The Biden administration is extending the #Covid public health emergency thru Jan. 11 as officials brace for a winter spike in cases. Covid has faded from people's minds. Deaths & infections are down &people—many maskless—have returned to pre-pandemic life https://t.co/YqnJ4vxYqr
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) October 15, 2022
I’ll admit: I was dubious about early reports of OMG SCARY VARIANTS from the usual suspects, but now the reporting includes people whose opinions I trust…
… The latest data from the CDC showed that BQ.1.1 and BQ.1 each accounted for 5.7% of sequenced cases in the U.S. (up from less than 1% in mid-September), while BF.7 was responsible for 5.3%.
In an interview with CBS News, Anthony Fauci, MD, chief medical adviser to President Biden, said, “When you get variants like that, you look at what their rate of increase is as a relative proportion of the variants, and this has a pretty troublesome doubling time.”
New COVID cases in the U.S. continue on a downward trend, with a 7-day moving average of 37,808, according to the latest CDC data. And deaths are also trending down, with a 7-day moving average of 332.
However, in the U.K. — which has served as a harbinger for what’s to come in the U.S. throughout the pandemic — new infections have begun to swing upward.
The uptick overseas comes as some medical professionals in the U.K. have taken to social media to express concern over a potential new increase in COVID-related blood clots as a result of new variants.
Though experts in the U.S. told MedPage Today that they have not yet observed such a trend stateside, they acknowledged that the impact of new variants, such as BQ.1.1, as well as the ongoing risk of blood clotting during and after COVID infection, are both areas to keep a close eye on…
In his interview with CBS News, Fauci acknowledged that likelihood. “The bad news is that there’s a new variant that’s emerging and that has qualities or characteristics that could evade some of the interventions we have.”
“But,” Fauci further told the outlet, “the somewhat encouraging news is that it’s a BA.5 sublineage, so there are almost certainly going to be some cross-protection that you can boost up.”
Speaking of changing one’s mind as the data updates:
… The week before last — the week ending Oct. 8 — was the first week of the 2022-2023 flu reporting season. The CDC posted its first update for the new season on Friday, Oct. 14. The percentage of flu tests that were positive has been ticking up for the past few weeks. Is the CDC detecting signs that we might see an early start to the flu season?
I think we are. Nationally, flu positivity in the clinical labs last week was 3.3%, but it was over 10% in the Southeast. And in the South Central region, it was 5%. Flu hospitalizations are going up. And they’re going up in the same places where flu positivity is going up and ILIs [influenza-like illnesses] are going up.
All the pieces are sort of falling into place, and you’re getting sort of a consistent picture in the Southeast and maybe in South Central, and it’s probably spreading out.
So things are starting to bubble. I’ve been waiting to get my flu shot till it seemed like transmission was picking up. Maybe I should start thinking about booking it?
I went and got mine last week. And I usually wait a little bit later. But living here in the Southeast, I thought it was time…
… Former CDC director Robert Redfield, former top deputy Anne Schuchat and others described how the Trump White House and its allies repeatedly “bullied” staff, tried to rewrite their publications and threatened their jobs in an attempt to align the CDC with the more optimistic view of the pandemic espoused by Donald Trump, the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis concluded in a report released Monday.
Several public health officials detailed a months-long campaign against Schuchat sparked by Trump appointees’ belief that her grim assessments of the pandemic reflected poorly on the president, leading Schuchat, a 32-year CDC veteran, to openly wonder if she would be fired in the summer of 2020, her colleagues told the panel.
The panel’s latest report also offers new insight into key flash points, such as a CDC-backed plan to require masks on public and commercial transportation in the summer of 2020, with Martin Cetron, director of the agency’s division of global migration and quarantine, citing evidence that the requirement would reduce covid risks to travelers.
Redfield and other officials told the panel that they believed they might be fired if they angered the White House, hindering the CDC’s ability to fight the virus…
Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), who chairs the panel, said that the report demonstrates how the Trump White House engaged in a concerted effort “to downplay the seriousness” of the pandemic.
“This prioritization of politics, contempt for science, and refusal to follow the advice of public health experts harmed the nation’s ability to respond effectively to the coronavirus crisis and put Americans at risk,” Clyburn said in a statement.
