Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech said on Monday they had sought U.S. authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine booster retooled to target the Omicron variant, and would have doses available to ship immediately after regulatory clearance. https://t.co/I7JZUfHjWs
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) August 22, 2022
The new boosters are bivalent vaccines. Ancestral strain plus Omicron. The idea is broad protection from a virus that is strayed quite a lot. (2)
Pfizer’s vaccine will be ready first— the first week to 10 days of September is the best estimate.
Moderna will follow the first week in October. (3)
Should you wait to get them?
Unless you are high risk and unboosted this year, it makes sense to wait the few weeks until they are available. Special circumstances like travel might cause you not to. (4)…
How effective can we expect these vaccines to be? All we have is lab work not real world evidence. The FDA tells me that will be a big focus this time around which will serve us well in the future.
Against BA.5 (90% of cases), the expectation is a strong antibody response.(10)…
The bad news I alluded to?
These are the last vaccines that will be free unless Congress changes.
And it will be the drug companies that will set the price & insurance companies that decide how much we pay. (13)…
Read the whole thread here.
Building the ship while sailing it: Pfizer has asked @US_FDA to authorize its updated Covid boosters. The Biden administration wants to start using said boosters next month. The human trials of said boosters haven't yet started. @matthewherper explains. https://t.co/ZLuIlz3PDz
— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) August 22, 2022
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, announced he is stepping down in December https://t.co/BshC1mdyrm pic.twitter.com/6RdRInGhs7
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2022
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When Alice Hughes downloaded a preprint from the server Research Square in September 2021, she could hardly believe her eyes. The study described a massive effort to survey bat viruses in China, in search of clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. A team of 21 researchers from the country’s leading academic institutions had trapped more than 17,000 bats, from the subtropical south to the frigid northeast, and tested them for relatives of SARS-CoV-2.
The number they found: zero…
“I don’t believe it for a second,” says Hughes, a conservation biologist who’s now at Hong Kong University. Between May 2019 and November 2020, she had done her own survey of 342 bats in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, a branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Yunnan province where she worked at the time. As her team reported in Cell in June 2021, it found four viruses related to SARS-CoV-2 in the garden, which is about three times the size of New York City’s Central Park…
But the paper meshed with a growing political reality in China. From the start of the pandemic, the Chinese government—like many foreign researchers—has vigorously rejected the idea that SARS-CoV-2 somehow originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and escaped. But over the past 2 years, it has also started to push back against what many regard as the only plausible alternative scenario: The pandemic started in China with a virus that naturally jumped from bats to an “intermediate” species and then to humans—most likely at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan.
Beijing was open to the idea at first. But today it points to myriad ways SARS-CoV-2 could have arrived in Wuhan from abroad, borne by contaminated frozen food or infected foreigners—perhaps at the Military World Games in Wuhan, in October 2019—or released accidentally by a U.S. military lab located more than 12,000 kilometers from Wuhan. Its goal is to avoid being blamed for the pandemic in any way, says Filippa Lentzos, a sociologist at King’s College London who studies biological threats and health security. “China just doesn’t want to look bad,” she says. “They need to maintain an image of control and competence. And that is what goes through everything they do.”
The idea of a pandemic origin outside China is preposterous to many scientists, regardless of their position on whether the virus started with a lab leak or a natural jump from animals. There’s simply no way SARS-CoV-2 could have come from some foreign place to Wuhan and triggered an explosive outbreak there without first racing through humans at the site of its origin. “The idea that the pandemic didn’t originate in China is inconsistent with so many other things,” says Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who has argued for more intensive studies of the WIV lab accident scenario. “When you eliminate the absurd, it’s Wuhan,” says virologist Gregory Towers of University College London, who leans toward a natural origin.
Yet Chinese researchers have published a flurry of papers supporting their government’s “anywhere-but-here” position. Multiple studies report finding no signs of SARS-CoV-2–related viruses or antibodies in bats and other wild and captive animals in China. Others offer clues that the virus hitched a ride to China on imported food or its packaging. On the flip side, Chinese researchers are not pursuing—or at least not publishing—obvious efforts to trace the sources of the mammals sold at the Huanan market, which could yield clues to the virus’ origins…
This is a good description of how science works: by hard work, systematic analysis, following the data and peer-reviewed publication. The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here's how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market https://t.co/NTw6IXnJZw via @ConversationEDU
— Prof. Peter Doherty (@ProfPCDoherty) August 19, 2022
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Pfizer Inc to test the effects of an additional course of its antiviral Paxlovid among people who experience a rebound in COVID-19 after treatment, the regulator said on Friday. https://t.co/aXlLBLjpTb
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) August 20, 2022
Retrospective analysis (just out in @CIDJournal) of Paxlovid Rx in vaccinated high-risk outpatients shows a strong association between treatment and improved outcomes. Thanks to @SarjuGanatraMD & @SaurabhSDani for leading this interesting study.https://t.co/SKEszJIWlK pic.twitter.com/nuTjQMfGLJ
— Paul Sax (@PaulSaxMD) August 20, 2022
The Lancet study seems to be generating a lot of anxiety on twitter, but keep in mind: The ‘increased risks’ are large jumps in relatively small actual numbers:
… The study group, which included 185,000 children and 242,000 older adults, revealed that risks differed according to age, with people 65 and older at greatest risk of lasting neuropsychiatric effects.
