… FDA scientists at the meeting suggested they preferred vaccines that will target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants that are currently dominant rather than the BA.1 Omicron variant that led to a massive surge in infections last winter.
Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said the regulator would hope to launch a booster campaign with a retooled vaccine by October.
“The better the match of the vaccines to the circulating strain we believe may correspond to improved vaccine effectiveness, and potentially to a better durability of protection,” Marks told the meeting of outside expert advisers to the agency…
Dr. Kanta Subbarao, representing a World Health Organization advisory committee that also considered the issue, said she preferred BA.1-based vaccines, suggesting they could generate a broader immune response because that variant is more distinct from the original virus than its successor subvariants…
Both Moderna and Pfizer have said that their respective BA.1 inclusive vaccines generated a better immune response against Omicron than their current shots that were designed for the original virus that emerged from China.
They have said their new vaccines also appear to work against BA.4 and BA.5, but that protection is not as strong as against BA.1.
The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities, a group of global drug regulators that includes the FDA, will meet to discuss the issue on Thursday.
The fast-spreading BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron are estimated to make up a combined 52% of the coronavirus cases in the United States as of June 25, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday. https://t.co/55FbiLiiyN
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) June 28, 2022
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It started as a pandemic mitigation effort, but turned out to be surprisingly popular…
Former English expat in Beijing:
Huang Yimeng, the billionaire co-founder of one of China’s largest video gaming companies, XD, said he is relocating with his family abroad next year, joining a growing number of rich and educated Chinese people considering emigration amid the country’s rigid Covid-19 measures…
One of China’s youngest nouveau riche with a net worth of US$1.2 billion according to the 2021 Forbes Rich List, Huang currently lives with his school-age children in Shanghai, where XD is headquartered.
His decision to move his family out of China comes after Shanghai recently emerged from a two-month citywide lockdown that began on April 1.
One of the very few Chinese technology executives active on Twitter, Huang had been blogging almost daily about his life since the start of the lockdown, which forced most of Shanghai’s 25 million residents to stay home in a bid to control the city’s worst coronavirus outbreak to date…
Huang’s decision also comes as his company accelerates overseas expansion amid increasing competition and tightened regulations at home. It is becoming harder for game studios like XD to obtain permission from Beijing to launch new titles…
Hong Kong registered 2,004 new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, of which 155 were imported. No new deaths were reported.
Full, trusted coverage on HKFP: https://t.co/w8LTgNgHXy pic.twitter.com/YVtmE5E8WD
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) June 29, 2022
Health experts have urged Indonesia to reimplement stricter coronavirus curbs as a top official warns the country could see the latest wave, driven by Omicron subvariants, peak in the second or third week of July.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin made the prediction on Sunday, based on the virus’ transmission pattern in South Africa, the first country that reported the emergence of the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. If the same infection rate applies in Indonesia, the country would see around “17,000 or 18,000” daily cases during the peak before the wave flattens, Budi said.
Southeast Asia’s biggest economy has persistently recorded an increase in new Covid-19 infections in the past weeks, recording 2,167 daily cases on Tuesday, the highest since early April. Since Friday, Indonesia has also seen at least 143 cases of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5, though health experts warned that this number was only “the tip of the iceberg” due to lack of testing and tracing, a fundamental problem the country has had since the pandemic was declared more than two years ago.
Some provinces, such as Jakarta and Banten, have recorded a positivity rate beyond the World Health Organization’s standard of 5 per cent, which dictates that any rate below it means that the pandemic is under control. However, minister Budi has claimed that Indonesia’s national Covid-19 positivity rate is currently tracked at 3.61 per cent.
“We do see an increase of daily cases, from 200 to around 2,000 daily cases, at the moment. But during the peak of previous waves, the daily cases in Indonesia reached up to 60,000 cases per day,” Budi said, adding that the public should remain calm and stay alert during the current wave…
Both experts also urged Indonesians to adhere to the Covid-19 health protocols, whose implementation have been laxed in the past months following the Omicron-driven third wave earlier this year.
