Now that vaccines have been approved for the youngest, and since there isn’t a lot of coronavirus news for me to aggregate right now, this week I’m going to switch to just publishing these updates three times a week.
So my next update here will be on Wednesday morning, and the one after that on Friday… assuming (please Murphy!) there are no sudden upheavals that require more frequent publication.
Here are a few takeaways from the approval of Covid shots for kids <5:
-Benefits outweigh risks
-Labels on Pfizer doses need changing to say can be given to children <5
-Still unclear if immunocompromised kids <5 should get 4 doses of Pfizer & 3 of Modernahttps://t.co/1ubq4EHdG3 pic.twitter.com/KEfpnAQqoZ— delthia ricks (@DelthiaRicks) June 19, 2022
Take Dr. Gawande’s word: This is worth reading in full —
“So far, Congress has not been interested in supporting global vaccinations. That is a huge mistake.”
Great @newyorker interview with @AshishKJha46 on where we are now with COVID. https://t.co/nD4PcJ9HB8
— Atul Gawande (@GawandeUSAID) June 18, 2022
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… The testing of Macau’s roughly 600,000 residents is expected to end on Tuesday as the Chinese-ruled former Portuguese colony adheres to China’s “zero COVID” policy aiming to eradicate all outbreaks at just about any cost.
Most residents are asked to stay home, restaurants will be shut for dine-in and border restrictions have been tightened, meaning casino revenue is likely to be close to zero for at least a week and likely the coming weeks, analysts said…
Macau’s government relies on casinos for over 80% of its income, with most of the population employed directly or indirectly by the casino industry.
The latest outbreak came suddenly and has been spreading rapidly with the source still unknown, Macau’s chief executive Ho Iat Seng said in a statement on the government’s website…
Macau only has one public hospital and its services are already stretched on a daily basis. The territory’s swift plan to test its entire population comes as it keeps open the border with mainland China, with many residents living and working in the neighbouring Chinese city Zhuhai.
China in contrast has not opened its borders to Hong Kong, with the financial hub largely isolated from the mainland and the international world…
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Another meaty article, worth reading & digesting in full:
“The vaccines we have are superb against death and severe disease, and only 45% percent of Americans that are eligible have gotten that booster,” said Dr. Poland. “A newer vaccine is highly unlikely to change that.” https://t.co/rEpg66wBal via @WSJ
— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) June 18, 2022
Sharing is caring!
Excited to hear that the CDC authorized COVID19 vaccines for our littlest group. My girls had COVID19 this past winter. But I’m still going to get them vaccinated. Here’s why… https://t.co/r1ZBQJs3ac
— Katelyn Jetelina (@dr_kkjetelina) June 18, 2022
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On The Road – PaulB – A visit to the Olympic Peninsula, 1 of 10
CCL
AL, I am so grateful to you for these posts over the past 2+ years. You probably have no idea of how many lives you have saved by getting credible information to us all in one place. Just wanted to say thank you.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
NYSDOH says 56 new cases yesterday (PCR tests only).
Baud
Kids today don’t want to work anymore.
Nelle
@CCL: Seconded. And let me amplify the gratitude for your generosity of time and effort. It has rippled far and wide.
Kofuu
Thank you for compiling these updates. They’ve been my main source over all this time, as a single place to check in regularly to see what’s going on in all these different directions. I especially appreciate the international perspective.
WereBear
Thank you so much, AL!
As a child, I was accused of “thinking too much” but I still think it’s important to stay up to date on the latest threats.
And I can vent a bit about “COVID fatigue” mostly because the media caters to it. If murder hornets hung around my favorite bar/restaurant I would get takeout and sit in the park with my friends, as I’ve done.
It’s like letting your kid wander off because of “caretaker fatigue.” It makes as much sense, doesn’t it?
Don’t know if we’ll ever have a nation of grown-ups…
Betty Cracker
Co-signing the gratitude for these posts. It’s been a real public service, Anne Laurie.
As for Florida, I dislike the expression “a hit dog hollers” because nobody should be hitting dogs. But DeSantis, the crackpot surgeon general and their minions have been hollering nonstop since they reversed their decision on allowing vaccines for children. The damage of their recklessness is done. But they sure must feel the hit.
