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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Thursday / Friday, April 22-23

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 4/22 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. There are currently 52 domestic confirmed & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province. 3 communities remain at High Risk. 3 residential compounds, 1 factory & 2 villages remain at Medium Risk.

    Imported Cases

    On 4/22 China reported 19 new imported confirmed cases, 24 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Nigeria (via Germany), Ethiopia (via Germany), Mali (via France), Slovenia (via Germany) & New Zealand
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from the US & 1 each from Kenya & the Philippines; 7 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the DRC (via Nairobi), Malaysia, Cambodia , Iraq, Turkey, Armenia (via Kathmandu) & the US
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Kenya
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria & 1 from the DRC, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 3 confirmed cases, all Chinese national returning from Myanmar; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Laos; all via land border crossings
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 2 confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic); 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Egypt
    • Chongqing Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, both coming from India
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Algeria & Nigeria (via Germany); 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Algeria & Ghana (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province- 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Pakistan, off a flight diverted from Beijing
    • Yingkou Port in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released 
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Sudan (via Germany); the case had contracted COVID-19 in the Sudan in Feb., arrived at Xi’an in Shaanxi Province on 3/21, passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantine and tested negative multiple times, upon release from quarantine on 4/6 the case traveled by train to Tianjin and entered home quarantine, the case tested positive for IgM & IgG antibodies on 4/14 and finally testing positive for RT-PCR on 4/21

     

    Overall in China, 16 confirmed cases recovered, 7 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 619 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 306 active confirmed cases in the country (254 imported), 5 in critical/serious condition (all imported), 324 asymptomatic cases (312 imported), 2 suspect cases (all imported). 10,793 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 4/21, 211.223M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 7.302M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 4/22, Hong Kong reported 8 new case, 7 imported & 1 domestic (source of infection not yet identified).

  2. 2.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    249 new cases, mostly people under 50 years old.
    4036 active cases
    1226 deaths

    3.1% test positivity

    46.8% with at least 1 vaccination

    33.76% totally vaccinated

  3. 3.

    sab

    No stats here, but Ohio cities have high vaccine rates, Ohio rural counties appallingly low, although they do have good access to vaccines. Urban Ohioans going to rural counties to get vaccinated. Ohio doesn’t have residence requirements, so PA, MI, IND, KY and PA, you are eligible in Ohio.

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 2,847 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 387,585 cases. He also reports eight new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,415 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 22,512 active and contagious cases; 260 are in ICU, 125 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,341 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 363,608 patients recovered – 93.83% of the cumulative reported total.

    Eight new clusters were reported today: Jalan Roban Lama and Jalan Selirik in Sarawak; Jalan Sungai Daun in Penang; Persiaran Sri Saujana in Johor; Mempaga Satu and Seri Desa in Pahang; Gong Dermin in Kelantan; and Jalan Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur.

    Jalan Roban Lama, Jalan Selirik, Jalan Sungai Daun, and Persiaran Sri Saujana in Johor are education clusters at Ministry of Education schools; Mempaga Satu is also an education cluster. Gong Dermin and Seri Desa are community clusters. Jalan Bukit Bintang is a workplace cluster.

    2,843 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports a jumbo 747 local cases: 39 in older clusters, one in Mempaga Satu cluster, 562 close-contact screenings, and 145 other screenings. Sarawak reports 717 cases: 138 in older clusters, 41 in Jalan Roban Lama and Jalan Selirik clusters, 444 close-contact screenings, and 94 other screenings. Kelantan reports 476 cases: 167 in older clusters, four in Gong Dermin cluster, 230 close-contact screenings, and 75 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 299 local cases: four in older clusters, six in Jalan Bukit Bintang cluster, 168 close-contact screenings, and 121 other screenings.

    Johor reports 130 cases: 36 in older clusters, three in Persiaran Sri Saujana cluster, 47 close-contact screenings, and 44 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 105 cases: 63 in existing clusters, 30 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings.

