The elite D.C. social scene sees a rash of covid cases, but parties on https://t.co/TDD9Xq297u
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 10, 2022
The #omicron BA.2 subvariant is prompting a small increase in new U.S. coronavirus cases. The daily average ticked up 1% Friday as BA.2 spread rapidly. It's the 1st uptick after weeks during which the U.S. was beginning to recover from the winter surge https://t.co/BMMKJRQiE0 pic.twitter.com/pSm0mbVy2c
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 9, 2022
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End of 2021, I highlighted that the most infectious variant needed a different approach. Zero Covid did worked very well at the beginning (best response in the world) but now was time to boost before Omicron hit. My heart goes to the health care workers and population of China. https://t.co/ksCB9wOCBf
— Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna) April 9, 2022
The worst people in the world have taken note of the ‘Shanghai Crisis’, amid a combined wave of jingoism & schadenfreude. Be prepared for the Doomsters and the American Firsters rollicking, hand-in-glove, in a choral competition where Despair now, we are all gonna die harmonizes with See how Dr. Faucci and Bill Gates would have you submit… but don’t let either group overwhelm you!
BREAKING—China’s grip on BA2. At least 23 cities in China on full or partial lockdown—cities with over 193 million residents. Food shortages throughout even Shanghai. Doctors and nurses also exhausted—this doctor collapsed, and was carried off by patients at an isolation center. pic.twitter.com/raJlRNEezC
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 9, 2022
… The U.S. State Department said on Friday that non-emergency staff at its Shanghai consulate and families of U.S. employees could leave due to a surge in COVID cases and coronavirus restrictions in the city.
“We express strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to the groundless accusations against China’s pandemic prevention policy from the U.S. in its statement, and have lodged solemn representations,” foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in a statement.
Shanghai is fighting China’s worst COVID-19 outbreak since the virus first emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, with almost 25,000 new local cases reported on Sunday for the previous day.
While those case numbers are small by global standards, Shanghai’s curbs to battle the outbreak have squeezed supplies of food and other essential goods for the city of 26 million, with residents also raising concerns about access to medical care.
The most controversial of Shanghai’s practices had been separating COVID-positive children from their parents. Authorities have since made some concessions…
China’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that China’s pandemic prevention and control is “scientific and effective”, adding that the government had assisted foreign diplomatic personnel as much as possible.
Diplomats from more than 30 countries recently wrote to China’s foreign ministry to express concern with the separations.
China’s largest city of Shanghai says it will soon begin lifting lockdown in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of COVID-19 testing. https://t.co/PZ8yOMM5QN
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 9, 2022
Shanghai COVID cases keep rising, food supply problems persist https://t.co/FJPuuLbYZS pic.twitter.com/g1qzkb1Jes
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 10, 2022
The team, tasked with transferring dead bodies to mortuaries, handled 2,200 corpses over the past month. As of Thursday, Hong Kong has recorded 8,557 Covid-19 deaths since the epidemic began. pic.twitter.com/e9af30TC81
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) April 8, 2022
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Your home test is negative, but could you still have Covid? If you have symptoms but get a negative home test result, you may need to keep taking precautions and test again (and again) https://t.co/r9fB9aPdPt
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 10, 2022
How to improve heart health after Covid: Evidence suggests Covid survivors have substantially higher chances of developing cardiovascular disease. But experts say there are effective ways to minimize the risk https://t.co/bLAHp47xSF pic.twitter.com/HlnTp5s8vd
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 10, 2022
New crop of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could be easier to store, cheaper to usehttps://t.co/mKvzjccS7C
— Global Health Observ (@GlobalPHObserv) April 9, 2022
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p.a.
I hope the 50 Dem Senators- and the VP- are exercising lots more caution than official Washington seems to be.
Even the House: not a tremendous amount of wiggle room there.
(& of course every other D pol and Biden admin workers.)
Baud
Covid will be over when Anne Laurie says it’s over.
NotMax
Vietnam becomes the 12th country to report total cumulative cases in eight digits, passing the 10,000,000 mark this past week.
Worldwide total reported cases also recently topped 500,000,000.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
260 new cases yesterday per the NYSDOH.
YY_Sima Qian
On 4/9 Mainland China reported 1,318 new domestic confirmed (306 previously asymptomatic), 25,037 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 domestic suspect cases.