Rusty
AL, I am very grateful for your pandemic posts. At the worst of this, these posts were a source of calm and rational news. It made a real difference! Thank you, thank you!
JeanneT
I found out on Friday that my grandkid, who had participated in the Moderna trial for under 5’s last year, was in the vaccine arm of the trial. Yay!
He did have one exposure to covid three weeks ago (from visiting his great grandma in a long term care facility; she was diagnosed 3 days later) but did not get sick. Never showed any side effects from the vaccine doses. Word is trial participants will be offered a booster this summer, so he’ll be fully protected when he starts preschool in the fall.
kalakal
AL thank you so much for all these posts. I’ve found them so helpful
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 1,690 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,540,612 cases. It also reported no deaths for an adjusted cumulative total that remains at 35,732 deaths – 0.79% of the cumulative reported total, 0.79% of resolved cases.
There were 25,944 active cases yesterday, 418 fewer than the day before. 1,000 were in hospital. 23 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 15 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 2,108 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,478,936 patients recovered – 98.6% of the cumulative reported total.
1,680 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 10 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 9,393 doses of vaccine on 19th June: 414 first doses, 8,463 second doses, and 516 booster doses. The cumulative total is 71,142,298 doses administered: 28,020,291 first doses, 27,208,771 second doses, and 16,128,017 booster doses. 85.8% of the population have received their first dose, 83.3% their second dose, and 49.4% their booster dose.
sab
We all bitched relentlessly about lack of testing last Fall and Winter, but happily cut the testing companies loose this summer.
American public have less brains than God gave a goose. If your government won’t buy tests or vaccines, then next time you need tests or vaccines they won’t be there. This is kind of course 101 in capitalism v government.
Pure market capitalism the tests and vaccines would never have been developed at all.
germy shoemangler
germy shoemangler
@sab:
Government often has to swoop in and rescue capitalism.
Biden shipping baby formula from overseas, for example, because the U.S. corporation was more interested in its shareholders than the upkeep of its production facilities.
I’ll be eternally grateful to Biden that I was able to walk into a rite aid and obtain handfuls of n95 masks AT NO COST as well as free boxes of covid tests in the mail.
sab
@JeanneT: This father’s day was another test on dealing with Covid. Went to see my dad in his nursing home. Hugged his personal nurse who I love. But she had just been to a family wedding. Went home. Then my step-kids and grand-daughter arrived for father’s day. Lots of us outside talking and laughing. No masks.
It felt so free,but I hope we don’t pay later. Husband due for back surgery next month, and breakthrough Covid diagnosis would put him back at the end of the waitlist for this surgery that he desperately needs.
pajaro
AL, Thank you so much for your posts.
WereBear
It’s this bittersweet connection during times of plague.
Ken
Maybe if we offer a 2% raise, and an option to buy into the dental plan?
Thanks, Anne Laurie, for your long service with these posts.
Baud
@Ken:
Let’s see, 2% of AL’s current salary is … carry the one ….. Oh my.
Dorothy A. Winsor
You’ve done yeoman’s work on these posts, AL.
Ken
@Baud: We’ll get it all back, and more, if she buys into the dental plan.
sab
@germy shoemangler: Yes. And frantic moms are blaming Biden. Makes no sense, but here we are.
New Deal democrat
First of all, thank you for all of your hard work. With vaccine approval for all age groups, we now have all the tools to protect ourselves – if we want to.
The pandemic itself seems to have settled into something of a steady state, with new, more effective variants every few months, but no huge effect on hospitalizations or deaths – at least compared with 2020 or 2021. Cases have been in the range of 100-110,000 for a month, and deaths in the range of 275-330 for 1.5 months. The only real movement has been in hospitalizations, which have continued to slowly increase, up 6% in the last week to 31,600. No regional breakdowns today, as very few States reported over the weekend.
I haven’t seen any explanation for why hospitalizations have continued to increase. My suspicion is that it is due to seniors still very much at risk for the worst outcomes, and a low uptake rate for booster shots, even among this group.
By Wednesday we should know how quickly BA.4/5 are taking over from BA.2.12.1.
O. Felix Culpa
Thank you for these daily reports, AL! They’ve been my first thing in the morning reading since you started them. Ms. O and I have found the scientific info incredibly useful and, like others, appreciate the international perspective as well.
