We live in hope:
The Biden administration now expects to begin a Covid-19 booster campaign with retooled vaccines in September because Pfizer and Moderna have promised that they can deliver doses by then, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
With updated formulations apparently close at hand, federal officials have decided against expanding eligibility for second boosters of the existing vaccines this summer. The new versions are expected to perform better against the now-dominant Omicron subvariant BA.5, although the data available so far is still preliminary…
In internal deliberations, some senior health officials argued that eligibility for a second booster should be broadened before the reformulated version is ready because coronavirus infections are on the rise again. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, and Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House pandemic response coordinator, both advocated that position.
“I think there should be flexibility and permissiveness in at least allowing” a second booster for younger Americans, Dr. Fauci said in an interview this month. One alternative discussed was offering the shots only to a subset of younger, at-risk individuals, such as pregnant women…
“You can’t get a vaccine shot Aug. 1 and get another vaccine shot Sept. 15 and expect the second shot to do anything,” said Shane Crotty, a virologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. “You’ve got so much antibody around, if you get another dose, it won’t do anything.”
“The antibodies stop that next dose from working” if the next dose is given too early, he added — a pattern that applies to other vaccines, such as tetanus or flu shots, as well…
At a late June meeting of an F.D.A. advisory committee, independent vaccine experts overwhelmingly agreed with the need to update the coronavirus vaccines because the virus is now more deft at dodging their protection. But both Pfizer and Moderna were reluctant to commit to delivering doses with a revised formulation at the start of fall.
Kathrin Jansen, the head of vaccine research for Pfizer, said at the meeting that her company was prepared to deliver doses by early October. Dr. Stephen Hoge, the president of Moderna, said his company would be able to deliver reformulated shots only by late October or early November.
But more recently, both companies assured federal officials that they could speed up their timetables and be ready in early September, according to people familiar with the discussions.
A conversation with @EricTopol about the BA.5 subvariant, why he’s so troubled by it, and America’s maddening capitulation to the virus https://t.co/Wej2oBiPfX pic.twitter.com/10TnpLMOij
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 28, 2022
Keep in mind that Dr. Topol is definitely a glass-half-empty-(and-also-probably-crawling-with-germs) kinda guy — as is the NYMag interviewer. But even he can see some glints amid the clouds:
… By initiative, you mean money.
Money and an Operation Warp Speed 2, with collaborations and private-public industry partnerships. And not necessarily just the U.S., it should be global. But you don’t see that, and it’s so stupid because look how successful we were. Operation Warp Speed showed how good we could be at this. But we haven’t done anything. We keep reacting and chasing instead of doing the things we know would get ahead of it.I look at the data, and it says we can do better than this. I know we can; the science is there. It’s just waiting in the hopper to be activated, but we’re just not taking it seriously enough. And I want to get out of this thing. I thought we were out of it as we came down with Delta in June 2021. Who would’ve thought we would get to now, a year-plus later, and there’s still no light ahead of us? That’s why I want to take the aggressive get-ahead stance…
To be clear, you mean a pharmacological way to contain the virus. Because we’re never going back to nonpharmaceutical interventions like we saw in the first few years of the pandemic, or at least unless there’s an enormous rise in hospitalizations and deaths.
Yeah. In January 2021, my colleague Dennis Burton and I wrote in Nature that we need a variantproof vaccine. This virus is ideally suited, as compared to flu or HIV, for a variantproof vaccine. The initial success of Pfizer’s vaccine was 95 percent against symptomatic COVID. There’s never been a flu vaccine like that. Look at the success of Paxlovid: a 90 percent reduction in hospitalizations and deaths. This virus is vulnerable. We’ve proven that. We’re just not building on our successes. It’s incredible. This is a less challenging, less hypermutating virus than the flu. Our COVID vaccines make flu vaccines look like a joke, or at least they did.So we already have COVID on the ropes and can finish it off — if we try.
That’s why I’m so optimistic. We can do this. But we’re not doing it.