For people between the ages of 18 and 64, a particularly significant increased risk was of persistent brain fog, affecting 6.4 percent of people who had had covid compared with 5.5 percent in the control group.
The study found that 4.5 percent of older people developed dementia in the two years after infection, compared with 3.3 percent of the control group. That 1.2-point increase in a diagnosis as damaging as dementia is particularly worrisome, the researchers said.
The study’s reliance on a trove of de-identified electronic health data raised some cautions, particularly considering the tumultuous time of the pandemic. Tracking long-term outcomes may be hard when patients may have sought care through many different health systems, including some outside the TriNetX network…
There are >118 million Americans age 50+ in the US, a very high proportion left vulnerable
45% haven't had a 1st booster
With current ~500 deaths per day, the CDC should be providing a breakdown by vax/booster status pic.twitter.com/5m5i4fRljU— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 20, 2022
.@US_FDA extends the emergency use authorization for Novavax's Covid vaccine. It can now be be given to tweens & teens 12-17.
It's the first non-mRNA vaccine authorized for use in people under the age of 18 in the US. pic.twitter.com/73wpNAMeFJ— Helen Branswell 🇺🇦 (@HelenBranswell) August 19, 2022
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1) if trump were still president, liberals would have a lot of other more pressing concerns
2) there is no political will — and there is now *significant* political cost — to try to enforce more stringent covid protocols, anywhere in the country. https://t.co/egmMPQMegd
— GONELIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) August 20, 2022
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Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, remains a sociopath:
Carlson is talking about the number of murders in Philadelphia, and suggesting the death toll from Covid was far less.
More ppl died of Covid in Philadelphia in two months in spring 2020 than have been murdered over the past 2 yrs. https://t.co/WqZsCXj8u5
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) August 22, 2022
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NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
103 new cases for 8/19/22
104 new cases for 8/21/22
79 new cases for 8/22/22
The Monroe County independent COVID tracker web site has pretty much rolled up the sidewalks and passed all of the tracking off to NYSDOH.
NYSDOH says we’ve had a total of 1987 deaths from COVID, up about 40 from what the Monroe County independent web site said last week.
germy shoemangler
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 2,078 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,759,830 cases. It also reported 10 deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 36,155 deaths – 0.76% of the cumulative reported total, 0.77% of resolved cases.
22,628 Covid-19 tests were conducted on 20th August, with a positivity rate of 8.4%.
There were 37,696 active cases yesterday, 1,222 fewer than the day before. 1,409 were in hospital. 69 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 39 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 3,290 more patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,685,979 patients recovered – 98.4% of the cumulative reported total.
2,066 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 12 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 3,944 doses of vaccine on 22nd August: 276 first doses, 442 second doses, 949 first booster doses, and 2,277 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,229,948 doses administered: 28,088,313 first doses, 27,487,182 second doses, 16,210,100 first booster doses, and 444,353 second booster doses. 86.0% of the population have received their first dose, 84.2% their second dose, 49.6% their first booster dose, and 1.4% their second booster dose.
New Deal democrat
The CDC has updated it’s variant proportions data through August 20, showing very little change from the previous week. BA.5 constituted 90% of all cases, BA.4.6 6%, and BA.4 4%. BA.4.6 only increased 1% from 5% the previous week. Even in the Northern Plains, where BA.4.6 is at its highest levels, it only increased from 14% to 16% of cases.
Biobot has not been updated since the 17th, showing an overall 33% decline in COVID. The decline is most pronounced in the West (50%) and South (33%), with smaller declines in the Northeast and Midwest.
Similarly, confirmed cases have declined about 40% from their recent peak to 81,600. Hospitalizations are down about 15% from their recent peak to 40,600. Deaths are steady at 478. No States stand out as particularly deviating from the trends in cases.
As anticipated, with no new variant supplanting the dominant BA.5, cases have continued to decline. Until a new “improved” variant appears, or resistance gained from recent infections wanes, I expect this trend to continue. Hospitalizations should decline to about 30,000 in the coming weeks, and deaths should start to decline back towards 300 or 350.
Fair Economist
The genetics of COVID make its origin crystal clear; it jumped from bats to some other species, evolved there for a couple of decades, and then jumped again to humans. Viruses jumping to humans almost always always come over from livestock, pets, or commensals, because such a virus can adapt to humans over time by using us as a vector. There is a very strong candidate in racoon dogs, which get COVID but don’t get very sick from it.
My take on the new Chinese disinfo program is that racoon dog farmers know this too and are corruptly manipulating the Chinese government to push this not-from-China nonsense. If indeed it’s ever shown that racoon dogs or some similar farmed species (mink are also a good candidate) was the intermediate there will be a huge backlash against fur farming – and their business. (Not only would it make them responsible; it could happen again. ) There used to be a lot of fur farms near one of the great bat caves; (hmmm…); China already shut those all down.
That some kind of political pressure can corrupt Chinese science so blatantly and quickly is depressing and horrifying.
J R in WV
We are still wearing masks, were not surprised when the PT shop put up signs on the front door requiring masks to enter, also not surprised that many people evidently cannot read and just come on in. Then staff ask them if they need a mask… the stupid, it burns.
