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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday/Monday, Nov. 1-2

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic) and 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Shufu County in Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region, and all from people who have already been under quarantine. There are now 57 confirmed cases (including 9 in serious condition) and 223 asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang.

    Yesterday, China reported 21 new imported confirmed cases and 24 imported asymptomatic cases and 1 new imported suspect case:

    * Shanghai Municipality – 6 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the UK, Pakistan and Jamaica (via the US), 2 Yemeni nationals coming from Yemen (via Vienna) and 1 Jamaican national coming from Jamaica (via the US); 1 suspect case, no information released
    * Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 5 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Jordan and the Philippines; 13 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals each returning from Jordan and the Philippines, 2 from Saudi Arabia, 1 each from Peru, Egypt, Bahrain, Bangladesh and Nigeria
    * Foshan in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Oman and Indonesia
    * Taiyuan in Shanxi Province – 3 confirmed cases, no information released
    * Lanzhou in Gansu Province – 3 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Russia
    * Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed case, both Chinese nationals returning from Pakistan; 4 asymptomatic case, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Pakistan and 1 from Egypt
    * Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed case,
    * Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Armenia; 4 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    * Linyi in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the US (the cases arrived at Shanghai in 10/14, passed through 14 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative twice, flew to Linyi in 10/28 and entered centralized quarantine, tested negative twice in 10/29 & 10/30, but tested positive for IgG & IgG antibodies on 10/30, and tested positive on RT-PCR twice on 10/31 & 11/1)

    Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 6 new cases, 3 from local transmission, all from a recently discovered cluster at a resort. The local case reported the day before yesterday is a Mainland Chinese woman working as a prostitute in Hong Kong, taking up long term residence at a hotel. It is not known how many of her clients may have been exposed, 29 police and immigration officers are deemed contacts, 4 are close contacts and are under quarantine.

  6. 6.

    Jack Canuck

    The view from Australia: still going well, fingers crossed please god let this keep working.

    Nationally:

    • 8 new cases in the last 24 hours
    • 158 active cases (estimated)
    • 16 in hospital
    • 27,602 total cases to date
    • 907 deaths to date
    • 17 cases ‘locally acquired’ in the last 7 days
    • 59 cases ‘overseas acquired’ in the last 7 days (the numbers are going up of new cases found in quarantined returning residents/citizens as the numbers get worse overseas).

    In Victoria:

    • 0 new cases and 0 deaths in the last 24 hours (and in fact, in the last 3 days)
    • 20,345 total cases
    • 49 active cases
    • 819 deaths to date

    There were a lot of people out and about in Melbourne today – lovely weather as it moves towards summer down here – and the same yesterday, when my family and I went into the city centre for the first time in months. Mask use is pretty near universal, though you do have some nobs with their noses sticking out or pulling it down to talk with friends. But I didn’t see anyone obviously ‘making a statement’ about not wearing one. Probably helps that it can cost you AUD$1600 if the coppers pull you up on it.

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @rikyrah: It’s still dark. S/he’s gone silent now.

    @Tony Jay: Asking or speculating? I like owls, they are my “spirit animal”, or would be if I believed in such things.

  9. 9.

    low-tech cyclist

    the virus could come from mars or be a crafty plot by lizard people–who cares? 230,000-plus americans are dead because the u.s. blew its virus response

    True, but I think that for the right, pushing the falsehood that Covid-19 is an attack by a hostile nation is an enormous own goal.  It’s one thing to say we didn’t handle a natural disaster very well.  But to say a foreign power attacked us and our government sat on its hands and did nothing about it, well even right wing neanderthals* might be able to grasp that as a betrayal.

    *I really shouldn’t insult Neanderthals like that.

  10. 10.

    Tony Jay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Definitely speculating. Have you checked whether it’s carrying a letter? Could it be that your Hogwarts invitation has finally arrived?

    Can I just say how much I’m looking forward to you guys getting the job done on Tuesday? Things over there are so comprehensively shitty that I’m well up for a little vicarious winning! Granted I’ll be a wrung-out and barely legible mess come Wednesday morning (no change there then) but hopefully it’ll be well worth it.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 834 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 33,339 cases. He reports two deaths, for a total of 251 deaths — 0.8% of the cumulative reported total, 1.07% of resolved cases.

    Meanwhile, 900 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 23,120 patients recovered — 69.3% of the cumulative reported total.

    Five new clusters were identified today: Tawau Temporary Detention Centre in Sabah, Tenaga in Labuan, Gedong in Negeri Sembilan, Wisma Saberkas in Sarawak, and Seridana in Putrajaya.

