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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Sunday / Monday, Oct. 24-25

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY:

    Monroe County website doesn’t report on weekends anymore.
    NYSDOH says we had 252 new ones yesterday.

    I wear a mask everywhere I have to go, and when I have service people come into my house because anything over about 20 new cases a day is just too high for my liking. So I’ve gone through a lot of masks since July.

  2. 2.

    Ten Bears

    I actually said that, sort of, to some bozo making smart remarks about my mask. Gave him my everyday “I’m ready when you are” glare and said “I don’t know what you’ve been breathing.”

  3. 3.

    Phylllis

    @NeenerNeener:  Yep, wear one out and about here in the midlands of South Carolina. Had to run a couple of errands yesterday & noticed I was the only person in the department store wearing one, except for the employees and only one of a handful of customers in the busy grocery store wearing one.

    I can’t help but feel like I’m wearing mine out of a bit of spite these days, also too.

  4. 4.

    sab

    @Phylllis: Around here it’s about 1/3 maskless and 2/3 masked at the grocery store and pharmacy, and about 1/2 and 1/2 everywhere else. Mostly the unmasked are male white people.

  5. 5.

    lowtechcyclist

    When I’m in Florida (as I was this past weekend), I wear N95 masks to the store.

    I figure cloth masks give some protection, but really are basically part of a social contract: I’ll protect you from my germs if you protect me from yours.  So here in Maryland, I’ll wear my cloth masks in stores, where more people than not are still masking up.

    But in Florida, few people are wearing masks anywhere, so I wear the N95s for the protection they give me from those other assholes (that the greatest risk comes from).  The N95s are definitely less comfortable than cloth masks, but I’d rather not be a breakthrough case.

  6. 6.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Phylllis: ​
     

    Say hi to the midlands for my wife and me! That’s where we met and got married, and we have three degrees between us from USC.

    On account of all that, I’ll always be fond of South Carolina, but I’m very very glad we’re not there now. I hate that places I love have turned themselves into Covid petri dishes.

  7. 7.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 10/24 China reported 35 new domestic confirmed (5 previously asymptomatic) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 19 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 62 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic suspect cases in the region.

    • Ejina Banner in Alxa League reported 18 new domestic confirmed (all residents at Dalaihob Township), all found via mass screening of all residents. There currently are 43 active domestic confirmed cases there. The Dalaihob Township remains at High Risk. All residents & tourists in the banner are now confined to their homes or hotel rooms.
    • Alxa Left Banner in Alxa League did not report any new domestic positive case. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in there, at Bayanhot. 1 sub-district of Bayanhot Township remains at Medium Risk
    • Erenhot in Xilingol League reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, found via mass screening of all residents. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed cases there. 3 communities are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Hohhot did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 1 active suspect cases in the city.

    Xi’an in Shaanxi Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases, both traced close contact already under centralized quarantine. There currently are 14 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.

    Ningxia “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 17 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.

    • Wuzhong did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
    • Yinchuan did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.

    Gansu Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed cases (2 mild & 2 moderate). There currently are 45 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.

    • Lanzhou reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 2 moderate), 1 is a member of the same tour group from Yunnan w/ confirmed cases & 2 are traced close contacts, all have been under centralized quarantine since 10/19 or 10/22. There currently are 33 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 1 residential compound has been elevated to Medium Risk. 3 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Zhangye did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Jiayuguan reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild), a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 10/21. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Longnan did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
    • At Tianshui there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case, who was previously reported as a case in Lanzhou.

    Hebei Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic). There currently are 3 active confirmed & 2 active asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Shijiazhuang did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city, unclear if the case is related to the ongoing outbreak elsewhere.
    • Xingtai reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic). There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Baoding did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.

    Hunan Province report 2 new domestic confirmed (both previously asymptomatic). There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.

    • Changsha reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic). There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
    • Zhuzhou did not report any new domestic positive cases, There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case in the city.

    Zunyi in Guizhou Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), the 3 new positive cases are all traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine since 10/20. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.

    Beijing Municipality reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both moderate) & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts. There currently are 14 active domestic confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases in the city. The Medium Risk community has been elevated to High Risk.

    Haidong in Qinghai Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.

    Tianmen in Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases, both tourists who had visited Gansu & Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia in the 1st half of Oct., & were driving through Hubei on their way home in Guangdong.

    Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case (at Longchuan County, found from screening of persons already under centralized quarantine). 1 asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 20 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture.

    At Fujian Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases remaining in the province, all at Xiamen.

    At Heilongjiang Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case remaining in the province, at Harbin.

    At Henan Province there currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.

    Imported Cases

    On 10/24, China reported 4 new imported confirmed cases, 10 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Serbian national coming from Serbia (via Frankfurt)
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed & 1 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Singapore
    • Qingdao in Shandong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from India (via Frankfurt)
    • Guangxi “Autonomous” Region (location not specified) – 1 confirmed & 3 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Japan & Saudi Arabia
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 each coming from Kazakhstan & the UAE, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Germany
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 1 suspect case, off a flight diverted from Beijing

    Overall in China, 30 confirmed cases recovered (27 imported), 8 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (7 imported) & 5 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all domestic), & 522 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 573 active confirmed cases in the country (383 imported), 20 in serious condition (all domestic), 385 active asymptomatic cases (354 imported), 3 suspect cases (2 imported). 30,747 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 10/24, 2,246.217M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.47M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 10/25 Hong Kong reported 4 new positive cases, all imported.

  8. 8.

    JPL

    @Phylllis:  My travels are limited to grocery stores, and most of the other shoppers have on masks.  GA was hit hard by the delta variant, so that might be the reason.