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The test positivity rate has climbed above 5% yet again. The fatality count remains almost unchanged even as cases have risen. The pace of vaccination, however, has picked up in the last few days. #Coronavirus #COVID19 #DIU pic.twitter.com/ktMJWrTERS
— IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) July 29, 2022
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“#Russia reported 11,515 new daily #coronavirus cases on Thursday, authorities said, the #highest such figure since April 13.” https://t.co/E1itZFGo6F
— Ahmed Saffar (@AhmedSaffar2) July 28, 2022
In a Portugal, a country with a highly vaccinated population (>98% of a nationwide study population ≥ 2 shots), prior infection with Omicron BA.1/BA.2 protected well vs BA.5 breakthrough infections https://t.co/tY1IHl3Pt9 pic.twitter.com/pREcZuxx7r
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 28, 2022
Timeline of COVID hospitalizations in Canada v3.0. pic.twitter.com/XEiQzI3K2j
— T. Ryan Gregory (@TRyanGregory) July 27, 2022
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How long is Covid infectious? Here's what scientists know so far: Those with SARSCoV2 are often advised to isolate for only a few days. But evidence is mounting that some people can continue to transmit the virus for much longer https://t.co/aU44MjQulV
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) July 27, 2022
Terrific piece by @sciencecohen about where things stand with the efforts to come up with vaccines that protect more broadly against coronaviruses.
(tl;dr version: don't hold your breath.) https://t.co/qvy6v9PVM3— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) July 27, 2022
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Hope for a pan-coronavirus vaccine has been found in targeting the spike protein's S2 subunit, a highly conserved region not subject to mutational changes. A pan-coronavirus vaccine provides protection against multiple coronaviruses & variants https://t.co/I2FrLpHEbU pic.twitter.com/VeQDo0153V
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) July 28, 2022
How long does loss of smell and taste after Covid last?
A meta-analysis of 18 studies, ~3,700 patients suggests than <5% have persistence after 6 monthshttps://t.co/64gXKAAEcZ @bmj_latest pic.twitter.com/Bm6Qgy2EXS— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 27, 2022
It's not enough to design a better Covid vaccine. A company trying to bring one forward has to be able to test it, & finance development. After yesterday's vaccine summit, @matthewherper has thoughts about the feasibility of better Covid vaccines. 🔒 https://t.co/elJooZLCYy
— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) July 27, 2022
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lowtechcyclist
Good morning, y’all.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 3,926 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,668,139 cases. It also reported four deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,946 deaths – 0.77% of the cumulative reported total, 0.78% of resolved cases.
57,807 Covid-19 tests were conducted on 25th July, with a positivity rate of 9.0%.
There were 47,286 active cases yesterday, 380 more than the day before. 1,539 were in hospital. 60 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 35 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 3,542 more patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,584,907 patients recovered – 98.2% of the cumulative reported total.
3,903 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 23 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 16,650 doses of vaccine on 28th July: 384 first doses, 3,879 second doses, 1,870 first booster doses, and 10,517 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,013,890 doses administered: 28,068,792 first doses, 27,436,896 second doses, 16,182,393 first booster doses and 325,809 second booster doses. 86.0% of the population have received their first dose, 84.0% their second dose, 49.6% their first booster dose, and 1.0% their second booster dose.
Matt McIrvin
I am a little skeptical that the benefit of getting a better version of the vaccine into more people later outweighs the benefit of getting the boosters into people sooner. Especially since there’s obviously no shortage of doses now. But I’m just some guy in the peanut gallery.
NotMax
Locally,
VaoR
I’m getting routine maintenance on my car so sitting in the dealership’s waiting room. Maybe 20 people here and I am the only one wearing a mask. People think this thing is over.
jonas
I know I’ve griped about this here and elsewhere periodically over the past two years, but why so long into this pandemic can we still not break out the numbers of people admitted to the hospital for acute Covid illness vs. people who happen to test positive for Covid while in the hospital for something else? Is it that hospitals don’t track/report it, or that journalists just don’t want to comb through the numbers themselves? One time last year — one time — I noted a local paper around here reported that around half the “Covid patients” in a regional medical center at the time were just people in for other issues who subsequently tested positive during a routine screening. No idea if that reporter just did some extra digging on his/her own or what. But if we’re interested in understanding the efficacy of treatments and the impact Covid is having on the health system, you’d think this would be an important data point to figure out, but apparently not.
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/27 Mainland China reported 60 new domestic confirmed (23 previously asymptomatic), 390 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 12 domestic confirmed cases & 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 111 active domestic confirmed & 122 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple clusters at the same time.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 10 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 121 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 29 domestic confirmed & 41 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 384 active domestic confirmed & 2,185 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Haikou in Hainan Province 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Zhijiang County in Huaihua, Hunan Province, there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
Wuhan at Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
At Bayan Bur in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case remaining.