Guangdong Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 13 new domestic asymptomatic cases. As the province does not break down recovered cases between domestic & imported, I cannot keep track of the count of active domestic cases there.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 7 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Fangchenggang) cases. 21 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 14 active domestic confirmed (4 each at Qinzhou, Fangchenggang & Baise, & 1 each at Guilin & Yulin) & 198 active domestic asymptomatic cases (85 at Fangchenggang, 41 at Baise, 17 at Chongzuo, 45 at Qinzhou, 5 at Guilin, 3 at Beihai, & 2 at Nanning) in the province. 3 sites at Qinzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Hunan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was a released from isolation. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed & 10 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks. 3 sites at Changsha & 1 village at Hengyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. 4 dome asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed (1 each at Hinggan League, Hohhot & Chifeng, & 6 at Tongliao) & 12 active domestic asymptomatic (4 at Hohhot, 7 at Tongliao & 1 at Hinggan League) cases in the province. 1 residential compound at Chifeng is currently at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 18 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 18 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 33 active domestic confirmed & 43 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 site is currently at High Risk. 1 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 18 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 21 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 88 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 245 active domestic confirmed cases & 1,189 active asymptomatic cases in the province. As not all of the administrative divisions in the province provide data on recoveries, I cannot track the count of active cases in all of the administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Shanxi Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic, all mild, all at Taiyuan) & 5 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Taiyuan & 1 at Yangquan) cases. 2 of the cases at Taiyuan are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 2 via screening of residents under lock down, & 4 via community screening. The case at Yangquan came from Shanghai on 4/8 & tested positive upon arrival. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 43 active domestic confirmed (31 at Taiyuan, 5 Xinzhou, 4 at Yuncheng, & 1 each at Datong, Jinzhong & Linfen) & 18 active domestic asymptomatic (13 at Taiyuan, 3 at Yuncheng, 1 each at Changzhi & Yangquan) cases remaining.
Hebei Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 84 domestic asymptomatic cases. 17 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 187 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 92 active domestic confirmed & 1,597 active asymptomatic case in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Liaoning Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic) & 12 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 33 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 110 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 99 active domestic confirmed & 756 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Heilongjiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 11 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 155 active domestic confirmed & 161 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jilin Province reported 242 new domestic confirmed (90 previously asymptomatic, 232 mild & 9 moderate & 1 serious) & 755 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1,625 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1,873 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. As the province does not consistently break down recoveries by confirmed & asymptomatic cases or by jurisdictions, I can no longer track the count of active case counts in the different jurisdictions.
Beijing Municipality reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all mild) cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 site is currently at High Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1,006 new domestic confirmed (191 previously asymptomatic) & 23,937 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 23,640 of the new domestic positive cases were already under quarantine, & the rest from screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (which at this point pretty much means the entire city). 217 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 217 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 5,683 active domestic confirmed & 165,337 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 13 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both mild, both at Xi’an) cases, a person arriving from elsewhere on 4/7 & 1 via screening of residents under lock down. 1 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 35 active domestic confirmed & 3 active asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Hubei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Enshi Prefecture) & 16 new domestic asymptomatic (10 at Wuhan, 3 at Suizhou, 2 at Huanggang & 1 at Enshi Prefecture) cases. 8 of the cases at Wuhan are traced close contact under centralized quarantine, a person returning from Shanghai on 4/9 that tested positive upon arrival, & 1 at a fever clinic. The cases at Suizhou & Huanggang are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The cases at Enshi are recent arrivals from elsewhere. There currently are 83 active domestic asymptomatic (41 at Suizhou, 14 at Wuhan, 12 at Huangshi, 5 at & Xiaogan, 4 at Ezhou, 3 at Huanggang, 2 at Jinzhou, & 1 each at Xianning & Xiangyang) cases in the province.
Jiangsu Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed & 65 new domestic asymptomatic cases. The province no longer publishes recoveries, so I cannot keep track of the active case counts.
Anhui Province reported 44 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 65 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 24 active confirmed & 635 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Zhejiang Province reported 16 new domestic confirmed (10 previously asymptomatic) & 32 new domestic asymptomatic case. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported versus domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases in the province.
At Gansu Province 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered 19 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 80 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province no longer breaks down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in the administrative divisions.
At Wuzhong in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region there currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Fujian Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed (5 previously asymptomatic) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 45 domestic confirmed case recovered & 117 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 320 active domestic confirmed & 1,104 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 9 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 38 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hainan Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Sanya, 1 of the new positive cases is a traced close contact under centralized quarantine, & 4 via screening of residents under centralized quarantine. There currently are 50 active domestic confirmed (10 at Haikou, 30 at Sanya, 5 at Qionghai, 2 each at Danzhou & Lingshui County, & 1 at Wanning) & 65 active domestic asymptomatic cases (58 at Sanya, 4 at Haikou, & 1 each at Lingshui County, Qionghai & Wanning).
At Guizhou Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed (1 at Guiyang & 4 at Xingyi in Qianxinan Prefecture) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic (2 at Xingyi in Qianxinan Prefecture, & 1 each at Puding County in Anshun & Liupanshui) cases.
Jiangxi Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all mild) & 26 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered & 28 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 202 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Henan Province reported 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases (2 at Zhoukou, & 1 each at Anyang, Shangqiu & Xuchang), all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 11 domestic confirmed case recovered & 23 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 32 active domestic confirmed & 217 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks. 2 sites at Zhoukou, as well as 1 at Luohe & 2 at Shangqiu, are currently at Medium Risk.
Chongqing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Sichuan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, both at Chengdu) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Chengdu & Suining) cases. Both new positive cases at Chengdu are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The case at Suining is a recent arrival from elsewhere. As the province does not break down recovered cases between domestic & imported, I cannot keep track of the count of active domestic positive cases there. 3 residential compounds at Leshan are currently at Medium Risk.
