Guy next to me on plane: “Why are you wearing a mask? You don’t need to anymore.”
Me: “It helps me mind my own business.”
— John V (@RedactedJohn) July 28, 2022
People at high risk of severe disease who have yet to get a second COVID-19 booster should not wait for next-generation, Omicron-targeted vaccines expected in the fall, five vaccine experts told Reuters. https://t.co/RULbZC6JxM
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) July 29, 2022
The U.S. government said on Friday it agreed to a $1.74 billion deal for 66 million doses of a Moderna Inc COVID vaccine updated for the Omicron subvariant for use in a fall and winter booster campaign, sending Moderna shares up 3%. https://t.co/ZgSg3HhlMd
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) July 29, 2022
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LONDON/CHICAGO, Aug 1 (Reuters) – As the third winter of the coronavirus pandemic looms in the northern hemisphere, scientists are warning weary governments and populations alike to brace for more waves of COVID-19.
In the United States alone, there could be up to a million infections a day this winter, Chris Murray, head of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent modeling group at the University of Washington that has been tracking the pandemic, told Reuters. That would be around double the current daily tally.
Across the United Kingdom and Europe, scientists predict a series of COVID waves, as people spend more time indoors during the colder months, this time with nearly no masking or social distancing restrictions in place.
However, while cases may surge again in the coming months, deaths and hospitalizations are unlikely to rise with the same intensity, the experts said, helped by vaccination and booster drives, previous infection, milder variants and the availability of highly effective COVID treatments.
“The people who are at greatest risk are those who have never seen the virus, and there’s almost nobody left,” said Murray…
The potential wild card remains whether a new variant will emerge that out-competes currently dominant Omicron subvariants.
If that variant also causes more severe disease and is better able to evade prior immunity, that would be the “worst-case scenario,” according to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) Europe report.
“All scenarios (with new variants) indicate the potential for a large future wave at a level that is as bad or worse than the 2020/2021 epidemic waves,” said the report, based on a model from Imperial College of London…
🎶Another wave bites the dust🎶 https://t.co/9B0mWqNwoM
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) July 31, 2022
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Hong Kong reported 4,254 new Covid-19 infections on Monday, of which 235 cases were imported. The city also recorded 6 new deaths.
Full, trusted coverage on HKFP: https://t.co/w8LTgNxKZy pic.twitter.com/we1cu1NHv7
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) August 1, 2022
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Japan is struggling to contain its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic, which is being driven by soaring infection rates among children and adolescents who have not been fully vaccinated.
The spread of the highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron subvariant has led to a record number of daily cases of Covid in Tokyo and cities across Japan, surpassing 230,000 for the first time last week.
Those younger than 20 made up about 30 per cent of new infections in July, compared with 19 per cent in August of last year. People below the age of 30 together accounted for about half of all new cases.
According to the World Health Organization, Japan reported the highest number of new cases in the Asia-Pacific region between the week of July 18 to 24, followed by South Korea and Australia.
Japan’s low vaccination rate among the young is in contrast to much of east Asia, where the elderly lag behind the rest of the population.
The Japanese government has been largely successful in vaccinating most of its citizens over the age of 65, which make up close to a third of the country’s total population…
Apart from the late implementation of an inoculation programme for the young, Nishi said the sharp increase in Covid cases was also due to the relatively few Japanese who were infected during the first waves of the pandemic. In Japan, less than 10 per cent of the population have been infected with Covid, compared with about 30 per cent in the US and 34 per cent in the UK…
Despite the surge in cases, the government has not imposed the kind of restrictions on social and economic activities as during previous waves. This is mainly because the number of deaths and severe cases from Covid has been low, even though cases among the elderly have also increased significantly.
In Japan, the coronavirus fatality rate is 0.3 per cent among infected people, compared with 1.1 per cent in the US and 0.8 per cent in the UK, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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Very important results showing deaths In South Africa back at pre-pandemic level, even with he BA.4 & 5 recent wave. https://t.co/WKWC3vKyHB
— Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna) July 30, 2022
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… Analysing past epidemics shows us that actual endings are long, drawn-out and contested. Societies must grapple not just with the medical realities of the disease, harms and treatments, but the political and economic fallout from emergency measures, and disputes over who has the authority to declare an end and what should be measured to guide this process. This is why there is so much uncertainty about the current state of Covid-19: different groups have vastly different experiences of the medical, political and social aspects of the epidemic, and different ideas of what an ending may look like.