Gansu Province reported 21 new domestic confirmed (14 previously asymptomatic) & 112 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 47 domestic confirmed & 144 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 394 active domestic confirmed & 3,056 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region there currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed & 93 new domestic asymptomatic, all at Heze, 77 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 21 via screening of residents in High Risk areas. 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed (all at Heze) & 204 (4 at Linyi & 200 at Heze) domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 38 sites at Heze are currently at High Risk, & 27 at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 17 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic confirmed & 39 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 18 active domestic confirmed & 242 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Liaoning Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Yushu in Changchun, Jilin Province there currently are 43 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Beijing Municipality 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 site is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Nankai & Jinnan Districts) cases, both persons under quarantine. 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 28 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 4 sites are currently at High Risk, & 12 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 4 domestic confirmed & 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 31 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 6 sites are currently at High Risk & 56 at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case. 8 domestic confirmed & 51 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 37 active domestic confirmed & 292 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jiangsu Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 domestic confirmed & 16 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic & 28 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Zhejiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 2 sites at Taizhou are currently at High Risk, & 4 at Medium Risk.
Fujian Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Fuzhou) case, a worker at a seafood processing plant found via regular screening. 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 20 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Jiangxi Province reported 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Nanchang, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 9 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed (all at Nanchang) & 39 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Nanchang) cases in the city. 2 sites at Nanchang are currently at High Risk, & 8 at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 16 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic, 15 at Chengdu & 1 at Meishan) & 29 new domestic asymptomatic (27 at Chengdu & 1 each at Deyang & Neijiang) cases. 5 of the cases at Chengdu were previously asymptomatic, 20 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, & 17 via screening of residents in areas at elevated risk. The case at Meishan was previously asymptomatic. The case at Deyang was found via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure. The case at Neijiang is a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed cases recovered. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 73 sites at Chengdu & 1 at Deyang are currently at High Risk. 77 sites at Chengdu, 1 at Deyang, & 1 at Meishan are currently at Medium Risk.
At Chongqing Municipality there currently are 17 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 5 sites are currently at High Risk, & 2 are currently at Medium Risk.
Honghe Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case (at Jinping County). There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 46 active domestic asymptomatic cases there.
Imported Cases
On 7/27, Mainland China reported 49 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 65 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in Mainland China, 151 confirmed cases recovered (41 imported), 390 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (45 imported) & 32 were reclassified as confirmed cases (9 imported), & 12,844 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,754 active confirmed cases in the country (530 imported), 25 in serious/critical condition (domestic), 7,200 active asymptomatic cases (557 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 131,862 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/27, 3,421,121M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 861K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/27 Macau reported 2 new domestic positive cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There were 0 new deaths.
On 7/27 Hong Kong added 4,884 new positive cases, 188 imported & 4,696 domestic (1,751 via RT-PCR & 2,945 from rapid antigen tests), 5 deaths (55 – 88 y.o., only 1 boosted).
On 7/27, Taiwan added 23,289 new positive cases, 306 imported & 22,983 domestic (including 140 moderate or serious). There were 57 new deaths (ages ranging from 30+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/14 – 7/26, 54 w/ underlying conditions, 20 fully vaccinated & boosted).
jonas
@Matt McIrvin: I think it probably depends on if you’ve had Covid recently or not. After some skepticism that having recently recovered from early Omicron Covid conferred any resistance to BA.5, we’re seeing now that there was some benefit and, as the article above notes, could thwart the effectiveness of a booster if taken too soon. I’m about six months out from my bout with Covid, which was almost certainly Omicron 1 or 2. I’m (barely) not eligible for a second booster at the moment, but I’m wondering if the under-50 cohort does become eligible in the fall, whether I should wait a bit or go for it.
Matt McIrvin
@jonas: COVID ICU admissions might be a fair proxy for that–covidactnow tracks those where they can.
Matt McIrvin
@jonas: The course of BA.5 is interesting–it’s created this huge vertical spike of cases in some countries, but here, it’s just this sort of long medium-intensity fire that never burns out. I’d guess that’s the effect of the relatively high level of previous Omicron infection, not preventing BA.5 infection entirely but blunting the spread.
New Deal democrat
Biobot showed a decline of about 6% in wastewater amounts of COVID in the past week, suggesting a “real” caseload of about 465,000. All 4 Census regions are now declining, especially the West, and the Midwest slightly. This trend is apparent in the confirmed cases, at 125,300, with only the Midwest increasing slightly, the Northeast flat, and the South and West declining slightly.
Deaths declined slightly to 413. What has happened with deaths is the most important statistic of the pandemic so far. In 2020 and 2021, deaths were between 1000-3500 for most of the period, and only below 500 for two months in mid year 2021. This year they have been below 500 for the last 4+ months straight.
The one item most of concern now is that hospitalizations continue to increase slowly but relentlessly, now up to 47,200. This seems likely to be due to the more virulent nature of BA.5, and also the fact that the group most at risk, seniors, have failed to keep up with their booster shots.