    831 new cases are from local infection. Sabah has 503 cases: 42 in older clusters, 42 in the new Tawau Temporary Detention Centre cluster, 292 close-contact screenings, and 127 other screenings. Selangor has 129 cases: 49 in exiting clusters, 52 close-contact screenings, and 28 other screenings. Labuan has 105 cases: 34 in older clusters, 57 in the Tenaga cluster, nine close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Penang has 21 cases: 14 in existing clusters, and seven close-contact screenings. KL has 20 cases: seven in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan has 16 cases: five in older clusters, four in the Gedong cluster, five close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Sarawak has 14 cases: five in older clusters, three in the Wisma Saberkas cluster, and six other screenings. Johore has eight cases, all in existing clusters. Kedah has three cases: two in an existing cluster, and one other screening. Putrajaya has six cases: four in the Seridana and Gedong clusters, and two close-contact screenings. Perak has three cases: one in an existing cluster, and two other screenings. Kelantan has two cases, both close-contact screenings. Pahang’s only new case is in an existing cluster.

    Melaka, Perlis, and Terengganu reported no new cases today.

    The three imported cases are one Malaysian and two non-Malaysians, arriving from the US, India, and Indonesia.

    9,968 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 91 are in ICU, of whom 32 are on ventilators.

    The two deaths reported today, both in Sabah, are an 88-year-old man with osteoarthritis, and a 75-year-old woman with diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    In other news, Malaysia’s PM Muhyiddin Yassin is not happy with the spike in infection numbers, so he says on the Book of Faces, and wants a review of the SOPs for sports and social activities. The National Security Council will take up the matter at tomorrow’s meeting.

  14. 14.

    Tony Jay

    @OzarkHillbilly: After going to bed last time calmed by the certainty of the Infotainment talking-heads that Hillary had Florida in the bag, only to wake up five hours later to “Trump closes in on victory” headlines I’m not making any prognostications, but still….. if I were a neo-Nazi Ameriklanist I wouldn’t be investing too much of my meth profits in white, unsalted popcorn futures, if you ķnow what I mean.

  15. 15.

    low-tech cyclist

    @OzarkHillbilly: And all the people who’ve been saying it’s a hoax that will disappear on Wednesday won’t have the least bit of cognitive dissonance when it doesn’t.  They’ll come up with some rationalization if they think about it at all.

  17. 17.

    gkoutnik

    Update from Oneonta, NY.  You will remember that SUNY Oneonta, just up the hill from us, opened for hybrid, all students on campus, in late August without testing or regulating behavior.  Within two weeks, 712 students tested positive, and SUNY-O went virtual, sending on-campus students home, and earning nationwide headlines.  A couple of weeks ago, the SUNY-O President resigned, which seemed inevitable.

    Hartwick College, a smaller private college up the other hill from us (Oneonta calls itself “The City of the Hills”), was, for a time, the New Zealand of upstate colleges.  Everyone tested before arriving, then tested regularly, campus locked down with “sentries” at all the entrances.  Two cases emerged within the first few weeks, and the college immediately went virtual.  Once the SUNY-O students all left, there were no college students in town, which was weird but comforting.

    Within the last few weeks COVID has exploded at Hartwick, for a total of 55 positive tests, out of about 1,200 students.  Not sure what future plans are there.

    Our county also includes Cooperstown, of baseball fame, so tourism rules here.  There was zero tourism this summer, as almost everything was shut down.  Cases (outside the colleges) were few and far between.  But again, in the last few weeks, we’ve had new cases every day, sometimes in double digits.  Like so many places everywhere, we thought we had dodged the bullet.  Not so.

    We just got back from two months living in our rental house in Truro, MA., which is also a massive tourist area.  It was full of renters all summer, as was every other house in the area – people can’t travel so they spend a week on Cape Cod.  With expanded cleaning protocols, and distancing on the beach, you can be pretty safe.  We would still be there, but came home to vote.  The Town of Truro, where the house is, has had 17 cases – total – since March.  

    Go figure.

  18. 18.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Tony Jay: Agreed. I expect a tsunami of legal fuckery beginning today and continuing thru Wednesday, most of which will have been thrown out by Thursday AM. Whether what remains after that will be important enough to matter, I have no idea.

    trump is a litigious fuck and won’t go down without trying to take the whole country with him.

  19. 19.

    Mary G

    OC had 233 new cases, one death, numbers still the same. Along with San Diego, we are in Tier 2, so churches have been able to open indoor services with 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is lower. We’ve been on Tier 2 for weeks now. It’s encouraging that the easing of restrictions hasn’t caused a major spike in cases. LA and San Bernardino County are still in Tier 1 where church services must be outdoor only.

  20. 20.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @low-tech cyclist: They will blame the lieberal media for continuing to smear the anointed one’s reputation. How they will square this with the existence of their omniscient, omnipotent, kind and merciful god, I have no idea, but they have no problem with the coexistence of him and childhood leukemia so I’m sure they will manage it.