Clyburn’s panel has spent more than two years investigating the Trump administration’s pandemic response, issuing reports that detailed White House pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to authorize unproven coronavirus treatments, such as the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, and its efforts to overrule public health officials on coronavirus guidance for churches; and exploring how its focus on challenging the 2020 election outcome distracted from the virus response, among other findings…
The report also details how Trump appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services worked to wrest control of the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs), which offer public updates on scientists’ findings and had been considered off-limits to political appointees for decades…
Life expectancy changes during the Covid pandemic among 29 countries: the US among the most pronounced reduction. Several countries had bounce back improvement in 2021 (black arrows below). Vaccination uptake was correlated w/ less deficithttps://t.co/DIxN3ZrvsK @NatureHumBehav pic.twitter.com/GE2VJMjP84
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 17, 2022
"Countries with a higher share of vaccinated individuals suffered the least life expectancy deficit."
and to note bounce back of USA for age 80+ in 2021https://t.co/EM2Fq0hciJ
Summary of the paper@jschoeley @jm_aburto @ridhikash07 @OxfordDemSci pic.twitter.com/gHSvgiTj90— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 17, 2022
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The government's suppression of truth, how Dr. Wenliang was treated even before he got Covid, and important discrepancies are noted pic.twitter.com/q6uu7RioQ1
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 15, 2022
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India reports 1,542 fresh #Covid19 cases, 1,919 recoveries and 8 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Read all #coronavirus news and updates: https://t.co/2s7YKMvnel pic.twitter.com/9n7oZeLYo4
— BQ Prime (@bqprime) October 18, 2022
Thread from an Australian data analyst:
Here's the latest variant picture for Australia:
Lineages with 5+ "Key RBD mutations" continue to grow in frequency, up to 15% of recent samples.
This method includes lineages BQ.1.* and BM.1.* from the "great convergence", as well as those with more mutations.
🧵 pic.twitter.com/HTwaMtxEWw— Mike Honey (@Mike_Honey_) October 14, 2022
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Special props to @ErinMPrater at @FortuneMagazine who is doing a fantastic job communicating about variants. This is not an easy thing to explain but she's rocking it.https://t.co/NDpd61tcPt
— T. Ryan Gregory (@TRyanGregory) October 15, 2022
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"There are now 95 nasal vaccines under development around the world…. 6 have reached the final Phase 3 in clinical trials." None of those late trials are in the US. India and China already have approved nasal/inhaled vaccineshttps://t.co/mVwaXZ9vne @carmenpaun @adamcancryn pic.twitter.com/ix6zZYqun7
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 15, 2022
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In case you saw some forwarded version of the NYPost’s scaremongering:
… There is no evidence the work, performed under biosecurity level 3 precautions in BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, was conducted improperly or unsafely. In fact, it was approved by an internal biosafety review committee and Boston’s Public Health Commission, the university said Monday night.
But it has become apparent that the research team did not clear the work with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which was one of the funders of the project. The agency indicated it is going to be looking for some answers as to why it first learned of the work through media reports…
The research has been posted online as a preprint, meaning it has not yet been peer-reviewed. The senior author is Mohsan Saeed, from BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. STAT reached out to Saeed on Monday but had not received a response by the time this article was published.
In emailed comments, the university later disputed the claims made by some media outlets that the work had created a more dangerous virus.
The email, from Rachel Lapal Cavallario, associate vice president for public relations and social media, said that the work was not, as claimed, gain of function research, a term that refers to manipulation of pathogens to make them more dangerous. “In fact, this research made the virus [replication] less dangerous,” the email stated, adding that other research groups have conducted similar work…
The goal of the research was to determine if the mutations in the Omicron spike protein were responsible for this variant’s increased ability to evade the immunity to SARS-2 that humans have built up, and whether the changes led to Omicron’s lower rate of severity.
The testing actually showed, though, that the chimeric virus was more lethal to a type of lab mice than Omicron itself, killing 80% of the mice infected. Importantly, the original Wuhan strain killed 100% of mice it was tested in.
The conclusion of the study is that mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron variant are responsible for the strain’s ability to evade immunity people have built up via vaccination, infections, or both, but they are not responsible for the apparent decrease in severity of the Omicron viruses…
The fatality rate seen in this strain of mice when they were infected with these viruses raises questions about how good a model they are for what happens when people are infected with SARS-2. The Wuhan strain killed less than 1% of people who were infected.