At the big Kroger’s where I shop, very few shoppers are wearing masks now. Less than 10% would be my guess. I bought a 25-pack of N95 masks at the Lumber yard. And I still have extra cartridges for the 3M industrial respirators I have had for years now.
We all have had the four shots available, all being Wife and I and close neighbors on both sides. Neighbors across the creek are quite religious, and picked up anti-vax nonsense via numbskulls at church, and so all had Covid eventually.
They are good neighbors, except for the covid thing. After heavy rains not long ago he used his tractor to pull gravel that had washed out of our farm road onto the county road back up to our road, we caught him hard at work one morning on our way out to town, he has a box scraper which is great for that kind of work. The mouth of the farm road was better when he left than it had been in years, until the next rain, anyway..,
Fair Economist
In terms of “large increase in small numbers”, if there is a 1% chance of serious brain dysfunction every time somebody gets COVID, it will be societally catastrophic over time.
Betty
@Fair Economist: And Rand Paul is still yammering about Fauci lying about this and his intention to investigate blah, blah, blah. I guess they don’t have much else to use to distract people from their terrible performance.
Suzanne
@germy shoemangler: I’ve told this story before, but it still astonishes me. In Spring 2021, Mr. Suzanne and I planned to have our wood floors refinished. I reached out to a local company with good reviews. A father-and-son pair came out to measure the space, look at the current condition, and give us an estimate. While w had them in the house, we sent our kids upstairs, and Mr. Suzanne and I wore masks. The father was seriously overweight, probably in his late 50s, but looked older. He struggled to get up the outside stairs to our front door. I was concerned he would pass out right there in my house, just an absolute mess. Anyway, he wore the mask that we offered grudgingly, but said that he refused — absolutely refused — to get vaccinated. Anyway, we ended up finding that refinishing those floors wasn’t going to work out, but we planned to use them to do the floors in our attic area at a later date. I went to call them about six months later to do the attic floors….and the business was gone. I’ve tried to find out if he’s still alive. But this longtime, well-respected business has just disappeared.
YY_Sima Qian
On 8/22 Mainland China reported 308 new domestic confirmed (65 previously asymptomatic), 1,440 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 7 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 13 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 214 active domestic confirmed & 51 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 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 5 domestic confirmed & 31 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed & 141 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hainan Province reported 205 new domestic confirmed (49 previously asymptomatic) & 520 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 448 domestic confirmed & 369 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6,489 active domestic confirmed, 9,655 active domestic asymptomatic, & 1 active domestic suspect 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 outbreaks at the same time.
Hunan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Huarong County in Yueyang) cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed (5 at Changsha, 4 at Yueyang, & 2 at Loudi) & 5 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Huaihua) cases in the province. 2 sites at Yueyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all at Nanzhang County in Xiangyang) & 8 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Nanzhang County in Xiangyang & 1 at Zhangwan District in Wuhan) cases. The cases at Xiangyang are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The case at Wuhan came from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed (6 at Xiangyang & 1 each at Qianjiang & Shiyan) & 121 active domestic asymptomatic (63 at Shiyan, 13 at Qianjiang, 35 at Xiangyang, & 10 at Wuhan) cases in the city. 1 site each at Shiyan & Xiangyang are currently at High Risk. 1 site each at Shiyan & Xiangyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 3 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 42 active domestic confirmed & 23 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Gansu Province reported 23 new domestic asymptomatic (9 at Zhenyuan County in Qingyang, 6 at Linxia Prefecture, 5 at Minle County in Zhangye, & 3 at Lanzhou) cases, all persons coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival, or traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 11 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 71 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. 20 sites at Qingyang & 1 at Longnan are currently at High Risk. 5 sites at Qingyang & 2 at Longnan are currently at Medium Risk.
Wuzhong in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Shanxi Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 each at Yangqu District in Taiyuan & Yu County in Yangquan) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Taigu District in Jinzhong) cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 14 active domestic confirmed (4 each at Jincheng & Yuncheng, & 2 each at Jinzhong, Taiyuan & Yangquan) & 3 active domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Jincheng, Jinzhong & Yuncheng) cases in the province. 1 site at Yuncheng is currently at High Risk. 9 sites at Yuncheng & 4 at Jinzhong are currently at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 13 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 77 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 179 active domestic confirmed & 276 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 outbreaks at the same time.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 4 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 178 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 202 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 43 active domestic confirmed & 3,503 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Shandong Province 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (1 each at Jinan & Qingdao) & 20 domestic asymptomatic (9 at Heze, 4 at Rizhao, 3 each at Linyi & Weihai, & 1 at Zaozhuang) cases in the city. 1 site at Rizhao is currently at Medium Risk.
Hebei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 35 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 outbreaks at the same time. 5 sites at Zhangjiakou, 2 at Handan, & 1 at Baoding are currently at High Risk. 8 sites at Zhangjiakou, 3 at Cangzhou, 5 at Handan, & 2 at Baoding are currently at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 11 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 194 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Liaoning Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Dalian) cases, both from persons under centralized quarantine. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed (all at Jinzhou) & 18 active domestic asymptomatic (16 at Dalian & 1 at Jinzhou) cases in the province. 1 site at Dalian is currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Hunchun) case, . There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (both at Changchun) & 9 active domestic asymptomatic (8 at Changchun & 1 at Hunchun) cases in the province.
