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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday / Monday, May 2-3

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… Before Covid-19, Serum wasn’t a household name even inside the country. Now the unlisted company is India’s best hope to get out of its Covid-19 crisis. New cases tallied 392,488 in the past 24 hours; in Goa state 40% of tests are returning positive. The manufacturer’s monthly production of up to 70 million doses of Covishield, the local name for AstraZeneca’s (AZN.L) vaccine, accounts for 90% of nearly doses administered.

That makes complaints from the 40 year-old Poonawalla, son of the company’s founder, particularly distressing. In an interview with The Times newspaper, he claimed that tycoons and politicians are threatening him in order to secure jabs…

The root of the problem is New Delhi’s vaccine procurement strategy. India decided in April to allow state governments and private hospitals to purchase up to half of the vaccines stocks, although under the new plan they could end up paying double or more what government has paid. That effectively foists the unenviable responsibility of rationing a limited supply of life-saving vaccines onto private companies. It would be better if the government centralised distribution.

Politicians in some rich countries placed early orders for more jabs than they needed, giving manufacturers greater confidence to ramp up production. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration ordered slowly and only after vaccines were approved. Now India’s attempt to accelerate its vaccination drive will come at other’s expense. The COVAX facility, backed by the World Health Organization for example, was counting on Serum to help supply jabs to lower-income countries where case counts are also rising. Those export deals are now on hold…

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    204 new cases – mostly in their 20s with 0-9, teens and 30s age groups not far behind
    4591 active cases
    Still at 1244 deaths
    2.9% test positivity

    50.3% with at least one vaccination – this has slowed to a crawl
    38.8% totally vaccinated

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia has decided to run a separate vaccination registration programme for the AstroZeneca vaccine. A pilot registration scheme in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur saw all 260,000 appointments taken up within three hours, and the AstraZeneca registration programme will go nationwide on Wednesday.

  3. 3.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 5/2 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered, both at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. There are currently 36 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province. 2 communities remain at Medium Risk.

    Imported Cases

    On 5/2 China reported 11 new imported confirmed cases, 12 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Bahrain (via Colombo) & 1 each from the Ukraine (via Germany) & Russia
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national returning from Cambodia, Bangladesh & Cameroon (via Cairo), & a foreign national coming from Nepal; 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Yemen (via Cairo), Congo (Brazzaville) (via Paris CdG) & Cambodia
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic case, 1 Chinese national each returning from Kenya & South Africa
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Iraq, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 1 confirmed case, off a flight diverted from Beijing, no information released
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Egypt; 6 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Egypt & 1 each from Nigeria (via Cairo), Algeria & India (via Kathmandu)

     

    Overall in China, 13 confirmed cases recovered, 5 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & none were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 275 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 323 active confirmed cases in the country (287 imported), 5 in critical/serious condition (all imported), 326 asymptomatic cases (317 imported), 11 suspect cases (all imported). 6,684 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 5/2, 275.338M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.932M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 5/3, Hong Kong reported 2 new cases, both imported (from Indonesia).

  4. 4.

    Mary G

    OC still doing well with 69 new cases today and more than a million people fully vaccinated plus more than half a million have had their first shot of two.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 2,500 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 417,512 cases. He also reports 18 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,551 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.40% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 30,753 active and contagious cases; 352 are in ICU, 186 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,068 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 385,208 patients recovered – 92.26% of the cumulative reported total.

    Nine new clusters were reported today: Lorong Galing and Indera Mahkota Dua in Pahang; Jalan Dahlia Lima in Melaka; Bunga Raya in Kedah; Industri Mahkota 2 in Selangor; Jalan Jati Industri and Jalan Bandar in Johor; Tok Has in Terengganu; and Jalan Meru Utama in Perak.

    Lorong Galing, Jalan Dahlia Lima, and Bunga Raya are community clusters. Industri Mahkota 2, Jalan Jati Industri, and Tok Has are workplace clusters. Indera Mahkota Dua is an education cluster at a Ministry of Education school. Jalan Bandar is an education cluster at a non-Ministry school. Jalan Meru Utama is a prison cluster.

    2,496 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 637 cases: 58 in older clusters, 29 in Industri Mahkota 2 cluster, 454 close-contact screenings, and 96 other screenings. Kelantan reports 401 cases: 140 in existing clusters, 206 close-contact screenings, and 55 other screenings. Sarawak reports 356 cases: 61 in existing clusters, 231 close-contact screenings, and 64 other screenings.