BA.2.75 continues to spread slowly, but there is no sign that it is replacing BA.4&5. If no new variant takes over shortly, I suspect we will see another substation decline in cases.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin: Agreed.
Now tell Eric Topol.
UncleEbeneezer
So will my 48 year old ass be able to get a second booster in the Fall or not? Cause it will be almost a year since first booster and I’d really like to get one seeing as how there are so many doses just sitting there going unused.
Matt McIrvin
@UncleEbeneezer: I think the answer is yes, going by these stories. It might be a newly reformulated vaccine rather than the doses that are sitting around now.
J R in WV
The number of people hospitalized because of covid and the number of people hospitalized who also have covid are two different things entirely and should not be confused.
Also, we wear a mask a whole lot, 100% at medical offices, which all have signs requiring masks — “Mask or no appointment” they say. And will hand you a mask if you aren’t wearing one.
But people resist masks because they aren’t comfortable. Do they know how uncomfortable a ventilator is? Dumb!!
grandmaBear
I tested positive on Wednesday and called my doctor, but she said Paxlovid is contraindicated for patients on Lipitor, so scheduled me for an infusion. The lab still hasn’t called me back to schedule and I’m worried it won’t happen until Monday, which is 5 days out from the positive test. My symptoms aren’t too bad, mostly cold-like, no fever, but fatigue, sneezing, coughing and achy lungs. Still, I’d like to get the meds while they could possibly do some good.
Johnny C. Lately
I think Eric Topol’s goal is not to be a doomsayer, but to push for things like nasal vaccines and pan-coronavirus vaccines so we can really put covid “behind us” (or at least, “more behind us”) and have better vaccine options in the future for other diseases.
He’s not trying to scare the public so much as light a fire under decision makers and funding agencies. He’s an advocate, not a Cassandra.
DrDaveChemist
@jonas: The Rhode Island DOH web page is posting a weekly summary with three categories:
I have no clue if this is typical or if other states are tabulated differently, but consider this one informative piece of data.
grandmaBear
@Johnny C. Lately: I used to work in seismology where there was a similar dynamic. After a big earthquake, lots of funding for mitigation, preparation, research, etc., then 2 years later – we have other priorities now.
Another Scott
@grandmaBear:
YaleMedicine.org:
IANAMD. Maybe ask your doc if that’s an option.
[eta:] The FDA has more (see page 16 of the 35 page .pdf).
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/29 Mainland China reported 49 new domestic confirmed (21 previously asymptomatic), 271 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 110 active domestic confirmed & 111 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple clusters at the same time.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 15 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic) & 87 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 7 domestic confirmed & 52 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 392 active domestic confirmed & 2,216 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Haikou in Hainan Province there currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Zhijiang County in Huaihua, Hunan Province, there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Wuhan at Hubei Province there currently are 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
At Bayan Bur in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region the last domestic confirmed case recovered.
Gansu Province reported 19 new domestic confirmed (13 previously asymptomatic) & 86 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 36 domestic confirmed & 119 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 377 active domestic confirmed & 3,010 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 56 new domestic asymptomatic, all at Heze, 57 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 via screening of residents in High Risk areas. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed (all at Heze) & 258 (2 at Linyi & 256 at Heze) domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 38 sites at Heze are currently at High Risk, & 27 at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 21 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 24 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 239 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Liaoning Province there currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
At Yushu in Changchun, Jilin Province there currently are 43 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 site is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Nankai District) cases, both persons under quarantine. 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 25 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 8 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 26 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 31 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 5 sites are currently at High Risk & 53 at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 8 domestic confirmed & 82 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 29 active domestic confirmed & 210 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Jiangsu Province 1 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic & 22 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Zhejiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 2 sites at Taizhou are currently at High Risk, & 4 at Medium Risk.
Fujian Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 17 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Nanchang in Jiangxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 5 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 34 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 sites are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 12 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Chengdu, 17 of the new domestic positive cases are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, & 2 via screening of residents in areas at elevated risk. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 62 sites at Chengdu & 1 at Deyang are currently at High Risk. 73 sites at Chengdu, 2 at Deyang, & 1 at Meishan are currently at Medium Risk.
At Chongqing Municipality there currently are 17 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 1 is currently at Medium Risk.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case (at Menglian County in Pu’er). There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 47 active domestic asymptomatic cases there.