While a hard lockdown like the one seen in China is unlikely to be imposed in Indonesia, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Pandjaitan – who is tasked by President Joko Widodo to oversee the pandemic responses in Java and Bali – hinted last week at the possibility of requiring booster shots as a travel requirement. It was not immediately clear if the plan would include both domestic and international travel…
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Great BA.5 primer by @EricTopol. Key points:
1) Will be dominant variant soon
2) ⬆infectious & ⬆immune evasive vs prior variants
3) Severity unclear, but some ⬆hospitalizations
4) Adds to case for 2nd boost & masking
5) New bivalent vax may not add much https://t.co/h317ggGutV— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) June 28, 2022
Methotrexate, specifically:
… It found stopping the common immune-suppressing drug methotrexate for two weeks doubled spike antibody levels for up to 12 weeks.
Some people experienced disease flare-ups but no impact on quality of life.
Research is needed to find out if a similar approach works for other drugs.
Patients should always consult their doctor or specialist hospital team before pausing their medication, scientists writing in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine said.
Until now, UK guidance has been to continue taking methotrexate after a Covid booster – but in the US, patients have been advised to stop for a week…
In the trial, 254 adults, from 26 NHS hospitals across England and Wales, who had just had a Covid booster jab, were equally divided and asked to either:
– stop taking methotrexate for two weeks
– continue using it as normalFour weeks later, levels of spike antibodies in the blood – which block the virus from infecting cells inside the body – were twice as high in the first group as the second group, and they remained noticeably higher after 12 weeks.
Some disease symptoms temporarily returned after a month but this had no negative impact on their general health…
Dr Benjamin Ellis, consultant rheumatologist and senior clinical advisor at charity Versus Arthritis said hundreds of thousands of people on these medications for arthritis had to shield from Covid at the height of the pandemic.
He said that for most people, pausing methotrexate for a couple of weeks was “probably a good idea” but further research was needed “to really understand if this is necessary”.
“People should never pause their immune system medication without checking first with their health-care team,” Dr Ellis added.
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Some things don’t ever change…
Elmo gets covid vaccine, sparks another muppet feud with Ted Cruz https://t.co/ddhgxzosGz
— Post Health/Science (@PostHealthSci) June 29, 2022
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
NYSDOH says 35 new cases for 6/27/22
43 new cases for 6/28/22
(PCR tests only).
There were only 4 deaths from COVID last week. Total is now at 1905.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/27 Mainland China reported 3 new domestic confirmed (0 previously asymptomatic), 36 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Shenzhen, 2 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (2 at Guangzhou & 8 at Shenzhen) & 25 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Shenzhen) cases in the province.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 36 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region 9 domestic confirmed & 14 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 56 active domestic confirmed & 48 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Hebei Province there currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 5 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 3 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Dandong) cases, 2 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 via screening of residents under lock down. 3 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 50 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.
Jilin Province did not report any new domestic positive cases.
Beijing Municipality reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact under ten naturalized quarantine. 10 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 residential compound is currently at High Risk, & 1 site is currently at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 8 Customs workers & 1 at the airport that interacts w/ overseas arrivals, all found via regular screening & have been living in “closed loop” management. There currently are 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Shanghai Municipality 2 domestic confirmed & 21 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There were 0 new deaths.. There currently are 43 active domestic confirmed (1 serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 8 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Nanjing) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Nanjing & 1 each at Huai’an & Xuzhou) cases, all traced close contacts of domestic positive cases reported by Suzhou in Anhui. 1 residential compound at Nanjing is currently at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 15 new domestic asymptomatic (13 at Suzhou & 2 at Hefei) cases. All of the cases at Suzhou are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, all at Si County. The cases at Hefei recently came elsewhere & tested positive during health monitoring period. There currently are 24 active domestic asymptomatic (19 at Suzhou, 2 at Huaibei, & 3 at Hefei) cases in the province. All of Si County in Suzhou are under lock down.
In Zhejiang Province 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered.
At Fujian Province there currently are 6 active domestic asymptomatic (3 each at Zhangzhou & Fuzhou) cases remaining.