Research demonstrates that the end of an epidemic involves more than disease rates (the medical end). Instead, the end also encompasses the end of the crisis and regulations (the political end), and the return to normalcy (the social end). These endings are related, but they are different – and they can be at odds with one another. Analysing a variety of past epidemics reveals that it is more accurate to identify multiple endings to an epidemic, taking these different sorts of endpoints into account.
The history of recent epidemics such as H1N1 (swine flu) or HIV/Aids bears this out. Most epidemics end not with the disappearance of disease, but when case rates no longer result in a medical crisis – a point in which rates reach what is defined as normal, expected, or locally acceptable levels. In August 2010, for example, the WHO declared that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic was in its “post-pandemic period”. This did not mark the end of H1N1 cases; instead, the WHO explained that cases and outbreaks were still expected to occur, but following normal seasonal patterns of influenza. This raises the question of what is a normal, acceptable or manageable level in a given place – particularly for a new disease. Differences of opinion over responses to Covid-19 disease rates – whether to maintain or reinstate public health measures, and when to relax them – demonstrate debates as to what is an acceptable level of infection, as well as who should decide this.
As a result, the end process is when different forms of authority negotiate and compete with one another, often debating fundamental social, economic and political priorities as much as medical data. Even in the face of persistent circulation of a disease (whether H1N1 or Covid-19), events such as war and political instability can redirect public alarm and political resources to other crises, changing what local authorities and local communities deem “normal, expected, or locally acceptable” levels of disease. Concerns about the war in Ukraine or soaring energy prices pushed Covid-19 reporting to the background, regardless of case rates…
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How to live with #Covid when you're tired of living with Covid. The BA.5 surge is a reminder that we need to take precautions to avoid illness, slow the relentless cycle of new variants & minimize the disruption to our daily lives https://t.co/XPuTs46qKC
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) July 26, 2022
Scientists are developing vaccines to target the virus family that spawned Covid-19. Here’s a look at some of the candidates that are being developed. https://t.co/BTk2vJl1du
— WIRED (@WIRED) July 26, 2022
Amid another Covid surge, tell your network of a recent diagnosis. https://t.co/mzakAGIkHd
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 31, 2022
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Conservative, former Republican:
MLB general managers are considering more than talent and payrolls ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline.
One key factor in the wheeling-and-dealing calculus — COVID-19 vaccination status.
by @davidbrandtap https://t.co/JXJzCMsnsC
— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) August 1, 2022
A hall of mirrors masquerading as ‘logic’…
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NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
121 new cases for 7/27/22
121 new cases for 7/28/22
122 new cases for 7/29/22
92 new cases for 7/30/22
112 new cases for 7/31/22
(PCR tests only)
I went to brunch with some friends for the first time in over a year. I wore a mask inside the restaurant and we ate outdoors.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I didn’t pick up any variety of ‘Rona.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I love that first tweet. I had someone ask me why I was wearing a mask just last Thursday. My planned answer for next time is “Why aren’t you wearing one?”
Lapassionara
Thanks, AL. Around here (St. Louis County), people are acting like the pandemic is over. I am still wearing a mask when I run errands, but I have not been shopping for anything but groceries. No movies, no strolling through a mall, no inside restaurant dining. I wonder what will happen when schools reopen later this month.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Nobody has ever said a word to me one way or the other but if anybody ever does my planned response is, “Because I care about your family. Don’t you?”
Chris T.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I’ve never gotten a question like that, and I probably wouldn’t be properly prepared, but what I’d like to have for a question like that is makeup showing some horrible disease under the mask. I’d peel the mask off slowly and carefully, saying, “so that you don’t catch this … oops, too late!”
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Because people like you get close enough to me to talk to me?”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: @Chris T.: This was the first time someone asked me about the mask, and I was speechless. That’s why I have an answer planned for next time. I can’t imagine trying to discipline someone else’s choice like that.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
If anyone should ever directly bring up such a rude objection to me, feel that “I’m terribly sorry but I don’t speak Asshole” would be my first response.
Suzanne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
“Because I’m responsible. Obviously you aren’t.”
“Minding your own business is free!”
