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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Thursday / Friday, April 1-2

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    I don’t know that I want to live in a world where Sarah Palin is one of the sensible ones.

  2. 2.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 4/1 China reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all in Yunnan Province.

    • Ruili in Dehong Prefecture reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There are currently 16 domestic confirmed & 29 domestic asymptomatic cases there. Of the 4 new domestic confirmed cases (all moderate), 3 are Chinese nationals and 1 is a Burmese national. All of the new domestic asymptomatic cases are Burmese nationals. 2 residential compounds, 1 community, 1 factory & 1 village have been designated as Medium Risk.
    • Gengma County in Lincang City (also on the border with Myanmar, with land border crossings) reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a Chinese national. Whether the case is related to the outbreak at Ruili is unclear.

    Yunnan provincial government announced that mass vaccination of all residents in 4 cities and counties on the border (including Ruili) started today, to be completed in 5 days.

    Imported Cases

    On 4/1 China reported 5 new imported confirmed cases, 16 imported asymptomatic cases, 2 imported suspect cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, a Chinese national returning from the US & a German national coming from Germany; 2 suspect cases, no information released
    • Changsha in Hunan Province – 1 confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Cambodia
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Pakistan, off a flight diverted from Beijing; 1 asymptomatic case, a foreign national coming from Azerbaijan
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the Iraq & Turkey
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Turkey, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Papua New Guinea
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Guinea
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Indonesia
    • Yiwu in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Turkish national coming from Turkey; the case arrived at Guangzhou in Guangdong Province on 3/10, passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative on RT-PCR multiple times, upon release from quarantine on 3/25 the case flew to Yiwu and re-entered centralized quarantine, testing positive on 4/1
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Czechia (via Warsaw)

    Overall in China, 8 confirmed cases recovered, 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & none were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 72 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 188 active confirmed cases in the country (169 imported), 2 in critical/serious condition (imported), 295 asymptomatic cases (265 imported), 5 suspect cases (all imported). 6,015 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 4/1, 126.616M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 6.755M doses in the past 24 hrs. Vaccination has been opened to the 60+.

    On 4/2, Hong Kong reported 19 new cases, 12 imported & 7 domestic (1 of whom does not have source of infection identified).

  3. 3.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    New cases = 205
    Confirmed active cases = 2434
    2.2% test positivity

    Deaths at 1206 now

    34.7% of Monroe County has had at least 1 vaccine dose

    We’re not improving….

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    While I await the Health Ministry’s daily numbers, some news: The National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency has given the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine conditional approval, allowing its use in the upcoming second phase of vaccination.

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    Orange County had 81 new cases out of 13,159 tests today, so no new surges here. Yet. Only 131 people in the hospital, 22 of them in ICU. The entire So Cal block is doing extremely well, the central valley where they keep reelecting Kevin McQuarty and Devin Nunes not so well, but not terrible either.
    Number of Persons Fully Vaccinated 527,428 as of 3/29.

    (LAT) Amoeba Music reopened today in Hollywood, with strict limits on the number of customers inside, and a line of masked people stretching down the block. I haven’t been in years and will probably never go, but it feels like life is coming back with the possibility. I spent many happy years at various music stores around LA in my yoot.

  6. 6.

    Gvg

    @Baud: it’s better than being dead in a world where Palin is one of the sensible ones.

    More seriously, she hasn’t been getting the media attention in recent years. I suspect that helps improve her judgement. I hope it can indicate some other Republican types wising up. There isn’t enough attention space for an infinite number of outrage shock jock politicians and some of them could realize it and band together to snuff some of the hi jinks form of non government. I can hope anyway.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    Chile becomes the 22nd country to blow past 1,000,000 total reported cases.

    While numbers from the latter have been suspect all along, going by the data released, France has bumped Russia from the 4th highest number of cases reported in total position.

  9. 9.

    Soapdish

    Fuck Palin. She went to that Texas beauty salon last year that refused to follow masking orders and posed for photos maskless. It’s only an issue for her now because she and her family were directly affected.

    Fuck her and the entire fucking Republican Party.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,294 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 347,972 cases. He also reports five new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,283 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.38% of resolved cases.