Heilongjiang Province reported 5 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Qiqihar & 1 at Daqing) cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 24 active domestic asymptomatic (11 at Daqing, 5 at Heihe, & 8 at Qiqihar) cases in the province. 23 sites at Daqing & 2 each at Heihe & Qiqihar are currently at High Risk. 11 sites at Daqing, 4 at Qiqihar, & 6 at Heihe are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 2 sites are currently at High Risk, & 4 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 4 domestic domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 3 sites are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk.
Anqing in Anhui Province reported 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Huaining County, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 1 active domestic & 12 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 14 sites at currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed (all at Nanjing) & 21 active domestic asymptomatic (13 at Wuxi, 5 at Suzhou, 2 at Nanjing, & 1 at Taizhou) cases in the province. 6 sites at Wuxi are currently is at High Risk. 6 sites at Wuxi are currently at Medium Risk.
Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Ningbo) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Jinhua) cases, 1 from persons under centralized quarantine & 1 coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. 10 domestic confirmed & 44 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. 6 sites at Wenzhou & 1 each at Hangzhou & Ningbo are currently at High Risk. 3 sites at Wenzhou & 1 each at Hangzhou & Ningbo are currently at Medium Risk.
Fujian Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (all at Jinjiang in Quanzhou) case, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 92 active domestic confirmed & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 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. 4 sites at Quanzhou & 2 at Xiamen are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Guixi in Yingtan. 13 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 21 active domestic confirmed (all at Yingtan) & 182 active domestic asymptomatic (144 at Yingtan, 24 at Yichun, 7 at Shangrao, 2 each at Nanchang, Ji’an & Fuzhou, & 1 at Jiujiang) cases in the province. 31 sites at Yingtan are currently at High Risk. 61 sites at Yingtan, 4 at Shangrao, & 1 at Yichun are currently at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic, 4 at Chengdu & 1 each at Dazhou & Guangyuan) & 7 new domestic asymptomatic (2 each at Chengdu, Ngawa Prefecture & Nanchong, & 1 at Dazhou) cases. 3 of the cases at Chengdu were previously asymptomatic, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine, & 2 coming from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival. The cases at Nanchong are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 10 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The cases at Dazhou, Guangyuan & Ngawa Prefecture came from out of province & under centralized quarantine. The remaining cases came from out of Tibet & under centralized quarantine since arrival. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there. 3 sites at Nanchong are currently at High Risk. 4 sites each at Ngawa Prefecture & Nanchong, & 3 at Chengdu are currently at Medium Risk.
Chongqing Municipality reported 23 new domestic confirmed (18 at Shapingba District, 3 at Jiulongpo District, & 2 at Ba’nan District) & 8 new domestic asymptomatic (5 at Shapingba District, 2 at Ba’nan District, & 1 at Jiulongpo District) cases, 22 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 8 via screening of residents in areas at elevated risk, & 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure. 4 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 55 active domestic confirmed & 55 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 12 sites are currently at High Risk, & 14 at Medium Risk.
Guizhou Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Qixingguan District in Bijie) case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed (3 each at Zunyi & Qiannan Prefecture, & 1 at & Tongren) & 7 active domestic asymptomatic (4 at Qiannan Prefecture, 2 at Bijie, & 1 at Zunyi) cases in the city. 1 site at Qiannan Prefecture is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Qinghai Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Haixi Prefecture) & 54 new domestic asymptomatic (31 at Haixi Prefecture, 19 at Yushu Prefecture, 3 at Xining, & 1 at Huangnan Prefecture) cases. The cases at Haixi Prefecture are traced closer contacts under centralized quarantine or via screening of residents under movement control. The cases at Xining are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 12 of cases at Yushu Prefecture are persons under centralized quarantine & 7 via community screening. The case at Huangnan Prefecture is a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 19 active domestic confirmed & 357 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple outbreaks at the same time. 3 each sites at Haidong & Haixi Prefecture, 2 at Huangnan Prefecture, & 1 at Hainan Prefecture are currently at High Risk. 4 sites each at Haidong & Huangnan Prefecture, & 2 each at Hainan & Haixi Prefectures are currently at Medium Risk.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 27 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 518 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 9 domestic confirmed & 40 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 295 active domestic confirmed & 3,565 active domestic asymptomatic cases. The region is not breaking the counts of active domestic positive cases by administrative region.
Yunnan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases, both at Kunming, both from persons under centralized quarantine since arrival. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 22 active domestic asymptomatic cases there. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple outbreaks at the same time. 1 site Kunming is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 8/22, Mainland China reported 74 new imported confirmed cases (10 previously asymptomatic), 73 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 574 confirmed cases recovered (61 imported), 840 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (88 imported) & 75 were reclassified as confirmed cases (10 imported), & 27,998 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 8,391 active confirmed cases in the country (712 imported), 35 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 22,161 active asymptomatic cases (747 imported), 0 suspect cases. 220,686 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 8/22, 3,430.297M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 309K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 8/22, Hong Kong added 6,654 new positive cases, 244 imported & 6,410 domestic (2,192 via RT-PCR & 4,218 from rapid antigen tests), 10 new deaths (69 – 105 y.o., only 2 boosted).
On 8/22, Taiwan added 26,382 new positive cases, 287 imported & 26,095 domestic (including 28 moderate or serious). There were 16 new deaths (ages ranging from 50+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death ranging form 7/23 to 8/20, all w/ underlying conditions, 7 fully vaccinated & boosted).