At Shangrao in Jiangxi Province the last domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
Guangyuan in Sichuan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a person coming from out of province & tested positive during at home health monitoring.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, at Menglian County in Pu’er. 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 9 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 6/27, Mainland China reported 21 new imported confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 69 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 47 confirmed cases recovered (20 imported), 109 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (63 imported) & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case (imported), & 9,621 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 464 active confirmed cases in the country (305 imported), 1 in serious/critical condition (domestic), 870 active asymptomatic cases (483 imported), 0 suspect cases. 88,674 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/27, 3,401.112M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 711K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/28 Macau reported 70 positive case, 20 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 50 via community screening. Cumulatively 484 positive cases have been reported from the current outbreak.
On 6/28 Hong Kong reported 2,004 new positive cases, 155 imported & 1,849 domestic (788 via RT-PCR & 1,061 from rapid antigen tests), 0 deaths.
On 6/28, Taiwan reported 42,204 new positive cases, 92 imported & 42,112 domestic (including 147 moderate & 80 serious). There were 85 new deaths (ages ranging from 30+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/27 – 6/26, 81 having a range of underlying conditions, 32 fully vaccinated & boosted).
YY_Sima Qian
I forgot to change the dates for my update. All data for Mainland China & Macau are cases diagnosed on 6/28, reported in the morning of 6/29. All data for Hong Kong & Taiwan are cases recorded one 6/28, reported in the afternoon of 6/29.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 2,025 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,560,583 cases. It also reported four deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,758 deaths – 0.78% of the cumulative reported total, 0.79% of resolved cases.
There were 27,747 active cases yesterday, 346 fewer than the day before. 1,155 were in hospital. 37 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 19 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 2,367 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,497,078 patients recovered – 98.6% of the cumulative reported total.
2,005 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 20 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 2,990 doses of vaccine on 28th June: 244 first doses, 1,612 second doses, and 1,134 booster doses. The cumulative total is 71,233,071 doses administered: 28,037,371 first doses, 27,270,038 second doses, and 16,140,656 booster doses. 85.8% of the population have received their first dose, 83.5% their second dose, and 49.4% their booster dose.
New Deal democrat
Nationwide there were 107,900 new confirmed cases yesterday, a nearly 10,000 increase from one week ago. Deaths increased to 380, an increase of nearly 100 since one week ago, and a clear increase to a level not seen since late April. Hospital admissions have not been updated for several days. Cases appear to be rising in all 4 Census regions. Analysis is severely hampered by so many States now reporting only weekly, or worse. But cases are rising slightly even in the Northeast, where reporting is good. Fortunately, for reasons discussed below, TX is still reporting daily.
Yesterday the CDC updated its variant proportions nowcast, and as expected the BA.4&5 variants increased to roughly 50% of all cases nationwide; specifically, 52.3%. BA.2.12.1 is down to 42%, with less than 6% BA.2. Three weeks ago BA.4&5 were only 15% of cases. At the rate BA.4&5 have been increasing, they will be close to 90% of all cases in about 3 more weeks. Which is significant, because in South Africa that is when the peak of their BA.4&5 wave was reached.
In the Northeast and Midatlantic, where BA.2.12.1 had the most penetration, BA.4&5 only make up about 40% of all cases, whereas they make up over 55% in the Upper Midwest, and almost 60% in central South, most importantly including TX.
TX is probably our template for the BA.4&5 wave. They will probably reach the 90% mark there in about 2 weeks or so. In the meantime, in the past 4 weeks, since BA.4&5 were first a significant number of cases there, cases have a little more than doubled. Deaths have also gone up about 2.5x, with a 2 week delay. In the past 2 weeks, they are up about 50%. If we project that forward another 2 weeks, we get a quadrupling of cases from before when BA.4&5 hit.
Nationwide in the 3 weeks since BA.4&5 were first a significant factor, cases have not increased at all, although they are up about 10% in the last week.
In South Africa, where BA.4&5 were first identified, cases went up 5x in three weeks and then went right down to their previous baseline in the next five. Deaths also quintupled, with about a 2.5 week lag.