    Penang reports 89 cases: two in older clusters, three in Jalan Sungai Daun cluster, 46 close-contact screenings, and 38 other screenings. Sabah reports 82 cases: 11 in existing clusters, 53 close-contact screenings, and 18 other screenings.

    Perak reports 45 cases: 11 in existing clusters, 24 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Kedah reports 44 cases: 16 in existing clusters, 18 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Melaka reports 42 cases: seven in existing clusters, 24 close-contact screenings, and 11 other screenings. Pahang reports 39 cases: one in an older cluster, 25 in Mempaga Satu and Sri Desa clusters, three close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 14 cases: five in existing clusters, seven close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Terengganu reports 11 cases: six in existing clusters, four close-contact screenings, and one other screening. And Labuan reports three cases: one in an existing cluster, and two close-contact screenings.

    Perlis reports no new cases today.

    Four new cases today are imported: three in Kuala Lumpur, and one in Selangor.

    The deaths reported today are a 65-year-old woman in Sarawak with dyslipidaemia; a 32-year-old man in Sarawak with no co-morbidities listed; a 77-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with hypertension, gout, chronic kidney disease, and psoriasis; a 7-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and chronic obstructive lung disease; a 53-year-old woman in Kelantan with diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidaemia; an 85-year-old man in Sabah, DOA with no co-morbidities listed; a 48-year-old woman in Kelantan, DOA with diabetes and hypertension; and a 30-year-old non-Malaysian woman in Sabah, DOA with no co-morbidities listed.

  5. 5.

    Barbara

    @sab: Good to know. All 4 of the eligible adults in my immediate family have now gotten our first shot. No reported side effects so far except a sore arm.

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    I’ve never even heard of that amusement park, but you see in the photos that all the workers and visitors have masks on. It seems to have become a social norm here in the OC.

    Probably partly why we only had a nice low 79 new cases today. Almost 900,000 people fully vaccinated plus several hundred thousand with 1 of 2 shots done. The county is shutting down two of the big vaccine supersites on April 30 in favor of many smaller neighborhood sites.

    I had another section of 70-year cast iron pipe in my main drain crumble. Fortunately the former owner put in a second drain to the sewer so we are able to use my bathroom and have the other redone while they’re tearing up the walls. It’s also 70 years old. We’re taking our first non-essential trip on Saturday to pick out a new vanity and tiles. The cost is horrible but it should all last past my lifetime.

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    Matt McIrvin

    The public vaccination clinics in my city (Haverhill, MA) have been taking walk-ins all week and now they’re just announcing it in advance. They’re still officially limited to people who live or work in the city, though, and I’m wondering if that still makes sense. (I kind of doubt they’re checking very hard.)

  8. 8.

    Matt McIrvin

    Meanwhile, it really feels like the antivaxxers are flooding the zone with shit right now and vigilance on social media, etc. has relaxed.

    I commented that if I were a celebrity, I’d be reluctant to make one of these little social-media PSAs they do where they talk about getting vaccinated, because the comment threads are completely dominated by people going FRAUD PANDEMIC UNTESTED VACCINE MASKS WILL KILL YOU ARGLE BARG ARF ARF. (And a friend immediately pointed out that if you really want to, turning off comments is trivial.)

  9. 9.

    HeartlandLiberal

    From Twitter COVID19 news from Indiana section:
    Indiana Department of Health @StateHealthIN
    Below is the latest #COVID19 case information for #Indiana:
    Total positive cases: 711,787
    Total deaths: 12,844
    Total tests administered: 9,553,973
    Total doses administered: 3,887,012
    Total fully vaccinated: 1,653,798
    Following added by me:
    (Indiana population is 6,732,000. Good progress.)
    Death rate 12,844 / 6,732,000 = .0019
    Death rate national ratio 600,000 / 300,000,000 = .002
    So, death rate close to national average.