Elizabelle
‘@ Anne: thank you for all the aggregating and curating of the Covid updates. Has been extremely helpful. Three times a week sounds good.
A pleasure to read through, an antidote to the sea of fake news and equivocation out there.
Another Scott
Thank you AL, YY, Amir, and everyone for the daily updates for so long. 3x a week going forward is a good idea. It’s not over, but the medical systems seem to be coping and the rate of change has seemed to decrease some. The vaccine approval for youngsters should help too.
Yes, waves are going to continue until we have a new vaccine technology and/or until we crush community spread. It’s the nature of the waning immunity from human coronaviruses (and something that I wish reporters would constantly remind readers of)…
Thanks again.
Stay safe.
Cheers,
Scott.
Starfish
Thank you, Anne Laurie.
The Florida health department banning pediatricians from ordering vaccines for kids was bananas. Their health department stance is an antivax one. It does not recommend the vaccine for the littles and promotes treatments for COVID like Paxlovid which has not been approved for this age group.
debbie
Anne Laurie, I join the chorus in thanking you for this very invaluable source of information. I can’t imagine the nonsense that would be filling my head otherwise.
satby
Adding my thanks to AL for what most of us never expected to be more than two years of dedicated work on this subject. It was invaluable.
There were two incidents at the market in the red hell state on Saturday that I’ll mention, because lies never stop.
The first was an older (than me, so 70-ish) lady, looking at baby hats in the booth next to mine. Then she announced that she wasn’t allowed to visit with the new baby because she refused to get vaccinated, though everyone else in the family did. So she doesn’t even want to see pictures of the kid.
The second was some white guy practically gloating about Sean Casten’s daughter’s sudden death due to unknown causes: “they won’t admit it, but it’s because she got the jab”.
That guy set me off, and I told him he was wrong, an idiot, and to get lost. More words also exchanged. Also at the booth next to mine. Hats must restrict blood flow to the brain.
Quantumman
Thank you so much for these posts. I have shared them with many of my colleagues. First thing I read every morning.
EarthWindFire
@JeanneT: Thank you to your grandson and his parents. With all the misinformation around, I hope it wasn’t difficult to find families that would participate in the trials but I bet it was.
xjmuellerlurks
Thanks for putting these together for the past two years. I know you put a lot of time and effort into these.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/19 Mainland China reported 14 new domestic confirmed (0 previously asymptomatic), 10 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Shenzhen at Guangdong Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Dongxing. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 33 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Weihai in Shandong Province there currently are 3 active asymptomatic cases remaining.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. 28 domestic confirmed & 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 252 active domestic confirmed & 252 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Jiuquan in Gansu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous”Region reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at 11th Div. of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps (XPCC), both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Hebei Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 7 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.
Liaoning Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Dandong) cases. 3 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed & 45 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 residential compounds at Dandong are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case. 1 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. 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 4 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic new domestic asymptomatic cases, 1 traced close contact connected to the night club outbreak & under centralized quarantine, & a new cluster of 4 at Changping District found via community screening. 9 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 3 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 10 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 12 persons under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening (at Baoshan District). There were 0 new deaths. 10 domestic confirmed & 43 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 95 active domestic confirmed (3 serious & 4 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 35 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province there currently are 2 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 each administrative division, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Zhejiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Fujian Province there currently are 8 active domestic asymptomatic (5 at Zhangzhou & 3 at Fuzhou) cases remaining.
At Jiangxi Province there currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases (3 at Yichun & 1 at Shangrao) remaining.
At Henan Province the last domestic positive cases recovered.
At Sichuan Province 3 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Chongqing Municipality there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 17 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 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 6/19, Mainland China reported 24 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 61 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 95 confirmed cases recovered (27 imported), 145 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (73 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 5,543 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 840 active confirmed cases in the country (243 imported), 8 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 1,483 active asymptomatic cases (531 imported), 0 suspect cases. 105,772 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/19, 3,395.026M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 522K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 10 PM on 6/19 Macau reported 31 positive cases from the current outbreak (23 asymptomatic).