Because BA.4&5 are hitting different US regions at slightly different times, I suspect each region will have an experience closer to that of South Africa and TX, while the country as a whole will have a more extended and rounded wave.
The pessimistic scenario is that cases and deaths go up 4x or 5x to peak, or to about 450,000 cases and 1600 deaths.
Or, more optimistically, maybe there will just be a wav-ette. South Africa and the EU did not have any intervening wave after BA.2. In other words, no BA.2.12.1 wave. If we start at our March trough, include both BA.2.12.1 and BA.4&5 as a combined wave, and quintuple from there, we get a peak of about 150,000 cases in about 3 weeks. The low in deaths was about 275, and they have also risen out of their recent range to about every 350 in the past week. If deaths rise 50% from their recent level as cases might, that gives us about 500 deaths per day.
And then the wave slowly rolls out. Pending the arrival of the next, so far unknown, variant.
mrmoshpotato
We should stop calling idiots “muppets” and start calling idiots “Ted Cruzes.”
“Dude, that’s stupid. Stop being such a Ted Cruz.”
Suzanne
Mr. Suzanne tested positive yesterday, eaaaaaaaaarghhhhhh. Cold-like symptoms and tired, but he’ll be fine. Now we wait to see if anyone else catches it. I feel fine…. in fact I kind of killed it on my Peloton yesterday.
Most irritating thing is that we had Youngest’s vaccine scheduled for Friday, and we called her pediatrician, and now they want us to wait for two weeks.
mrmoshpotato
@mrmoshpotato: ETA – “Canada, come get your boy. He’s being such a Ted Cruz. Oh! That actually IS Ted Cruz!”
Matt McIrvin
There’s been a lot of that going around. Things that probably should have been done long ago, but the pandemic overcame the inertia preventing them from happening. (I know there’s a big push to get back to the office, but I think some white-collar industries are realizing that it’s not going to happen to the extent they want.)
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: The decline of the small spring wave in Massachusetts has kind of stalled out, and I suspect that’s largely BA.4 and BA.5 making themselves known. It’s not a huge spike yet. Might not be, we’ll see.
O. Felix Culpa
There are few things more pathetic than Ted Cruz’s struggle for relevance by attacking beloved puppets.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: “Muppet beats the tar out of Floppit.”
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Greece: the government is calling this the sixth wave. Tuesday’s numbers were bad: 20,084 new infections (according to Kathimerini), 16 dead, and 95 intubated ICU cases.
Personal anecdotes: I’ve got a cousin-once-removed doing a medical residency in an Athens hospital, and they’re reporting lots of new cases. And I just learned that I’ve been exposed – someone I had to do business with on Monday came down symptomatic and tested positive Tuesday. I tested negative this morning (Wednesday), but I think I need to isolate myself, and maybe lock myself down, just to be sure. And I’m paranoid about every tickle in my throat.
Thankfully my elderly parents are away on a Greek island now, several hours away by boat, so there’s no risk of my exposing them if the worst happens to me.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@OzarkHillbilly: Just remember the difference: “muppet” with a lower-case “m” is an insult, while “Muppet” with a capital M is awesome.
Steeplejack
Link to Post article cited by Delthia Ricks above: “Long COVID symptoms are often overlooked in seniors.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: The things I learn here. I never watched Sesame Street, tho I remember my little sis watching it..
dmsilev
@O. Felix Culpa: I think “Ted Cruz can’t make it all the way through a Dr. Seuss book” might be more pathetic. Ted Cruz in the Cancun airport is another possibility.
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack:
Thanks. It’s been tedious to go to twitter and retype text in the image of the tweet to get to the tweet.
Annie Laurie – adding a link to the tweet image, e.g. below it, would be nice if not too much work.
I was tinkering with a “www.install.local”(the pre-Russian-attack site) posts+comments archive last night; working locally with very bare-bones html, would need to be linked into the site somehow (new url is install.local with a redirect of some sort from “www.install.local”). The upside would be that all links to old posts would continue to work, and google/search engine indexing would work.