YY_Sima Qian
@Fair Economist: The raccoon dog farmers aren’t that powerful. However, the Great Power Competition has sent CCP regime into a hardened defensive crouch against any foreign criticism, real or imagined. Any domestic criticism are easily painted as doing the bidding of foreign powers looking to bring down the regime & sow chaos in China. These pre-prints (I can’t imagine them surviving the peer review process w/o major changes for any of the top reputable journals) are part of the what the CCP regime sees as the struggle for “discursive power” against the US. BTW, this struggle go in both directions.
However, you are right that this is a depressing development.
dnfree
Just so all you contributors if information and commentary know, I’m still reading and learning from these updates, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Thank you!
YY_Sima Qian
On 8/23 Mainland China reported 380 new domestic confirmed (180 previously asymptomatic), 1,261 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 17 new domestic confirmed (10 previously asymptomatic) & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 15 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 216 active domestic confirmed & 44 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 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 12 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 35 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hainan Province reported 264 new domestic confirmed (161 previously asymptomatic) & 366 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 555 domestic confirmed & 532 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6,198 active domestic confirmed, 9,328 active domestic asymptomatic, & 1 active domestic suspect 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 outbreaks at the same time.
Hunan Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Huarong County in Yueyang) cases, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (5 at Changsha, 4 at Yueyang, & 1 at Loudi) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic (3 at Huaihua & 1 at Yueyang) cases in the province. 2 sites at Yueyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Xiangyang. The cases at Xiangyang are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The case at Wuhan came from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival. 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (8 at Xiangyang & 1 each at Qianjiang & Shiyan) & 126 active domestic asymptomatic (62 at Shiyan, 10 each at Qianjiang & Wuhan, 44 at Xiangyang) cases in the city. 1 site each at Shiyan & Xiangyang are currently at High Risk. 1 site each at Shiyan & Xiangyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 7 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 36 active domestic confirmed & 20 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Gansu Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 2 at Xihe County in Longnan & 1 at Zhenyuan County in Qingyang)& 4 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Dingxi & 1 at Zhenyuan County in Qingyang) cases, all new domestic positive cases are persons coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival, or traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 72 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. 28 sites at Qingyang & 1 at Longnan are currently at High Risk. 5 sites at Qingyang & 2 at Longnan are currently at Medium Risk.
At Wuzhong in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region there currently are 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Shanxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both at Yangqu District in Taiyuan, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed (4 each at Jincheng & Yuncheng, 3 at Taiyuan, & 2 each at Jinzhong & Yangquan) & 4 active domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Jincheng, Jinzhong, Taiyuan & Yuncheng) cases in the province. 1 site at Yuncheng is currently at High Risk. 9 sites at Yuncheng & 4 at Jinzhong are currently at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 15 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 26 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 8 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 186 active domestic confirmed & 297 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 outbreaks at the same time.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 6 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 169 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 5 domestic confirmed & 354 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 44 active domestic confirmed & 3,317 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Shandong Province 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (1 each at Jinan & Qingdao) & 16 domestic asymptomatic (5 at Heze, 4 at Rizhao, 3 each at Linyi & Weihai, & 1 at Zaozhuang) cases in the city. 1 site at Rizhao is currently at Medium Risk.
Hebei Province reported 10 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Zhuozhou in Baoding & 2 at Hanshan District in Handan) cases. The cases at Baoding came from Qinghai on 8/17 & tested positive on 8/22, & 1 is a traced close contact. The cases at Handan came from Gansu on 8/19 & tested positive during at home health monitoring period. 1 asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 4 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 outbreaks at the same time. 4 sites at Zhangjiakou, 2 each at Handan & Baoding are currently at High Risk. 8 sites at Zhangjiakou, 3 at Cangzhou, 5 at Handan, & 2 at Baoding are currently at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 16 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 16 active domestic confirmed & 210 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Liaoning Province reported 11 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Shenyang & 2 each at Dalian & Tieling) cases. 4 of the cases at Shenyang came form Tianjin on 8/18 & tested positive during community screening on 8/22, & 3 are traced close contacts. The cases at Tieling are traced close contacts of domestic positive cases at Shenyang & under centralized quarantine. The cases at Dalian are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed (all at Jinzhou) & 29 active domestic asymptomatic (18 at Dalian, 7 at Shenyang, 2 at Tieling & 2 at Jinzhou) cases in the province. 1 site at Dalian is currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (both at Changchun) & 8 active domestic asymptomatic (7 at Changchun & 1 at Hunchun) cases in the province.
Heilongjiang Province reported 6 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Gannan District in Qiqihar & 4 at Sartu District in Daqing) cases. 3 of the cases at Daqing are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening. The cases at Qiqihar are traced close contacts of domestic positive cases elsewhere & under centralized quarantine. There currently are 30 active domestic asymptomatic (15 at Daqing, 5 at Heihe, & 10 at Qiqihar) cases in the province. 6 sites at Daqing & 2 each at Heihe & Qiqihar are currently at High Risk. 11 sites at Daqing, 4 at Qiqihar, & 6 at Heihe are currently at Medium Risk.
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, & 4 at Medium Risk.