On 6/20 Hong Kong reported 1,327 new positive cases, 141 imported & 1,286 domestic (435 via RT-PCR & 751 from rapid antigen tests), 1 death (53 y.o., both fully vaccinated).
On 6/20, Taiwan reported 35,632 new positive cases, 36 imported & 35,596 domestic (including 184 moderate & 111 serious). There were 144 new deaths (ages ranging from 20+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 6/4 – 6/19, 139 having a range of underlying conditions, 53 fully vaccinated & boosted).
YY_Sima Qian
Thanks A.L. for the long running series. I can’t believe it has been 2+ years!
& thank you & the community here for making me feel comfortable delurking back at the very beginning of the pandemic in Wuhan, & feel welcome in participating/contributing!
Percysowner
Thanks for the COVID coverage AL. I’m glad you are able to scale back to 3 times a week and hope that the cases and news about COVID stay low enough that you can continue at that rate, or even better, some day stop completely.
I’m waiting on a negative COVID test from my son-in-law. Here in Columbus we had a huge power outage and his parents, who were out of town at a wedding, let all of us stay in their house until power came back. When they came home my SIL picked them up from the airport. On the drive to their house, they got a text saying that the bride, groom and bridesmaids all tested positive for COVID. My SIL’s mother tested immediately and was positive. His father was negative at first, then tested positive 24 hours later. We are all hoping that my SIL wasn’t in contact long enough with them to get it. Fortunately, they are both fully vaccinated and boosted, so symptoms have been mild. This just falls into the “you never know” and “wear your mask at all times” category.
Starfish
This thread is much like Dr. Jetelina’s. We have a lot of “I am not anti-vax, but I am not giving this new vaccine to my child” people who are not thinking that COVID itself is a new disease, and we don’t know the long term consequences of it on the health of children.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby:
I hadn’t heard about Casten’s daughter’s death. Only 17. How wrenching that must be for the family. One wishes to kick morons like your guy at the market in tender places for being so vile.
Ohio Mom
I vaguely remember that at the beginning of Covid, we were all going to hunker down for six weeks and “flatten the curve” for the sake of the health care system. We weren’t going to overwhelm hospitals and their doctors, nurses and other health care professionals.
Six weeks came and went, and we went on to overwhelm the health care system over and over again.
Then medical science advanced and treatment protocols, as well as vaccines and easily distributable tests were developed. These things have eased the pressure and stress on the health care system. Goal achieved, I guess.
At the same time, Covid is not over, may never be over. There will be no herd immunity or even personal immunity. Vacvinated people can get Covid repeatedly, even if within a few weeks of recovering from a case. And there is no coordinated global effort that might slow Covid down.
This is it.
On another note. I want to repeat what I said the other day and add my thanks for the daily updates. I am not ready to give them up entirely and three times a week seems right to me. Crossing my fingers there is never a reason to go back to daily updates.
KSinMA
Thank you, Anne Laurie. I hope you’ll enjoy having a less crowded schedule!
AliceBlue
Joining in with my thanks to AL, YY, Amir and New Deal Democrat for all their hard work.
lowtechcyclist
Thanks, Anne, for the past two and a half years of Covid updates! I can’t believe you started doing this in January 2020, when most of America, with more than a little help from TFG, was still oblivious to the threat that Covid-19 constituted.
I’m glad you’re easing off to three times a week. You do a lot to keep this place going, and these days there’s less need for daily updates on the Covid front, so I’m glad you’re availing yourself of the opportunity to ease the burden on yourself.
Personal news: I finally got around to scheduling my second booster for today at 1pm. Up until now, all my Covid shots have been Moderna; this time, I’m switching to Pfizer.
DB11
Just want to add my thanks to the chorus for your sustained commitment and irreplaceable contribution over the past 2+ years.
Merci encore.
Soprano2
I want to add my thanks to you for these daily threads, AL. I can’t imagine the psychic toll of spending so much time reading about Covid every day for over two years. I learned a lot of stuff I wouldn’t have known otherwise from these threads. It’s time to dial back some.
Betty
Thanks, Annie Laurie. These posts have been invaluable, such a rich source of very important information.
la caterina
Many thanks, AnneLaurie for these posts! They’ve been my go-to every morning and I don’t think I’ve ever even posted one comment. That said, I’m very glad you are lightening up on the schedule. It’s time.