    I am a life long Blue Dog Democrat (if a blue dog runs under Democratic banner, I vote for it).
    I recently posted this on Twitter in the COVID19 in Indiana section, in response to someone who posted how hard it was to get vaccine shot in Indiana:

    Absolutely not true. I am a Democrat, but our GOP governor Holcomb has been rational during the pandemic, supported mitigation mandates. The web site for registering for vaccines run by the state is excellent. Both wife and I have both Pfizer shots.

    FWIW, Holcombe relaxed the statewide mandate early April, but continued to allow counties, municipalities, and businesses to leave mask mandates in place. We live in county Monroe, where Indiana University is, and mask wearing is still at 99.5% level here everywhere we go to shop for food and meds. We are still only doing take out, though. Sitting in a restaurant is still very high risk because of aerosol spread.

    I will finish with a local color story. The local hamburger chain Culvers was opened by John Laskowski, a member of Bob Knight’s team in seventies, and played a couple years with the Chicago Bulls. We finally yearned for some Culvers hamburgers last week, so we did the drive thru. As we waited John brought the burgers out to the car in front of us. As he walked by, I pulled my mask down so he would recognize me and said hi. He knew both me and my wife from our time on staff at IU, so stopped to chat. He is an all around great guy, and the Culvers he opened is the ONLY place in town we will buy take out hamburgers. They are absolutely scrumptious.

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    HeartlandLiberal

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Have you seen the story about the mask protestors standing outside elementary school in Beverly Hills, harassing the kids, and telling them they were being brainwashed for wearing masks. I could not believe the school admins did not just call the police and demand they be arrested. The did try to shield the kids from the protestors. My favorite was the kid who stuck his tongue out at the protestors when she tried to convince him wearing a mask was evil.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    @HeartlandLiberal:

    My favorite was the kid who stuck his tongue out at the protestors when she tried to convince him wearing a mask was evil.

    Haha. One does not often get a chance to cheer the children of Beverly Hills.

  12. 12.

    Cermet

    I am afraid India will not just pass the US in total deaths due to covid-19 but will continue increasing  deaths at a high rate well through summer. This is a disaster that I hope the US will, after we start having a large surplus of vaccine, will help to mitigate. We too are at risk if India can’t control the virus so it only makes sense that we should aid them; ditto Brazil. Certainly equipment and secondary supplies to mfg vaccines and supply covid meds would be something we could do sooner.

  13. 13.

    Ken

    Pfizer identifies fake versions of its vaccine in Poland and Mexico

    I’m not in favor of the death penalty, but sometimes you have to make an exception.  And in this case I’m even imagining a public execution.

  14. 14.

    dopey-o

    @HeartlandLiberal:My favorite was the kid who stuck his tongue out at the protestors when she tried to convince him wearing a mask was evil.

    i like to pull my mask down and make spitting noises.

  17. 17.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I got the first shot yesterday, that went smoothly enough. But damn, this is vaccine hits pretty hard.  Still, it beats getting the virus.

  18. 18.

    schrodingers_cat

    Modi and his minions were asleep at the wheel, their actions and policies have made this second outbreak much worse than it had to be.

    They let the super spreader event of the Kumbh Mela go ahead not only that advertised it and milked it for political mileage.

  19. 19.

    Soprano2

    I saw that Sam Adams commercial too, and I thought it was clever. I’d love to see more companies follow their lead, because the audience that really needs to be targeted will be much more likely to see a commercial like that rather than something from the CDC. As to why they’re better at it than the CDC, it’s because the CDC doesn’t want people to go out and have beers with their friends, and doesn’t want to tell people that being vaccinated makes that possible safely. I wish the CDC would lighten up some, and promote the benefits of being vaccinated better. We have a great vaccination program, but it could be even better. Scolding and acting like we’re going to be wearing face masks forever isn’t going to get those who are more reluctant to change their minds. I’ve been telling everyone I know “Don’t like the face masks? Get vaccinated, it’s how we eventually can quit wearing them!”