At Qinghai Province there currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Yunnan Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed case recovered & 15 new domestic asymptomatic were released from isolation. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed & 116 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Imported Cases
On 4/9, Mainland China reported 33 new imported confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic, 1 in Guangdong), 74 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 1,948 confirmed cases recovered (46 imported), 2,871 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (77 imported) & 307 were reclassified as confirmed cases (1 imported), & 27,745 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 22,589 active confirmed cases in the country (429 imported), 80 in serious condition (all domestic), 195,948 active asymptomatic cases (927 imported), 28 suspect cases (all imported). 453,555 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 4/9, 3,29M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 2.525M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 4/10, Hong Kong reported 1,921 new positive cases, 18 imported & 1.903 domestic (870 via RT-PCR & 1,033 from rapid antigen tests), 53 deaths (13 fully vaccinated, including 1 boosted) + 12 backlogged deaths.
On 4/10, Taiwan reported 575 new positive cases, 144 imported & 431 domestic.
Ken
@Baud: But Yascha Mounk — blue-checked Yascha Mounk — is quoted above, saying we’re at the end of the pandemic.
I know Cheryl Rofer is quoted saying otherwise, but — no blue check.
mrmoshpotato
“Slapdicks!” as the Aussies say.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 10,177 new Covid-19 cases yesterday in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 4,317,706 cases. It also reported 21 deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,280 deaths – 0.82% of the cumulative reported total, 0.85% of resolved cases.
Malaysia’s nationwide Rt stands at 0.83.
82 confirmed cases and 113 suspected cases are in ICU; of these patients, 49 confirmed cases and 59 suspected cases are on ventilators. Meanwhile, 15,132 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,128,963 patients recovered – 95.6% of the cumulative reported total.
Two new clusters were reported yesterday, for a cumulative total of 6,949 clusters. 129 clusters are currently active; 6,820 clusters are now inactive.
10,124 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 53 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 40,792 doses of vaccine on 9th April: 6,401 first doses, 27,716 second doses, and 6,675 booster doses. The cumulative total is 69,180,021 doses administered: 27,556,963 first doses, 25,920,040 second doses, and 15,915,493 booster doses. 84.4% of the population have received their first dose, 79.4% their second dose, and 48.7% their booster dose.
Baud
@Ken:
I’m not on Twitter. Does a blue check mean you’re getting paid to bullshit?
Ken
@Baud: I think it means twitter has verified that you’re getting paid to bullshit.
WaterGirl
In honor of Dr. Corbett:
MikefromArlington
Pretty much everyone I know in Ireland seems to be catching it now but symptoms are fairly mild. I finally got my dose of it. Just stuffed up a bit and a few sore muscles fortunately.
WaterGirl
@Ken:
I looked it up. You can now apply to be considered for a blue check. I can’t imagine that Cheryl wouldn’t get one if she applied.
wetzel
Hi Anne. Thank you for the work you have done on this series.
I confess I had started to skip the ‘Show Post On Front Page’ step. I just wanted to believe it’s over.
If it can be proposed in a way that is not to lose face, emphasizing that nobody could have predicted BA2, the United States should send China a HUGE shipment of vaccines, ventilators etc. Help the Chinese government keep their people alive. Look for detente all the time. Focus on the problem.
That’s what I think! Ten cruise ships full of stuff. Let the Chinese people know the American people are with them!
soapdish
Why does every article on China dealing with COVID include some masked and uniformed person randomly spraying… something… into the air from a long wand? What is this actually accomplishing?
YY_Sima Qian
@soapdish: Disinfecting surfaces. Something commonly done in East Asia, in areas w/ outbreaks. Yes, it’s partly COVID response theater to calm the populus, but East Asian countries & regions have always taken fomite transmission more seriously than elsewhere.
Rand Careaga
A week ago the spousette and I dined at home with a friend whom we regard as decently cautious in these matters. On Tuesday he advised us that he might have been exposed a few days earlier; on Wednesday he and his wife tested positive on home kits, and by late in the week both of them (like us, triple-Pfizered) were feeling like several miles of bad road, although at last report they’re on the mend. In the meantime, the frau and I have been deemed negative on both the home tests and a publicly-administered PCI test, so yay us.
It has been a salutary reminder not to let our guard down just yet.
Betsy
How did China not arrange for vaccinations of its population?
Fake Irishman
@Betsy:
They did. But as SimaYY has noted here, the initial approval in the PRC was for 18-64-year olds and the push was to get them vaxxed first. Later the vaccines were approved for older folks, but with case rates remaining low reducing urgency and a bit more resistance among that set of the population, China’s senior citizens have considerably lower uptake. So overall, China’s vaccination rate is pretty good (and it’s homegrown vaccines, while not quite as good as the MRNA ones are still certainly perfectly adequate)
Fake Irishman
@wetzel:
China has all the vaccines they need. They might have some local problems with hospitals getting overwhelmed, but nothing like India last spring (or really, even the US) The question the PRC is wrestling with is the trade offs of a zero COVID strategy. As Sima has pointed out here multiple times, it has mostly worked quite well, but several major local outbreaks especially in Shanghai, are really testing its boundaries.