  9. 9.

    debbie

    @sab:

    Masks are still required here in stores, at least the ones I go to. Some are under the nose, but I avoid them.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s decline in daily new cases continues. The Ministry of Health reports 4,782 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, tfor a cumulative reported total of 2,436,498 cases. It also reports 46 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 28,400 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.20% of resolved cases.

    Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.88.

    514 confirmed cases are in ICU, 217 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 7,414 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,334,783 patients recovered – 95.8% of the cumulative reported total.

    Six new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,728 clusters. 528 clusters are currently active; 5,200 clusters are now inactive.

    4,767 new cases today are local infections. 15 new cases today are imported.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 124,530 doses of vaccine on 24th October: 9,831 first doses, 106,261 second doses, and 8,438 booster doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 49,069,291 doses administered: 25,366,353 first doses, 23,766,414 second doses, and 101,590 booster doses. 77.7% of the population have received their first dose, while 72.8% are now fully vaccinated.

  12. 12.

    Brantl

    That should be a t-shirt: “Don’t be a Covid Petri Dish”, with a picture of a petri dish, with a fan behind it. It will only take a moment for them to realize that the fan is their breath, even as dumb as they are.

  15. 15.

    Taken4Granite

    @JPL: I suspect that depends on the prevailing political winds in your area. I would expect mask wearing to be relatively high in metro Atlanta and Athens. In Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district, not so much.

    I live in a blue town in New Hampshire, and most shoppers around here wear masks. I would not expect this to be true in Coos County, a rather Trumpy region at the northern end of the state which has been hammered by Delta. But I haven’t been up there to find out.

  16. 16.

    Wvng

    Regarding Cheryl’s tweet about long term effects, a doctor friend tells me to expect large numbers of permanently disabled people due to the “brain fog” issue. His fully vaccinated 19 year old daughter had a breakthrough case and is now dealing with serious memory issues. It’s horrifying.

  17. 17.

    zhena gogolia

    I have a bunch of books by that artist, including A Child’s Garden of Verses. I wish I could remember her name. I’ll look it up later today. Elinor something, I think. Love her!

  18. 18.

    Sloane Ranger

    Here is Wellingborough in the East Midlands of dear old Blighty, despite Javid  telling everyone that they really, really should wear a mask, only about 5% of people, at best, actually are. Somehow, this trusting people to be responsible isn’t working, even though they’re being asked to be by a senior member of the political party people here overwhelmingly support!

    Anyway, here are Sunday’s figures from the UK where we had 39,962 new cases. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 9.4%, significantly down from previous increases, but these are weekend figures, so certainly an undercount in cases numbers leading to a reduction in the percentage increase. We’ll know more on Wednesday, when all the weekend figures will have been processed.

    New cases by nation,

    England – 33,221 (down 8038)

    Northern Ireland – 1061 (down 262)

    Scotland – 2528 (up 125)

    Wales – 3152 (Includes cases from Saturday).

    Deaths – There were 72 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday, but, usual weekend warning applies. The rolling 7-day average is up by 11.4%. 34 deaths were in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 21 in Scotland and 12 in Wales (may include some deaths that occurred on Saturday).

    Testing – Not updated at weekends.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.

    Vaccinations – As of Saturday, 23 October, 49,684,322 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 45,542,207 had had 2. In percentage terms, this means that 86.4% of all UK residents aged 12+ have had 1 shot and 79.2% have had 2.

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    Just booked my booster for Friday.  Now I have to get my middle kid (J&J) to book his Moderna booster.

  20. 20.

    Kalakal

    @lowtechcyclist: I’m in Florida, I’ve been wearing N95s for about 15 months now , all day at work and whenever I’m inside outside.

    I’ve gotten used to them, doesn’t particularly bother me

  21. 21.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    Going to try to start the process of getting my booster on Friday: appointment booked with a Greek Citizen Services Center that afternoon, at which I’m going to present my CDC card and the printout of my New York City vaccination records.

    Incidentally, I chose Friday because my office is closed to give people a long weekend, because Thursday in Greece is “Okhi”, aka “No Day”, aka the anniversary of the date in 1940 when the Greek government responded to an Italian ultimatum by telling Benito and his Fascists to go fuck themselves, and backing it up with a military counter-offensive that damned near threw the Fascist army into the Adriatic before the Nazis rolled in.

  24. 24.

    Kent

    @sab: We are basically at 100% mask use in stores around here (Vancouver WA and Portland area).  Unmasked Covidians are basically so rare as to draw your notice and I see few of them.  Of course they are always white males.

  25. 25.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 2,240 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 10.3%. There were no new deaths reported but as usual note that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 57, down one from yesterday while hospitalisations are 902, up three.

    There were about 5,800 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Sunday) with about 45% of these being first vaccinations. 91.9% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 85.6% are fully vaccinated. 74.9% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.2% from yesterday. 52.7% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.7% from yesterday.

    There were about 22,500 booster vaccinations carried out yesterday in Scotland with a total of about 511,800 boosters to date (that’s nearing 10% of the Scottish population).

  29. 29.

    Mike in Pasadena

    The real danger is assholes. Whoo boy! Aint that the truth.

    Masks indoors are mandatory here except for white males who wear their masks with the mask below the nose. I guess that’s  to show the rest of us how exceptional they really are.

  30. 30.

    Original Lee

    @lowtechcyclist: I double-mask everywhere (double-layer fabric over KN95). I am pleased to see that mask compliance in Southern Maryland is close to 100% many of the places I go, but there are enough dicknoses to warrant my caution. I ate lunch out twice last week (different restaurants), and both times, the staff were dicknoses, while the customers were totally compliant. Made me want to scream.

  31. 31.

    Ruckus

    @Brantl:

    I believe that you give them too much credit for any ability to think.

    Any actual thinking process would lead to the result that a deadly airborne disease requires a mask to contain.

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