    Johor reports 205 cases: 25 in older clusters, 25 in Jalan Bandar and Jalan Jati Industri clusters, 96 close-contact screenings, and 59 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 197 local cases: 133 close-contact screenings, and 64 other screenings. Penang reports 194 cases: 43 in existing clusters, 71 close-contact screenings, and 80 other screenings. Kedah reports 103 cases: 72 in older clusters, one in Bunga Raya cluster, 16 close-contact screenings, and 14 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 97 cases: 16 in existing clusters, 56 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. Melaka reports 94 local cases: 59 in older clusters, one in Jalan Dahlia Lima cluster, 23 close-contact screenings, and 11 other screenings. Perak reports 59 cases: 11 in older clusters, seven in Jalan Meru Utama cluster, 31 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Sabah reports 57 cases: 17 in existing clusters, 28 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings. Pahang reports 55 cases: four in older clusters, nine in Indera Mahkota Dua and Lorong Galing clusters, 29 close-contact screenings, and 13 other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 38 cases: 11 in older clusters, 15 in Tok Has cluster, eight close-contact screenings, and four other screenings. And Putrajaya reports three cases: two close-contact screenings, and one other screening.

    Perlis and Labuan report no new cases today.

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

    The deaths reported today are a 61-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with hypertension; an 80-year-old man in Selangor with stroke and Addison’s disease; an 87-year-old woman in Sarawak with hypertension, stroke, and heart disease; a 72-year-old man in Selangor with no co-morbidities listed; a 59-year-old woman in Sabah with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and obesity; a 69-year-old man in Kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and chronic kidney disease; a 61-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with hypertension; a 29-year-old man in Kelantan with hypertension, obesity, and cellulitis; a 56-year-old woman in Selangor with no co-morbidities listed; a 68-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur with heart disease, stroke, and chronic kidney disease; a 52-year-old woman in Kedah with diabetes; a 58-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and stroke; a 46-year-old man in Selangor with obesity; a 62-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes; an 86-year-old woman in Selanngor with hypertension and heart disease; a 61-year-old man in Negeri Sembilan with hypertension; a 57-year-old woman in Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and follicular adenoma; and a 49-year-old non-Malaysian wonan in Johor with hypertension.

  8. 8.

    Fair Economist

    The CDC weekly flu report has some bad news. Deaths from pneumonia have turned up the past two weeks, and the death numbers for a given week are typically reported very slowly and increase for two months afterwards. Unless the Biden administration has fixed the lag (very unlikely) we actually *are* in a substantial surge of COVID deaths and the relatively flat numbers are coming from reporting issues, presumably denialism in red areas. Probably similar for COVID cases.

  9. 9.

    Mart

    Friend said no vaccine for him, he is in God’s hands. I said God has shown three hands, one holding J&J, the other Phizer, and the third Moderna. Don’t think it will work, but at least got a perplexed look out of it.

  10. 10.

    Sloane Ranger

    Sunday in the UK we had 1671 reported new cases. This is a decrease of 10.2% in the rolling 7-day average but all figures need to be taken with a pinch of salt due to the usual weekend reporting delays, which is why I specified reported cases in this instance. New reported cases by nation,

    England – 1377 (down 265)

    Northern Irel;and – 69 (down 21)

    Scotland – 146 (down 29)

    Wales – 79 (did not report on Saturday).

    Deaths – There were 14 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a reduction in the rolling 7-day average of 31.2% but weekend warnings apply here also. New deaths by home nation, England – 13, Northern Ireland – 1 and none in either Scotland or Wales.

    Testing – Not updated at weekends.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.

    Vaccinations – As of 1 May, a total of 34,505,380 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 15,329,617 had had both. In percentage terms this means that 65.5% of all adults in the UK have had 1 shot and 29.1% were fully vaccinated.

  11. 11.

    Kelly

    Sad email from our veterinarian this morning. They will be shut down for the foreseeable future as most of the staff has COVID. Stayed open throughout the plague by keeping all humans out in their cars and coming masked to the parking lot to pick up their patients. They treated burned animals for free after the Labor Day 2020 fires. It’s a few weeks after general vaccine availability. Damn, they almost made it. Oregon has been one of the lucky states on COVID but it’s taken off in the last few weeks.

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    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 132 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 1.5% of tests were positive and no deaths reported.

    This is a holiday weekend and some reports may have been delayed. I’ll wait until Wednesday to note any real trends from the announced numbers.

    The vaccination program in Britain did not stop for the holidays. The health services are still concentrating on getting second vaccinations into older people mostly. The pace for these make-up jabs is picking up — my first vaccination was in early February, my second was last week with an interval of 11 weeks between them. A friend who is about 9 years younger than me is getting his second vaccination after only 9 weeks of waiting. Looking at the available data there is only a small fraction (maybe 15% or so) of people over the age of 65 in Scotland who have not had both vaccinations now.

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