    The Health Ministry tweeted today that Malaysia’s R0 has been above 0.9 for the past two weeks, higher than it would like.

    There are currently 14,246 active and contagious cases; 168 are in ICU, 78 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 1,442 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 332,443 patients recovered – 95.54% of the cumulative reported total.

    10 new clusters were reported today: Banjaran Gading, Simpang Empat, and Kalindukan in Sabah; Industri Bukit Angkat and Pekan Batu in Selangor; Jalan Taat in Johor; Jalan Bukit Nanas in Kuala Lumpur; Jalan Padang and Permatang Pasir in Negeri Sembilan; and Wakaf Chagak in Terengganu.

    Kalindukan and Permatang Pasir are community clusters. Pekan Batu is a high-risk group cluster. The rest are workplace clusters.

    1,268 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 454 local cases: 141 in older clusters, 44 in Industri Bukit Angkat and Pekan Batu clusters, 190 close-contact screenings, and 79 other screenings. Sarawak reports 214 local cases: 29 in existing clusters, 110 close-contact screenings, and 75 other screenings.

    Penang reports 139 cases: 69 in existing clusters, 33 close-contact screenings, and 37 other screenings. Johor reports 102 local cases: 19 in older clusters, eight in Jalan Taat cluster, 52 close-contact screenings, and 23 other screenings.

    Kuala Lumpur reports 68 local cases: four in older clusters, three in Jalan Bukit Nanas cluster, 30 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings. Kelantan reports 66 cases: 23 in existing clusters, 30 close-contact screenings, and 13 other screenings. Sabah reports 63 cases: 17 in older clusters; 11 in Banjaran Gading, Simpang Empat, and Kalindukan clusters; 18 close-contact screenings; and 17 other screenings. Pahang reports 57 cases: 23 in existing clusters, 30 close-contact screenings, and four other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 31 cases: 11 in older clusters, six in Jalan Padang and Permatang Pasir clusters, six close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings.

    Melaka reports 22 cases: nine in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Kedah reports 21 cases: nine in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and seven other screenings.Perak reports 14 cases: one in an existing cluster, eight close-contact screenings, and five other screenings.

    Terengganu reports eight cases: one in an older cluster, three in Wakaf Chagak cluster, and four close-contact screenings. Putrajaya reports four local cases: three close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Labuan also reports four cases: three in existing clusters, and one other screening. And Perlis reports one case, found in other screening.

    26 new cases today are imported: 20 in Kuala Lumpur, three in Sarawak, one in Selangor, one in Johor, and one in Putrajaya.

    The deaths reported today are an 80-year-old woman in Sarawak with hypertension and dyslipidaemia; a 37-year-old man in Sabah with hypertension and chronic kidney disease; an 84-year-old woman in Johor with chronic kidney disease; a 59-year-old man in Sarawak diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and chronic liver disease; and a 52-year-old man in Penang with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia.

  11. 11.

    Central Planning

    Searching for appointments in locations where TFG won by a landslide is genius.

  12. 12.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Soapdish:

    Fuck Palin. She went to that Texas beauty salon last year that refused to follow masking orders and posed for photos maskless. It’s only an issue for her now because she and her family were directly affected.

    Fuck her and the entire fucking Republican Party.

    The only time other people’s problems are real to them are when they’re directly affected.  Worthless schmucks.

  13. 13.

    Jinchi

    Barely any vaccine appointments in Democratic metro areas but a ton in Republican rural areas.

    My strategy for scheduling appointments was similar: looking at a map of locations and picking a site that was further from the major population centers. I wasn’t thinking so much in terms of Republican vs Democratic as ‘lots of people are looking for appointments where they live, so I’ll look in places where there aren’t as many people.’

  14. 14.

    TomatoQueen

    After a delayed and confusing first, 2nd, and third rollout here in Alexandria, VA, which is its own city & has its own health department except when it’s in Fairfax County, suddenly some gear or other kicked in and suddenly there are little pop-up clinics all over, arranged by whoever wants to, e.g. my landlord’s property management company and the local food & other help charity has a sign-up today/come in tomorrow with the J & J offered. I’m hoping my son’s caregivers can get to that one. My son was vaccinated yesterday at an Alexandria health dept clinic in the old Pier One store, J & J, and has so far no discernible reaction (it’s difficult to tell with him as he’s non-verbal) other than a little bit pale.