  21. 21.

    Matt

    Around the world, the best predictor of controlling Covid is social cohesion. The understanding that we’re all in this together. We’re all safer when we all mask up, support tracing, and, eventually, get vaccinated. No group can get infection without endangering others

    This is also why we aren’t going to get this thing under control with Republicans in office; taking this approach is fundamentally impossible for them.

  22. 22.

    Tony Jay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Aye, the bad guys are prone to doing the same over here, utilising our world-beating libel laws to stifle dissent and financially punish anyone daring to stick their necks out.

    One bright candle of hope; the Democrats have all the best lawyers in their corner. Trump’s all made their bones (badly) defending the Mob or are the type of lawyer who’d hang around at the DoJ because they support or want to slow-walk Bill Barr’s Backroads Circus of Federal Society Freaks.

  23. 23.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland’s new cases report today suggests the lockdown efforts made about three weeks ago are starting to get a handle on the accelerated spread of this disease, with 951 new cases in the past 24 hours (caveat as usual — Monday figures are often depressed due to some reporting offices not being staffed during the weekend). This is down from 1100 or so at the end of last week and an earlier peak of 1450. The lagging effects of the new outbreak have increased both general hospital bed occupancy as well as increased use of intensive-care beds. No new deaths from COVID-19 have been reported but again this is a Monday and reporting is limited. Over half of the new cases are reported from Glasgow and neighbouring Lanarkshire which together are home to about a third of Scotland’s population.

     

    As usual the First Minister is emphasising that the Scottish government will not hesitate to impose tighter restrictions if necessary but those enhanced restrictions would be local, not nationwide unless things go seriously wrong. She has already made it clear no-one should travel to England unless they absolutely must since the North of England is being much harder hit than Scotland at the moment.

  24. 24.

    Sloane Ranger

    Daily report from the UK. Yesterday we had 23,254 new cases (up just over 1000 from the day before). New cases by home nation are,

    England – 20,602 (up @1500)

    Northern Ireland – 685 (up about 40)

    Scotland – 1148 (up @40)

    Wales – 819 (down @500).

    The weekend processing warning applies.

    Deaths – There were 162 new deaths. This is significantly lower than the recent average and is probably an anomaly caused by weekend delays. 132 of the new deaths were in England, 8 in Northern Ireland, 6 in Scotland and 16 in Wales.

    No update on testing. This will be done when today’s figures are published.

    Hospitalisations – There were 10,918 people in hospital nationwide on Thursday, 29th October and 978 on ventilators as of Friday, 30th.

    General – The new lockdown is due to be debated in the House of Commons later today. There is expected to be a Tory backbench rebellion (possibly some junior Ministers as well) with 80 MP’s voting against the proposal. This is equal to the Government’s overall majority, but it is expected to be passed with Labour support. Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed Labour will support the proposal but has blasted Johnson for waiting too long. The Sun (a RW rag) has quoted one Minister (unnamed) as saying “Is this a deliberate destruction of the Tory Party? People only vote for us because they think we don’t care, but are competent.

    “Lose the competence and we’re f****d. We’ve lost the competence. And we are f****d.”

    In the meantime, Mr Farrago (not a typo), is re-branding the Brexit Party as the Reform UK Party with an anti-lockdown platform. Still doing his foreign paymasters’ bidding!

    Oh well.

  25. 25.

    Tony Jay

    @Robert Sneddon:

    Anecdata for you. I have a good friend who lives just outside Aberdeen working as a helicopter engineer. English, very working class, ex-Air Force, voted No in the last Independence Referendum.

    For the last six months or more he’s been telling me that when (not if) the question gets asked again, he’s a firm Yes. Disgusted with England’s Tory-fixation, disgusted with the direction signposted for Labour, happy with the SNP’s policies.

    And this is a guy with a Union Jack tattoo.

  26. 26.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Jack Canuck: Great to see the progress in Victoria! Another data point that shows a hard lock down can stop widespread community spread in its tracks, suppress the outbreak and even achieve eradication. Wuhan, Daegu, Danang, Melbourne, Auckland. Europe managed the first two in Apr. and May, but would not/could not stay the course until substantial eradication was achieved, and mostly did not established the adequate TTI infrastructure to contain new outbreaks.