“What’s it to you, motherfucker?”
“Because my mom/grandma/relation of choice died of COVID.”
“Because you smell bad.”
Take your pick.
NeenerNeener
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The last time I flew to visit relatives for Christmas, probably in 2018, there was a woman on the flight wearing a mask. It never occurred to me to be so rude as to ask her why. I just assumed she was immune-compromised and trying not to catch a cold or the flu. I don’t think anyone else asked her about it either. We seem to have become less polite in the last few years. I blame TFG.
Suzanne
@NeenerNeener:
This.
I don’t get it.
I see people acting like fucking trash and it is unfathomable to me.
Yesterday, the fam and I went over to the Strip District, this area where there are a lot of independent stores and street vendors. I was walking with my younger two Spawns, and there was this couple (looked to be late 20s/early 30s) having a fight. On a sidewalk, with strangers, including children and old people, these two were just shrieking at each other. Then they started walking in different directions away from one another, but turned toward each other and kept shouting at each other. Every pedestrian for a city block had to hear their drama. It was so gross. Like, I don’t care if one or either of them was in the right… who acts like that in a public place?!
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 2,783 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,680,053 cases. It also reported nine deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,969 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 45,306 active cases yesterday, 1,708 fewer than the day before. 1,477 were in hospital. 54 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 32 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 4,482 more patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,598,778 patients recovered – 98.3% of the cumulative reported total.
2,780 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. Three new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 8,362 doses of vaccine on 31st July: 317 first doses, 2,835 second doses, 663 first booster doses, and 4,547 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,056,478 doses administered: 28,072,001 first doses, 27,450,729 second doses, 16,186,051 first booster doses, and 347,697 second booster doses. 86.0% of the population have received their first dose, 84.1% their second dose, 49.6% their first booster dose, and 1.1% their second booster dose.
Mai Naem mobile
@Dorothy A. Winsor: i would just tell them i have COVID and then watch them run like Josh Hawley.
lowtechcyclist
Masks have basically become a partisan marker: if you’re still wearing one, you must be one of them godless Communist lie-berals. I expect that would be the reason why someone who’s not wearing a mask would ask you about yours: it’s an opportunity for one of them to be directly hostile to one of us.
Best response is one that shuts down the conversation quickly without providing an opening for that. “It helps me mind my own business” sounds like a winner to me.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@lowtechcyclist: Unfortunately, this person was a neighbor, so I hesttate to use most of the wonderful replies BJ is offering me. I’m going to be seeing this person again.
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/31 Mainland China reported 33 new domestic confirmed (17 previously asymptomatic), 244 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 5 domestic confirmed cases & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 104 active domestic confirmed & 97 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 9 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic) & 61 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 27 domestic confirmed & 118 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 385 active domestic confirmed & 2,225 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Haikou in Hainan Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Hunan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 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.
Erenhot in Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region, reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 2 found via community screening, 1 via regular screening of persons in high risk occupations, & a traced close contact under centralized quarantine.
Gansu Province reported 15 new domestic confirmed (11 previously asymptomatic) & 66 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 36 domestic confirmed & 234 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 337 active domestic confirmed & 2,756 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 14 new domestic asymptomatic cases (5 at 62nd Regt., 4th Div. of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps & 9 at Yili Prefecture). The cases at 4th Div. of XPCC are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 7 of the cases at Yili Prefecture are were reported at Yining City (all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine) & 2 at Yining County (both found via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure), There currently are 25 active domestic asymptomatic (13 at 4th Div. of XPCC, 11 at Yili Prefecture, & 1 at Ürumqi) cases in the region. 5 sites at 4th Div. of XPCC are currently at High Risk. 4 sites at 4th Div. of XPCC & 3 sites at Ürumqi are currently at Medium Risk.
Heze in Shandong Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 49 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Heze, 49 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 2 via screening of residents in areas at elevated risk. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 358 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 84 sites are currently at High Risk, & 20 at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 43 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 33 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed & 263 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Yushu in Changchun, Jilin Province there currently are 40 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
Beijing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a person that came from overseas & passed through 10 days of quarantine at Shanghai before traveling to Beijing via high speed rail, found via community screening. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 1 site is currently at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Xiqing District) case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 17 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites are currently at High Risk, & 9 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 domestic confirmed & 21 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 30 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 4 sites are currently at High Risk & 28 at Medium Risk.