Steeplejack
@Bill Arnold:
I think there are still hopes of getting the “real” database back. Good to know that you (and others) have been doing forensic/archaeological research, but I hope it doesn’t come to that.
The last time that Anne Laurie explained to someone about not putting in the full Twitter links I suggested adding the “short” Twitter link below the image, but I’m not sure that she saw that. But maybe it would be too much trouble.
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack:
Not sure I’m being clear. I have been doing crawls/partial mirrors of the posts and comments for a few years, and have at least 99 percent of all posts+comments, minus embedded images, since the site was created (2003/01/02). E.g. if this tree of html files were just dropped in correct place in the site’s web server, old links to the site would work, maybe (or not) needing the https://www.install.local redirect to be made to work. I just added some bare-bones index.html files at the year/month/day levels so that the tree can be navigated. (Extracting the post title from the htmls was slightly tricky because the format has changed at least once.)
The raw htmls were always at “www.install.local/YYYY/MM/DD/post_name.html”, at least from the perspective of my crawling scripts.
Steeplejack
@Bill Arnold:
It sounds like in this scheme each post and accompanying comments comprise a single HTML page. That might be useful in extremis, but I still maintain hope that we can get the whole database back. Good to know that we might have a safety net!
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/29 Mainland China reported 8 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic), 31 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Shenzhen, 1 of the new positive cases is a traced close contact under centralized quarantine, 1 via screening of residents under movement control, & 1 via regular screening of persons in high risk occupations. There currently are 12 active domestic confirmed (2 at Guangzhou & 10 at Shenzhen) & 26 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Shenzhen) cases in the province.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region there currently are 36 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region 11 domestic confirmed & 14 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 45 active domestic confirmed & 34 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Hebei Province there currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 5 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 7 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Dandong) cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 55 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.
Jilin Province did not report any new domestic positive cases.
Beijing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 10 domestic confirmed & 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 residential compound is currently at High Risk.
Tianjin Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Shanghai Municipality 12 domestic confirmed & 14 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There were 0 new deaths.. There currently are 31 active domestic confirmed (1 serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 8 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed (4 at Nanjing & 1 at Wuxi) & 9 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Wuxi & 1 at Nanjing) cases. All cases at Nanjing are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 4 of the cases at Wuxi are recent arrivals from Suzhou in Anhui, & 5 are their traced close contacts. There currently are 7 active domestic (6 at Nanjing & 1 at Wuxi) & 13 active domestic asymptomatic (8 at Wuxi, 3 at Nanjing & 1 each at Huai’an & Xuzhou) cases in the province. 1 residential compound at Nanjing is currently at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 13 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Si County in Suzhou, 11 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 1 via screening of residents under movement control, & 1 at a fever clinic. There currently are 37 active domestic asymptomatic (32 at Suzhou, 2 at Huaibei, & 3 at Hefei) cases in the province. All of Si County in Suzhou are under lock down.
In Zhejiang Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
At Fujian Province there currently are 6 active domestic asymptomatic (3 each at Zhangzhou & Fuzhou) cases remaining.
Sichuan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 8 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 6/29, Mainland China reported 25 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 46 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 65 confirmed cases recovered (32 imported), 112 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (60 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (2 imported), & 11,594 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 432 active confirmed cases in the country (298 imported), 1 in serious/critical condition (domestic), 832 active asymptomatic cases (467 imported), 0 suspect cases. 80,138 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 6/29, 3,401.857M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 745K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/29 Macau reported 88 positive case, 39 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 49 via community screening. Cumulatively 572 positive cases have been reported from the current outbreak.
On 6/29 Hong Kong added 2,358 new positive cases, 162 imported & 2,196 domestic (823 via RT-PCR & 1,373 from rapid antigen tests), 2 deaths (85 & 98 y.o., 1 fully vaccinated).
On 6/29, Taiwan added 38,942 new positive cases, 96 imported & 38,846 domestic (including 291 moderate or serious). There were 118 new deaths (ages ranging from 20+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/24 – 6/27, 115 having a range of underlying conditions, 43 fully vaccinated & boosted).