    I am surprised that it took Victoria nearly 4 months to go from hundreds of cases / day (peaking at > 700) down to zero. Given the pretty tough restriction measures, I would have expected the outbreak to be suppressed in 8 weeks or so. For comparison, it took Wuhan from late Jan. to mid-Mar. to go from runaway outbreak to 0 new cases, peaking at > 2K / day (and real infection count was probably higher due to testing constraints in early Feb.). Authorities in Wuhan were simply being ultraconservative in delaying the lifting of the cordon sanitaire until early Apr., due to the size of the original outbreak and lack of data on whether eradication of COVID-19 is truly possible after such a large outbreak. In fact, travel restrictions within Wuhan was not fully lifted until beginning of May, again out of an abundance of caution.

    Just out of curiosity, would you rather have had a Wuhan style lock down for 4 – 6 weeks (I assume it would taken Victoria less time to drive to 0 compared to Wuhan with the same measures, since it faced a smaller outbreak), or Victoria style lock down for 16 weeks? What about Aussies in Victoria in general?

  27. 27.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @low-tech cyclist:

    True, but I think that for the right, pushing the falsehood that Covid-19 is an attack by a hostile nation is an enormous own goal.  It’s one thing to say we didn’t handle a natural disaster very well.  But to say a foreign power attacked us and our government sat on its hands and did nothing about it, well even right wing neanderthals* might be able to grasp that as a betrayal.

    Never underestimate the winger’s/True Believer’s ability to handle cognitive dissonance. There is no such thing as hitting bottom or peak wing nut. Simultaneously blaming the pandemic as a vile and damaging assault from China, and claiming that it is nothing to affect the economy over, has been the entire GOP campaign strategy this election season. As Adam L. Silverman noted on the post about the Hunter Biden CT, calling COVID-19 a “foreign attack” (and screeching about “Communist China”, “Wuhan Virus” and “China Virus”) are all about signaling, marking and maintaining boundaries, not actually about any policy implications (unless Trump decides further ratcheting up tensions with China serve his selfish interests). Trump and GOP politicians do not even need to come up with the rationalizations to square the circles, their supporter are happy to develop these rationalizations themselves (after all, their brains would probably seize if they could not).

  29. 29.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Tony Jay: I voted No in the independence Referendum — the Yes campaign wasn’t doing a lot of that “joined-up thinking” thing and they were hand-waving about stuff I considered important, like a national currency independent from the Bank of England and Westminster. I did have the comfort that Yes or No that Scotland would still be part of the EU because who’d be stupid enough to vote to leave in any future Brexit referendum?

     

    Thanks to a lot of racist and xenophobic bigots in the Labour Party in England, enough to tip the balance, the United Kingdom  is indeed leaving the EU, embracing decline and poverty to keep immigrants OUT! It’s very probable bordering on certainty that in any future Scottish independence Referendum I’d vote Yes.

  31. 31.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @YY_Sima Qian: Others have pointed out squaring the circle is why Trump latched onto Q Anonymous; if something doesn’t go Trump’s way, well it’s just because of sektet’ world wide cabal of baby eating satanists.

    And I will note that “Sekret Satanist Conspiracy from China” is a common Young Earth Creationist trope, like they claim that all the dinosaurs fossils are manufactured in a factory in China (thus stealing jobs from hard working American Atheists).  That 37% has been conditioned for decades by their religion to view reality as a kind of LARP.

  32. 32.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    And I will note that “Sekret Satanist Conspiracy from China” is a common Young Earth Creationist trope, like they claim that all the dinosaurs fossils are manufactured in a factory in China (thus stealing jobs from hard working American Atheists).  That 37% has been conditioned for decades by their religion to view reality as a kind of LARP.

    I have not heard of that one! I think I lost some brain cells just reading those words.

  33. 33.

    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:

    I am not sure what to make of Muhyiddin’s demand here. The current third wave of infections has been attributed not to sports and social activities, but to infected illegal immigrants coming into Sabah from Indonesia and the southern Philippines, then spreading Covd-19 through contact with the local population and visitors from other states. Tightening up SOPs for sports and social activities would do absolutely nothing to address that.

    This seems as strange as what he did last week: seeking emergency powers to deal with the pandemic, only to be turned down by the Agong. I speculate that Muhyiddin wants to be seen as more proactive in dealing with the pandemic for political reasons. As I mentioned last week, he is in a fight to hold on to the PM’s job in the face of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s claim that he, Anwar, is the one with majority support in Parliament and thus the rightful PM.

  35. 35.

    J R in WV

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I have a great horned owl right outside my window.

    That is so cool~!  We mostly have Barred Owls here, they prefer to hang together compared to Great Horned Owls. We see a GH Owl from time to time, but the Barred Owls are always here, hooting back and forth in the big trees up on the ridge top.

    They will talk with me, I do pretty well in Barred Owl dialect.

    Driving in to the little ranch house in AZ one night, a Great Horned Owl scared the crap out of me as it flew out of a tree right beside the ranch road, like 6 feet from my face when it exploded.

    Amazing huge birds!

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