At Anhui Province 5 domestic confirmed & 46 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 117 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Jiangsu Province 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic & 13 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, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 7 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 & 4 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 24 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Chengdu, 3 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 3 via screening of residents in area at elevated risk, & 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure. 1 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. 46 sites at Chengdu & 1 at Deyang are currently at High Risk. 64 sites at Chengdu & 2 at Deyang are currently at Medium Risk.
At Chongqing Municipality 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 5 is currently at Medium Risk.
Yunnan Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Menglian County in Pu’er) cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 47 active domestic asymptomatic cases there.
Imported Cases
On 7/31, Mainland China reported 51 new imported confirmed cases (6 previously asymptomatic), 65 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 137 confirmed cases recovered (58 imported), 539 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (53 imported) & 23 were reclassified as confirmed cases (6 imported), & 10,938 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,678 active confirmed cases in the country (530 imported), 4 in serious/critical condition (domestic), 6,875 active asymptomatic cases (589 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 131,649 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/31, 3,422.91M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 850K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/31 Macau did not report any new domestic positive cases. There were 0 new deaths.
On 7/31 Hong Kong added 4,254 new positive cases, 235 imported & 4,019 domestic (1,486 via RT-PCR & 2,533 from rapid antigen tests), 6 new deaths (52 – 84 y.o., 5 fully vaccinated, including 1 boosted).
On 7/31, Taiwan added 16,584 new positive cases, 232 imported & 16,352 domestic (including 39 moderate or serious). There were 36 new deaths (ages ranging from 60+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 5/20 – 7/29, 35 w/ underlying conditions, 15 fully vaccinated & boosted).
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: Yesterday, I saw it work the other way: one of the few other people in the supermarket who was wearing a mask seemed to think I was a potential friend worth an introduction.
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
“My face’s sexiness would break your eyeballs! You’re welcome!”
jonas
@Suzanne: Driving once on an LA freeway, the traffic came to a sudden halt and up ahead I saw a car that had apparently stalled in the center lane of traffic, causing a bad backup as people had to maneuver around it. As we passed the stalled car, it was clear it hadn’t broken down: the couple inside were having a screaming match at each other and the guy had simply stopped in the middle of traffic so he could gesticulate and scream harder at his girlfriend. Unfuckingbelievable. In the middle of the 405.
delphinium
@mrmoshpotato: LOL!
Suzanne
@jonas: I remember one time I was walking about six blocks (in Tempe, AZ) from the light rail station to campus, on the sidewalk. Behind me, this woman comes running at absolute top speed down the middle of the street, and she approaches this guy who is just walking, and she started screaming at him about some indiscretion and flailing at him and hitting him. Broad daylight. Middle of the road. Cars and people everywhere.
More recently, Spawn and I were stopped at a red light behind a car, and all of a sudden the driver jumps out, and driver of the car next to them jumps out, and one dude went to his trunk and grabbed a baseball bat and started swinging it at the other guy and they just threw down, right there in the middle of the road on a Sunday afternoon.
Maybe it makes me classist, but I think behaving like that with bystanders around is just disgusting.
Ken
@mrmoshpotato: I prefer “Monkeypox.”
Maybe someday I’ll break out my theater makeup and paint a selection of pustules under the mask, just in case anyone asks.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I can tell a tale of two relatives, both over 80.
My aunt got vaccinated and boosted, and took precautions, but was exposed to the virus, and endured a mild case. She recovered fully.
My uncle didn’t get vaccinated, didn’t take precautions, got exposed, and it hit him like a freight train. I still don’t know whether he’ll live through it.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Does anyone know what the booster interval is for the over 50 set? Wife and I got back from South Africa after 5 months there for an international adoption. Why were we there that long? Well let’s just say anyone in the States who complains about government corruption, inefficiency and incompetence…have not seen anything. Anyway we got boosted as soon as we got back in late June. Wondering when we might be able to get the new Omicron booster. Although we were in SA for peak BA5 and were forced to shop for everything in person because doing stuff online without a SA address or phone number wasn’t possible. Plus our “bundle of joy” is 8 and so we had him in school. Never got sick as far as we can tell. I got sick not that long after getting back but tested negative on both home and and PCR tests.