At Tianjin Municipality 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
Shanghai Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 2 sites are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Huaining County in Anqing) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic (5 at Huaining County in Anqing & 1 at Shushan District in Hefei) cases. The cases at Anqing are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The case at Hefei came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. There currently are 2 active domestic (both at Anqing) & 18 active domestic asymptomatic (17 at Anqing & 1 at Hefei) cases in the city. 14 sites at currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
At Jiangsu Province there currently are 3 active domestic confirmed (all at Nanjing) & 21 active domestic asymptomatic (13 at Wuxi, 5 at Suzhou, 2 at Nanjing, & 1 at Taizhou) cases in the province. 6 sites at Wuxi are currently is at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Ningbo) case, from persons under centralized quarantine. 12 domestic confirmed & 49 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. 1 site each at Wenzhou & Ningbo are currently at High Risk. 1 site each at Wenzhou, Hangzhou & Ningbo are currently at Medium Risk.
Fujian Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Jinjiang in Quanzhou) case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 3 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 89 active domestic confirmed & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 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. 4 sites at Quanzhou & 1 at Xiamen are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangxi Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Guixi in Yingtan) & 26 new domestic asymptomatic (24 at Guixi in Yingtan & 2 at Dongxiang in Fuzhou) cases. 6 domestic confirmed & 50 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 17 active domestic confirmed (all at Yingtan) & 158 active domestic asymptomatic (122 at Yingtan, 21 at Yichun, 7 at Shangrao, 4 at Fuzhou, 2 at Nanchang, & 1 each at Ji’an & Jiujiang) cases in the province. 30 sites at Yingtan & 4 at Fuzhou are currently at High Risk. 57 sites at Yingtan, 7 at Fuzhou, & 3 at Shangrao are currently at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 15 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic, 9 at Chengdu & 6 at Nanchong) & 22 new domestic asymptomatic (13 at Nanchong, 8 at Chengdu, & 1 at Ngawa Prefecture) cases. 2 of the cases at Chengdu were previously asymptomatic, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine, 4 coming from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival, & 10 quarantine hotel worker living in “closed loops” found via daily screening. The cases at Nanchong are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 4 of the cases at Nanchong were found via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure, & 15 are traced close contacts. The cases at Ngawa Prefecture came from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival. The remaining cases came from out of Tibet & under centralized quarantine since arrival. 4 domestic confirmed & 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. 6 sites at Nanchong are currently at High Risk. 12 sites at Nanchong, 4 at Ngawa Prefecture, & 3 at Chengdu are currently at Medium Risk.
Chongqing Municipality reported 21 new domestic confirmed (13 at Shapingba District, 4 at Ba’nan District, & 1 each at Dadukou, Jiulongpo, Nan’an & Jiangjin Districts) & 19 new domestic asymptomatic (10 at Shapingba District, 3 at Jiulongpo District, 2 at Nan’an District, & 1 each at Ba’nan, Changshou, Yubei & Yuzhong Districts) cases, 28 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 11 via screening of residents in areas at elevated risk, & 1 have travel history in areas w/ outbreaks. 2 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 74 active domestic confirmed & 72 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 24 sites are currently at High Risk, & 25 at Medium Risk.
Guizhou Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Qixingguan District in Bijie) cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed (3 at Qiannan Prefecture, 2 at Zunyi, & 1 at & Tongren) & 8 active domestic asymptomatic (4 at Bijie, 3 at Qiannan Prefecture, & 1 at Zunyi) cases in the city. 1 site at Qiannan Prefecture is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Qinghai Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all at Xining) & 40 new domestic asymptomatic (26 at Haixi Prefecture, 7 at Yushu Prefecture, 6 at Haidong, & 1 at Xining) cases. The cases at Haixi Prefecture are traced closer contacts under centralized quarantine. The cases at Xining are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The cases at Yushu Prefecture are persons under home/centralized quarantine. The cases at Haidong are traced close contact under centralized quarantine. 2 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 20 active domestic confirmed & 394 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple outbreaks at the same time. 3 each sites at Haidong & Haixi Prefecture, & 1 at Huangnan Prefecture are currently at High Risk. 2 sites each at Haidong & Haixi Prefecture, 3 at Huangnan Prefecture, & 1 at Hainan Prefecture are currently at Medium Risk.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 23 new domestic confirmed & 543 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 31 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 314 active domestic confirmed & 4,077 active domestic asymptomatic cases. The region is not breaking the counts of active domestic positive cases by administrative region.
Yunnan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, both at Kunming) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Baoshan & Kunming) cases. 1 of the cases at Kunming was previously asymptomatic & 2 from persons under centralized quarantine. The case at Baoshan is a truck driver coming from elsewhere & tested positive upon arrival. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 22 active domestic asymptomatic cases there. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple outbreaks at the same time. 1 site Kunming is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 8/23, Mainland China reported 33 new imported confirmed cases (7 previously asymptomatic), 70 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 718 confirmed cases recovered (85 imported), 1,159 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (99 imported) & 187 were reclassified as confirmed cases (7 imported), & 31,935 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 8,086 active confirmed cases in the country (660 imported), 43 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 22,146 active asymptomatic cases (711 imported), 0 suspect cases. 210,301 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 8/23, 3,430.624M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 327K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 8/23, Hong Kong added 7,884 new positive cases, 207 imported & 7,677 domestic (2,934 via RT-PCR & 4,743 from rapid antigen tests), 14 new deaths (45 – 97 y.o., 5 unvaccinated & none boosted).