Imported Cases
On 7/29, Mainland China reported 51 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 77 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in Mainland China, 99 confirmed cases recovered (40 imported), 389 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (51 imported) & 23 were reclassified as confirmed cases (2 imported), & 12,613 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,755 active confirmed cases in the country (541 imported), 11 in serious/critical condition (domestic), 7,136 active asymptomatic cases (581 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 131,465 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/29, 3,422.06M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 939K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/29 Macau did not report any new domestic positive cases. There were 0 new deaths.
On 7/29 Hong Kong added 4,683 new positive cases, 193 imported & 4,490 domestic (1,557 via RT-PCR & 2,933 from rapid antigen tests), 4 new deaths (65 – 94 y.o.).
On 7/29, Taiwan added 21,501 new positive cases, 228 imported & 21,273 domestic (including 156 moderate or serious). There were 60 new deaths (ages ranging from 40+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/22 – 7/27, 57 w/ underlying conditions, 18 fully vaccinated & boosted).
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/30 Mainland China reported 74 new domestic confirmed (45 previously asymptomatic), 360 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 3 domestic confirmed cases & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 108 active domestic confirmed & 106 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple clusters at the same time.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 32 new domestic confirmed (19 previously asymptomatic) & 143 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 21 domestic confirmed & 52 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 403 active domestic confirmed & 2,288 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Haikou in Hainan Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Hunan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Hengyang) case. A person coming from Chongzuo in Guangxi to Zhengzhou in Henan, whose latest mass screening result at Chongzuo showed positive & was taken off the high speed train while stopped at Hengyang. There currently 2 active domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Hengyang & Huaihua) cases in the province.
At Wuhan at Hubei Province there currently are 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
Gansu Province reported 31 new domestic confirmed (24 previously asymptomatic) & 103 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 50 domestic confirmed & 154 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 358 active domestic confirmed & 2,935 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 10 new domestic asymptomatic cases (8 at 4th Div. of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps & 2 at Yining in Yili Prefecture). 4 of the cases at 4th Div. of XPCC were found via community screening & 4 via screening of residents in areas at elevated risk. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 11 active domestic asymptomatic (8 at 4th Div. of XPCC, 2 at Yining in Yili Prefecture, & 1 at Ürumqi) cases in the region. 1 site at Ürumqi is currently at High Risk. 2 sites at Ürumqi are currently at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 53 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Heze, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed (all at Heze) & 309 (all at Heze) domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 27 sites at Heze are currently at High Risk, & 27 at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 33 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed & 252 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Liaoning Province the last domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
At Yushu in Changchun, Jilin Province 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 40 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 site is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 7 new domestic asymptomatic (6 at Xiqing District & 1 at Jinan District) cases, 1 found via regular screening of persons in high risk occupations, & 6 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, all metro attendants. 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 24 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 33 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 5 sites are currently at High Risk & 53 at Medium Risk.
At Anhui Province 5 domestic confirmed & 47 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed & 163 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Jiangsu Province 5 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic & 17 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Zhejiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 2 sites at Taizhou are currently at High Risk, & 4 at Medium Risk.
Fujian Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Xiamen) case, found via daily screening of persons in high risk occupations. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 15 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
At Nanchang in Jiangxi Province 1 domestic confirmed & 6 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 28 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Chengdu, all of the new domestic positive cases are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 4 domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 62 sites at Chengdu & 1 at Deyang are currently at High Risk. 73 sites at Chengdu, 2 at Deyang, & 1 at Meishan are currently at Medium Risk.
At Chongqing Municipality 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 16 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 1 is currently at Medium Risk.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case (at Menglian County in Pu’er). 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 47 active domestic asymptomatic cases there.
Imported Cases
On 7/30, Mainland China reported 42 new imported confirmed cases (10 previously asymptomatic), 65 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 140 confirmed cases recovered (46 imported), 378 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (53 imported) & 55 were reclassified as confirmed cases (10 imported), & 13,946 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,731 active confirmed cases in the country (537 imported), 5 in serious/critical condition (domestic), 7,128 active asymptomatic cases (583 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 131,352 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/30, 3,422.91M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 850K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/30 Macau did not report any new domestic positive cases. There were 0 new deaths.
On 7/30 Hong Kong added 4,631 new positive cases, 176 imported & 4,455 domestic (1,590 via RT-PCR & 2,865 from rapid antigen tests), 1 new death (82 y.o., unvaccinated).
On 7/30, Taiwan added 21,069 new positive cases, 245 imported & 20,824 domestic (including 88 moderate or serious). There were 34 new deaths (ages ranging from 20+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 7/12 – 7/28, 33 w/ underlying conditions, 18 fully vaccinated & boosted).