J R in WV
I just want to thank Anne Laurie, YY, and all the Jackals all over the world who reported using these posts on the plague situation in their areas. This was (and will continue to be) a wonderful place to get the latest facts about the Trumpian Plague.
Here’s hoping we don’t have a brand new Plague bunny pop up soonest!!
Fair Economist
Thanks for keeping up this great resource, AL, and I think 3 times a week is a good decision at this point. COVID and Long COVID are continuing crises, but there’s a lot less *news* at this point.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
Thank you, Anne, for your hard work keeping these updates going for the past 2+ years!
I remember back in January 2020 when things started getting serious here in the States, and you started this series of posts. Crazy…
Liminal Owl
Thank you, Anne Laurie. I read these posts every week, with awareness of how much work they must involve, and marvel at the ongoing effort. Glad you’re finally able to decrease the work and maybe rest a little.
frosty
My thanks as well, AL. 2 1/2 years of daily updates!! Who would have predicted that?
I think 3x per week is about right given the state of COVID around the world. It will give you time to find more things to post on. Or to take a break and work on the garden even!
Splitting Image
I just want to add my thanks to everyone else’s. This has been my go-to place to learn what is going on in the world with COVID since the pandemic started. It’s long past time you took a little breather.
StringOnAStick
@YY_Sima Qian: I’d like to thank you for your early comments that something strange was happening in Wuhan; that made me put my antennae up. It made me start asking questions at our dental office meetings, like has anyone heard about this disease outbreak in China and when were we going to start asking patients about recent travel history. I was told several times I was overreacting.
Then Anne Laurie started posting these threads, and the news hit theMSM. One weekend my fellow RDH and I were texting that the office shouldn’t open tomorrow, but it did and most patients were calling and cancelling because of the news. My boss and I got into a yelling match over being open, we eventually all went home and that night the state dental board recommended all offices close for the next 6 weeks. I decided to retire early and never went back.
Since then my boss and I have repaired our relationship and text about skiing and such, and that began when one day he texted out of the blue with “you were completely 100% right about Covid and I apologise” . The only reason I knew what was going on was thanks to reading here, so thanks again Anne Laurie.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/20 Mainland China reported 9 new domestic confirmed (0 previously asymptomatic), 25 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Shenzhen at Guangdong Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at Dongxing. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 34 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Weihai in Shandong Province there currently are 3 active asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region 28 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 224 active domestic confirmed & 244 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Jiuquan in Gansu Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous”Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Hebei Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 7 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.
Liaoning Province reported 6 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Dandong) cases. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 51 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 residential compounds at Dandong are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 10 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. 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 (2 mild & 1 moderate) & 2 new domestic new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 9 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 3 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 6 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 7 persons under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening (at Jing’an & Minhang Districts). There were 0 new deaths. 10 domestic confirmed & 31 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 91 active domestic confirmed (2 serious & 4 critical) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 35 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Zhejiang Province 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Fujian Province there currently are 8 active domestic asymptomatic (5 at Zhangzhou & 3 at Fuzhou) cases remaining.
At Jiangxi Province there currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases (3 at Yichun & 1 at Shangrao) remaining.
At Sichuan Province 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The province is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there.
At Chongqing Municipality there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Yunnan Province 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 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 6/20, Mainland China reported 28 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 80 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 68 confirmed cases recovered (17 imported), 136 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (76 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 4,373 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 809 active confirmed cases in the country (254 imported), 7 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 1,449 active asymptomatic cases (532 imported), 0 suspect cases. 105,457 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/20, 3,395.704M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 678K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 9 AM on 6/21 Macau has reported 47 positive cases from the current outbreak (34 asymptomatic). The territory just completed the 1st round of mass screening. The cases come from 2 different clusters.
On 6/21 Hong Kong reported 1,198 new positive cases, 122 imported & 1,076 domestic (429 via RT-PCR & 647 from rapid antigen tests), 0 deaths.
On 6/21, Taiwan reported 56,404 new positive cases, 65 imported & 56,339 domestic (including 68 moderate & 141 serious). There were 115 new deaths (ages ranging from 30+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/22 – 6/18, 107 having a range of underlying conditions, 53 fully vaccinated & boosted).