On 8/23, Taiwan added 28,570 new positive cases, 173 imported & 28,397 domestic (including 127 moderate or serious). There were 18 new deaths (ages ranging from 30+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., actual dates of death ranging form 7/23 to 8/20, 17 w/ underlying conditions, 5 fully vaccinated & boosted).
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On 8/24 Mainland China reported 345 new domestic confirmed (133 previously asymptomatic), 1,289 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 14 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 216 active domestic confirmed & 44 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 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 7 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 136 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hainan Province reported 217 new domestic confirmed (125 previously asymptomatic) & 309 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 568 domestic confirmed & 695 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 5,847 active domestic confirmed & 8,727 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 outbreaks at the same time.
Hunan Province reported 4 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Huarong County in Yueyang & 1 at Hengyang) cases. The cases at Yueyang are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The case at Hengyang came from Tibet on 8.23 & under centralized quarantine since arrival. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (5 at Changsha, 4 at Yueyang, & 1 at Loudi) & 8 active domestic asymptomatic (4 at Yueyang, 3 at Huaihua, & 1 at Hengyang) cases in the province. 2 sites at Yueyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Xiangyang) & 12 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Wuhan & 4 at Xiangyang) cases. 2 of the cases at Wuhan were found via community screening & 6 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine or movement control. The cases at Xiangyang are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (9 at Xiangyang & 1 at Shiyan) & 133 active domestic asymptomatic (61 at Shiyan, 48 at Xiangyang, 18 at Wuhan, & 6 at Qianjiang) cases in the city. 1 site each at Shiyan & Xiangyang are currently at High Risk. 1 site each at Shiyan & Xiangyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region did not report any new domestic positive cases. 6 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 30 active domestic confirmed (13 at Ulanqab, 6 at Hulun Buir, 4 at Xilingol League, 3 at Hohhot, & 2 each at Erdos & Baotou) & 17 active domestic asymptomatic (11 at Ulanqab, 3 at Alxa League, 2 at Hulun Buir, & 1 at Xilingol League) cases in the city. 3 sites at Hulun Buir are currently at High Risk. 7 sites at Hulun Buir & 2 at Xilingol League are currently at Medium Risk.
Gansu Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (1 each at Longxi County in Dingxi & Zhenyuan County in Qingyang) cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 69 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. 28 sites at Qingyang & 1 at Longnan are currently at High Risk. 5 sites at Qingyang & 2 at Longnan are currently at Medium Risk.
At Wuzhong in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region there currently are 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Shanxi Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 each at Yangqu District in Taiyuan, Yu County in Yangquan & Yuanqu County in Yuncheng) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Yangqu District in Taiyuan) cases. The cases at Taiyuan & Yangquan are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The case at Yuncheng was found via regular screening of persons in high risk occupations. There currently are 18 active domestic confirmed (5 at Yuncheng, 4 each at Jincheng & Taiyuan, 3 at Yangquan, & 2 at Jinzhong) & 5 active domestic asymptomatic (2 at Taiyuan, 1 each at Jincheng, Jinzhong & Yuncheng) cases in the province. 1 site at Yuncheng is currently at High Risk. 9 sites at Yuncheng & 4 at Jinzhong are currently at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 16 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 51 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 3 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 199 active domestic confirmed & 345 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 outbreaks at the same time.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 13 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 154 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 295 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 53 active domestic confirmed & 3,175 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Qingdao) case, a person coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (1 each at Jinan & Qingdao) & 15 domestic asymptomatic (4 at Heze, 3 each at Linyi, Rizhao & Weihai, & 1 at Qingdao & Zaozhuang) cases in the city. 1 site at Rizhao is currently at Medium Risk.
Hebei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic, at Shahe in Xingtai) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Laishui County in Baoding) cases, both new domestic positive cases came from out of province, 1 found during at home health monitoring & the other under centralized quarantine. 4 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 domestic confirmed & 41 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 outbreaks at the same time. 5 sites at Baoding, 2 each at Handan & Zhangjiakou are currently at High Risk. 3 sites at Cangzhou, 5 at Handan, & 2 each at Baoding & Zhangjiakou are currently at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 23 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 18 active domestic confirmed & 231 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Liaoning Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Benxi) & 7 new domestic asymptomatic (5 at Shenyang & 1 each at Benxi & Tieling) cases. The cases at Shenyang are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The case at Tieling is a traced close contact of domestic positive cases at Shenyang & under centralized quarantine. The cases at Benxi are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed (7 at Jinzhou & 2 at Benxi) & 36 active domestic asymptomatic (18 at Dalian, 12 at Shenyang, 3 at Tieling, 2 at Jinzhou, & 1 at Benxi) cases in the province. 1 site at Dalian is currently at Medium Risk.
At Jilin Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (both at Changchun) & 7 active domestic asymptomatic (6 at Changchun & 1 at Hunchun) cases in the province.
Heilongjiang Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Sartu District in Daqing) case, a traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 31 active domestic asymptomatic (16 at Daqing, 5 at Heihe, & 10 at Qiqihar) cases in the province. 9 sites at Daqing & 2 each at Heihe & Qiqihar are currently at High Risk. 24 sites at Daqing, 4 at Qiqihar, & 6 at Heihe are currently at Medium Risk.