Another Scott
@Dorothy A. Winsor: “If you must know, I’m wearing it to reduce the chance of getting sick. And to reduce the chance of spreading it to others if I’m sick with no symptoms.”
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: IANAMD, but my understanding is that 5 months is good. I got my 2nd booster at 5.5 months. (I’m over 60.)
HTH! And good luck with the addition to the family!
Cheers,
Scott.
Yutsano
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I haven’t been asked yet, but if I get that question or some flak about it my planned response is thus:
“Before I answer, if I go get a doll can you show me on it where my mask touched you?”
El-Man
“Because while some people think the pandemic is over, COVID is still around, and I’m doing my part to make sure it goes away for good”.
YY_Sima Qian
On 8/1 Mainland China reported 46 new domestic confirmed (20 previously asymptomatic), 327 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case. 22 domestic confirmed cases & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 82 active domestic confirmed & 89 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 9 new domestic confirmed (7 previously asymptomatic) & 96 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 54 domestic confirmed & 235 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 385 active domestic confirmed & 2,225 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hainan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Sanya) case, a person testing positive at the high speed rail station. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Hunan Province 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.
Erenhot in Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region, reported 7 new domestic confirmed & 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 11 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Gansu Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (8 previously asymptomatic) & 69 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 44 domestic confirmed & 277 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 303 active domestic confirmed & 2,540 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 1 new domestic confirmed (at 4th Div. of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps) & 31 new domestic asymptomatic cases (28 at Yili Prefecture & 3 at 4th Div. of XPCC). 3 of cases at 4th Div. of XPCC were reported by 62nd Regt. (all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine) & 1 at 64th Regt. (found via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure). 22 of the cases at Yili Prefecture are were reported at Yining City (19 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 3 via community screening) & 6 at Yining County (all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine). 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 55 active domestic asymptomatic (39 at Yili Prefecture & 16 at 4th Div. of XPCC) cases in the region. 7 sites at 4th Div. of XPCC are currently at High Risk. 5 sites at 4th Div. of XPCC & 3 sites at Ürumqi are currently at Medium Risk.
Heze in Shandong Province reported 47 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Heze, 46 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 via screening of residents in High Risk areas. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 405 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 84 sites are currently at High Risk, & 27 at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 67 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 31 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed & 298 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Yushu in Changchun, Jilin Province there currently are 40 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
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 4 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Xiqing District) case, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 sites are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 18 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 26 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 4 sites are currently at High Risk & 28 at Medium Risk.
At Anhui Province 3 domestic confirmed & 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 16 active domestic confirmed & 97 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Jiangsu Province there currently are 1 active domestic & 13 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 7 new domestic confirmed (all at Xiamen) cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 8 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 reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 2 domestic confirmed & 5 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 21 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 sites are at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Chengdu, 4 of the new domestic positive cases are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 3 via screening of residents in area at elevated risk. 3 domestic confirmed & 5 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. 46 sites at Chengdu & 1 at Deyang are currently at High Risk. 64 sites at Chengdu & 2 at Deyang are currently at Medium Risk.
At Chongqing Municipality 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 2 are currently at Medium Risk.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 47 active domestic asymptomatic cases there.
Imported Cases
On 8/1, Mainland China reported 61 new imported confirmed cases (8 previously asymptomatic), 64 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 191 confirmed cases recovered (58 imported), 666 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (58 imported) & 28 were reclassified as confirmed cases (8 imported), & 10,425 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,594 active confirmed cases in the country (541 imported), 2 in serious/critical condition (domestic), 6,572 active asymptomatic cases (587 imported), 0 suspect cases. 129,726 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 8/1, 3,424.07M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 401K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 8/1 Macau did not report any new domestic positive cases. There were 0 new deaths.
On 8/1 Hong Kong added 4,123 new positive cases, 234 imported & 3,889 domestic (1,430 via RT-PCR & 2,459 from rapid antigen tests), 11 new deaths (22 mo. – 96 y.o., 5 fully vaccinated, including 1 boosted).
On 8/1, Taiwan added 23,556 new positive cases, 254 imported & 23,302 domestic (including 84 moderate or serious). There were 31 new deaths (ages ranging from 40+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death range from 6/13 – 7/30, 28 w/ underlying conditions, 12 fully vaccinated & boosted).