    I am also tired of hearing about wealthy countries being selfish with the vaccine. Covid was bad in much of the Western world. The United States can absolutely justify vaccinating our population first, because we were so terrible at controlling the spread of Covid! We became some of the worst plague carriers in the world, so we need to control ourselves before we start helping others. I think we should advocate for a temporary lifting of patent protections, and if possible we should give all the Astra Zenica vaccine we have in storage to a country that will use it.

  21. 21.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Soprano2: I’ve noticed even liberals having a hard time grasping the importance of collective action here–saying things like “if being vaccinated doesn’t mean I can go out and party IMMEDIATELY, what’s the point?” As if getting vaccinated has nothing to do with overall infection rates in the society.

  22. 22.

    Sloane Ranger

    Thursday in the UK we had 2729 new cases. This is a decrease of 7.4% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 2315 (up 372)

    Northern Ireland – 120 (up 4)

    Scotland – 231 (down 42)

    Wales – 63 (down 1).

    Deaths – There were 18 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 26.1% in the rolling 7-day average. Deaths by nation, England – 11, Northern Ireland – 3, Scotland – 3 and Wales – 1.

    Testing – A total of 1,371,393 tests were conducted on Wednesday,21 April. This is an increase of 15.9% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity estimated by the labs on this date was 653,295.

    Hospitalisations – There were 1915 people in hospital on Tuesday, 20 April and 276 people on ventilators on Wednesday, 21st. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down 19.7% on 18 April.

    Vaccinations – As of 21 April, a total of 33,257,651 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 11,192,601 had received both. In percentage terms this means that 63.1% of all adults in the UK had received shot 1 and 21.2% had had both.

    General – The news about vaccine take-up is excellent. Even the lower figures for care home workers is still quite high. As Robert Sneddon observed yesterday, it helps that all major political parties and all major religious leaders here are very firmly on the vaccine train so there is no-one high profile arguing against it. In other news, hairdressers in Northern ireland are now open for business!

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    The daily covid thread roller coaster:

    Wow, 95% of people over 50 years old in the UK have been vaccinated!   Followed by the reminder that even those with mild cases of covid increased risk of serious illness and death.

  24. 24.

    smith

    @WaterGirl:  And even young people in peak physical condition can be seriously affected. It’s looking like a number of elite athletes may have their careers cut short by long covid, something I wish would be raised more often in response to younger covid scofflaws.

  25. 25.

    J R in WV

    @sab: 

    Ohio doesn’t have residence requirements, so PA, MI, IND, KY and PA, you are eligible in Ohio.

    What about West Virginia, which owns hundreds of miles of the Ohio River… ??? We don’t count? Or we’ve got as good a vaccination plan as Ohio does~!!~

    There’s a big blinky highways sign on the exit into our county that offers “Covid Vaccine, dial nnn-nnnn County Health Dept” for any takers. Don’t know the percentage of vaccinated people in our rural county, but it has to help. Nearly walk-up status at this point.

  26. 26.

    Bill Arnold

    @smith:

    It’s looking like a number of elite athletes may have their careers cut short by long covid, something I wish would be raised more often in response to younger covid scofflaws.

    Yep, and in all countries, not just the US.
    Elite athletes in vigorous sports are no longer elite if they lose 20 percent of their lung capacity.
    Parents who are grooming their children for sports/sports scholarships/etc and who dismiss COVID-19 are being stupid/gullible/ignorant and threatening their childrens’ future athletic potentials. And increasing the risk for a need for (remaining) lifelong supplemental oxygen, both for themselves and for their children.
    And that’s just lung effects. Other systems are affected, including the central nervous system.

  27. 27.

    VOR

    @Ken:  The character Harry Lime in the movie “The Third Man” was diluting medicine which resulted in the deaths of children. Here is a link to the famous ferris wheel scene where he discusses his view of things. http://youtu.be/21h0G_gU9Tw

    Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?

  28. 28.

    Soprano2

    @Matt McIrvin: I understand that, but I want people to get vaccinated, so whatever does that is ok with me. Many people respond to getting a reward, so we should do that.

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