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, & 4 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases, 1 came from Tibet on 8/23 & under centralized quarantine since arrival, & the other came from elsewhere on 8/21, developed symptoms on 8/24 & tested positive at fever clinic. 1 site is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 5 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & a person coming from out of province & found via community screening (at Pudong New Area). 2 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 4 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, & 2 at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Huaining County in Anqing) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic (5 at Huaining County in Anqing & 1 at Shushan District in Hefei) cases. The cases at Anqing are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The case at Hefei came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. There currently are 2 active domestic (both at Anqing) & 18 active domestic asymptomatic (17 at Anqing & 1 at Hefei) cases in the city. 14 sites at currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a person coming from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed (all at Nanjing) & 22 active domestic asymptomatic (13 at Wuxi, 5 at Suzhou, 2 at Nanjing, & 1 each at Suzhou & Taizhou) cases in the province. 6 sites at Wuxi are currently is at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
Zhejiang Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Shaoxing) cases, both coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. 1 domestic confirmed & 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. 1 site each at Wenzhou & 1 at Ningbo are currently at High Risk. 1 site each at Wenzhou, Hangzhou & Ningbo are currently at Medium Risk.
Fujian Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Lianjiang in Fuzhou) case, a traced close contact of domestic positive cases elsewhere & under centralized quarantine. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 85 active domestic confirmed & 14 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. 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. 4 sites at Quanzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Guixi in Yingtan) & 25 new domestic asymptomatic (23 at Guixi in Yingtan & 2 at Anyi County in Nanchang) cases. The cases at Nanchang came from out of province on 8/20 & tested positive during community screening. 8 domestic confirmed & 44 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed (all at Yingtan) & 139 active domestic asymptomatic (109 at Yingtan, 14 at Yichun, 6 at Shangrao, 4 each at Fuzhou & Nanchang, & 1 each at Ji’an & Jiujiang) cases in the province. 29 sites at Yingtan are currently at High Risk. 53 sites at Yingtan, 7 at Fuzhou, & 3 at Shangrao are currently at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 15 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic, 10 at Chengdu, 3 at Nanchong, & 2 at Ngawa Prefecture) & 23 new domestic asymptomatic (9 at Nanchong, 7 at Chengdu, 3 at Ziyang, 2 at Luzhou, & 1 each at Dazhou & Guangyuan) cases. 2 of the cases at Chengdu were previously asymptomatic, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine, 9 coming from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival or tested positive upon arrival, & 5 quarantine hotel worker living in “closed loops”. 8 of the cases at Nanchong are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 4 via screening of residents under movement control. 1 of the cases at Ngawa Prefecture was previously asymptomatic, & the other came from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival. The cases at Ziyang, Luzhou, Dazhou & Guangyuan came from out of province & under centralized quarantine since arrival. 3 domestic confirmed & 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. 14 sites at Nanchong are currently at High Risk. 18 sites at Nanchong, 4 at Ngawa Prefecture, & 5 at Chengdu are currently at Medium Risk.
Chongqing Municipality reported 27 new domestic confirmed (20 at Shapingba District, 4 at Jiulongpo District, 2 at Changshou District, & 1 at Kaizhou District) & 16 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Shapingba District, 2 each at Jiulongpo, Dadukou & Changshou Districts, & 1 each at Ba’nan & Beipei Districts) cases, 30 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 12 via screening of residents in Medium/High Risk Areas, & 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 99 active domestic confirmed & 88 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 27 sites are currently at High Risk, & 29 at Medium Risk.
Guizhou Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Qixingguan District in Bijie) cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed (3 at Qiannan Prefecture, 2 at Zunyi, & 1 at & Tongren) & 8 active domestic asymptomatic (4 at Bijie, 3 at Qiannan Prefecture, & 1 at Zunyi) cases in the city. 1 site at Qiannan Prefecture is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Qinghai Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 114 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 23 active domestic confirmed & 502 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple outbreaks at the same time.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 31 new domestic confirmed & 521 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 17 domestic confirmed & 43 asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 328 active domestic confirmed & 4,555 active domestic asymptomatic cases. The region is not breaking the counts of active domestic positive cases by administrative region.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (location not specified) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Kunming) cases, 2 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, & a person coming from out of province & tested positive during at home. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 12 active domestic confirmed & 23 active domestic asymptomatic cases there. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple outbreaks at the same time. 1 site Kunming is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 8/24, Mainland China reported 45 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 80 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 712 confirmed cases recovered (73 imported), 1,206 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (85 imported) & 137 were reclassified as confirmed cases (4 imported), & 29,252 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 7,764 active confirmed cases in the country (632 imported), 40 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 22,172 active asymptomatic cases (702 imported), 0 suspect cases. 201,575 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 8/24, 3,430.949M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 325K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 8/24, Hong Kong added 8,579 new positive cases, 297 imported & 8,282 domestic (2,960 via RT-PCR & 5,322 from rapid antigen tests), 9 new deaths (70 – 108 y.o., 5 un-boosted).
On 8/24, Taiwan added 27,275 new positive cases, 308 imported & 26,967 domestic (including 100 moderate or serious). There were 37 new deaths (ages ranging from 30+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., 34 w/ underlying conditions, 11 fully vaccinated & boosted).