    About the J & J debacle, all over the news: the plant in question, in Baltimore, had a “you idiots are idiots” grade on their review just BEFORE they were awarded their Operation Warped Speed contract. We’re also assured that the vaccines out in the field now are good, and that the bad batch was one bad batch at the well-before-filling-the-vials stage, and has been destroyed.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Thursday in the UK we had 4479 new cases. This is an increase of about 420 from Wednesday’s numbers but a decrease of 16.7% in the rolling 7-day average. Cases by nation,

    England – 3784 (up @440)
    Northern Ireland – 107 (down 16)
    Scotland – 400 (down 142)
    Wales – 188 (up 128).

    Deaths – There were 51 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 38.5% in the rolling 7-day average. New deaths by nation, England – 41, Scotland – 8, Wales – 2 and none in Northern Ireland.

    Testing – A total of 1,266,685 tests were conducted on Wednesday, 31 March. This is a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 17.9%. PCR testing capacity estimated by the labs was 782,830 as of Thursday, 25 March. The decrease in take up of testing has been commented upon here in the UK and speculation is that, as more people are getting vaccinated, people are only getting tested if they are symptomatic.

    Hospitalisations – As of Tuesday, 30 March, 3957 people were in hospital. 547 were on ventilators as of Wednesday, 31 March. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions had decreased by 23.5% as of 1 April.

    Vaccinations – As of 31 March, a total of 31,147,444 people had received 1 dose of a vaccine and 4,513,458 had received both. This means that, as of this date, 59.1% of the UK adult population had received 1 shot and 8.6% were fully vaccinated.

    General – A cross party group of 70 MP’s, including former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith and former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn have launched a campaign opposing the introduction of “internal vaccine passports” for access to hospitality venues, theatres, cinemas and sporting events. The government is said to be considering these as a temporary measure to allow venues to open at a higher or full capacity. The group has described such “passports” as “divisive” and “leading to the creation of a group of 2nd class citizens.”

  16. 16.

    J R in WV

    @Sloane Ranger: ​
     

    A cross party group of 70 MP’s, including former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith and former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn have launched a campaign opposing the introduction of “internal vaccine passports” for access to hospitality venues, theatres, cinemas and sporting events…. The group has described such “passports” as “divisive” and “leading to the creation of a group of 2nd class citizens.”

    NO!! So incorrect!

    The refusal to get vaccinated, or alternatively, the Government’s inability to provide vaccinations, is creating a group of 2nd class citizens.

    No one wants to be around plague spreaders!!!

  17. 17.

    Sloane Ranger

    @J R in WV:

     

    NO!! So incorrect!

    The refusal to get vaccinated, or alternatively, the Government’s inability to provide vaccinations, is creating a group of 2nd class citizens.

    No one wants to be around plague spreaders!!!

    True. The polling on this shows there is a lot of support for the idea but the counter argument being made is that it’s not just anti-vaxxers who will be affected. It will also discriminate against people who can’t have the vaccine for medical reasons.

    Plus, the pub/restaurant industry are saying it would be difficult and costly to enforce, as they would need to have someone on the door asking to see peoples papers and this could lead to staff being assaulted.

  18. 18.

    Jay

    @Sloane Ranger:

    Plus, the pub/restaurant industry are saying it would be difficult and costly to enforce, as they would need to have someone on the door asking to see peoples papers and this could lead to staff being assaulted.

    We are already being assaulted over the issue of mask wearing.

    Those who can’t be vaccinated for “actual” medical issues, shouldn’t be going out to pubs, restaurants and theatres, until “herd immunity” is achieved and Covid is in the rear window. For the immunocompromised, exposure to Covid, is a death sentence.

    Being vaccinated doesn’t mean that you can’t get Covid or spread Covid, it just means that your viral loads are probably less, and your chances of being hospitalized with severe Covid, or dying from Covid, drop down to the less than 10% level.

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