnonsense at me.

    My fam hail from the NASA area, safely east of Gulf Freeway-Old Galveston Road buffer zone.

    COINCIDENCE!?1?

  22. 22.

    Jinchi

    barred student fans from football games.

    So…. are they allowing non-student fans at the football games?

  23. 23.

    Jinchi

    @matt: Trump uses the phrase “nobody knew” with abandon.

    • Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.
    • Nobody knew how many people die from the flu.
    • Nobody knew there would be a pandemic.
    • Nobody knew Lincoln was a Republican.
    • Nobody knew about executive orders.
    • Nobody knew about bin Laden until 9/11.

    It was always clear that Trump thinks he’s the only person who matters, but apparently he also thinks he’s ‘nobody’.

  24. 24.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Jesse: It’s not just anti-lockdown and anti-mask protests, a lot of people protesting in both Germany and the UK are parroting Q-Anon conspiracies. I had thought, given the nature of these, they would have been limited to the States. It seems not, Facebook and Twitter have a lot to answer for!

    While I’m here, yesterday’s figures from the UK.

    There were 6042 new cases, slightly down from Friday but this could be the weekend factor Robert Sneddon and I have both mentioned previously in play. Broken down by home nation,

    England – 4639

    Northern Ireland – 319

    Scotland – 714

    Wales – 370.

    The Dashboard shows England had about 1000 fewer cases reported, while the other nations all saw increases. We’ll see what happens Tuesday/Wednesday.

    Deaths – 34 in total. 30 in England, 1 in Northern Ireland and 3 in Wales. As I said yesterday, there had been an outage  in the  National Records of Scotland and no death data was available for the 25th. This has now been sorted and Scotland had 1 death that day.

    No UK-wide updates on testing or hospitalisations but England had 288 people admitted to hospital on 24th, Northern Ireland 2 and Wales 94.

    Total people in hospital on the same date – England 1481, Northern Ireland 46, Scotland 85 and Wales 115.

    Ventilators – On 25th September, 227 people in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 11 in Scotland and 19 in Wales.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: How long until some enterprising Republican sociopath (but I repeat myself) starts bottling the infected water and selling it in blue states?

    Perhaps I woke up too cynical this morning?  Or perhaps not.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @Zinsky: It makes no sense to me, either.  The only thing I can come up with is that you can’t prove a negative.

    So if you take action to prevent an out-of-control virus, and you’re successful, you can’t prove that your actions helped, and the idiots will use it against you.  We had all these limitations, and see, it wasn’t even a problem!

    But if you don’t limit, you have cover because the president said it was fine, and then if you lock the barn door (after all the horses are out) they can’t blame you for that, you had no other choice.

    The short answer is they are willing to let people die rather than step up and do anything hard.  The party of responsibility, my ass!

  27. 27.

    Ken

    @Jinchi: “Non-student fans” would largely be alumni, right?  So maybe the school will limit it to alumni who have made a bequest in their wills.

  28. 28.

    TS (the original)

    @Amir Khalid:

    Thank you for the comment. Most Australians believe all their state governments have done well (although the outbreak in Victoria has caused some angst against their Premier). Seeing such a difference between what has happened here & what has happened in US States, I’m beginning to doubt  what should be happening.

    Whatever – the country is heading towards minimal covid. As NZ discovered it is unlikely to be 100% gone.

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