Virologist Angela Rasmussen, who was not involved in the research, had some sympathy for the BU scientists, saying there is ambiguity in the rules as they are currently written.
“I’d personally reach out for clarification from NIAID when in doubt, but it’s often not obvious when additional guidance is warranted. And because it’s not very transparent, it’s hard to look at other decisions NIAID has made for examples,” she said.
“I’m very tired of people suggesting that virologists and NIAID are reckless or don’t care about biosafety,” said Rasmussen, a coronavirus expert at the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization. “The problem isn’t that. The problem is that the guidelines and expectations aren’t clear for many experiments and the process isn’t transparent.”
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Thread, with speculations:
Something interesting is happening in New York. Cases have been flat over the past month, however hospitalizations are jumping significantly. New York has the highest BQ.1* proportions in the country, estimated at 25% of cases today by CovSpectrum pic.twitter.com/wNCgrz2CWx
— JWeiland (@JPWeiland) October 16, 2022
.@_DCHealth and @MayorBowser @MurielBowser have an excellent system in place. It is easy to walk in, get your COVID booster, your flu shot and get tested. And they have free rapid antigen tests & KN95 masks to take home with you.
Refreshing to see strong leadership in action. https://t.co/Y7alKMFDLz
— Rick Bright (@RickABright) October 17, 2022
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(Data from the Financial Times, not exactly known as a bastien of ‘wokeness’)
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The states with the highest rates of long Covid, meanwhile, are all red states no one thinks are home to a bunch of neurotics: West Va, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Idaho, Mississippi, and Alabama. What do these states have in common: very high cumulative Covid case rates.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 15, 2022
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NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
136 new cases on 10/14/22.
148 new cases on 10/15/22.
105 new cases on 10/16/22.
73 new cases on 10/17/22.
Deaths now at 2037, up 8 from last week. We seem to lose about 8 people every week now.
Matt McIrvin
That pattern of hospitalizations going up while cases are more or less flat is also happening in Massachusetts. But I suspect it’s the result of spotty testing more than increased severity, because the wastewater counts are going up along with the hospitalizations.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 1,210 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,868,402 cases. It also reported six deaths, for an adjusted cumulative total of 36,423 deaths – 0.75% of the cumulative reported total, 0.75% of resolved cases.
17,734 Covid-19 tests were conducted yesterday, with a positivity rate of 6.6%.
There were 23,070 active cases yesterday, 822 fewer than the day before. 1,025 were in hospital. 43 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 19 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 2,026 more patients recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,808,909 patients recovered – 98.8% of the cumulative reported total.
1,209 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. One new case was imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 907 doses of vaccine on 17th October: 77 first doses, 99 second doses, 391 first booster doses, and 340 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 72,380,604 doses administered: 28,106,255 first doses, 27,515,382 second doses, 16,245,298 first booster doses, and 513,669 second booster doses. 86.1% of the population have received their first dose, 84.3% their second dose, 49.7% their first booster dose, and 1.6% their second booster dose.
New Deal democrat
No update from Biobot in the past few days. After making a 6 month low of 35,700 over the weekend, confirmed cases have ticked up to 38,100. Similarly, hospital admissions also made a 6 month low of 23,500 over the weekend, but have ticked up 100 to 23,600. Deaths did the same, making a 3.5 month low of 345 before increasing to 379. Only during 3.5-4 months during the entire pandemic have cases, hospitalizations, and deaths been lower.
Unfortunately, most States are now updating their information only weekly, which besides delays – meaning we will lose a week in detecting new waves – makes it hard to distinguish data dumps from true increases. But the following did show significant increases compared with one week ago: NY, NH, IL, IA, NM, MO, DE, MD, DC, KY, WV, OK, and TN, as well as PR.
Based on BIobot’s most recent update, I suspect a new wave has started in the northern tier of States as the weather cools. But whether it is a small seasonal upturn or a larger wave is completely unknowable at this point. One bit of good news is that the recent wave in Central Europe appears to have already peaked one week ago.
rikyrah
Get that booster👏🏾
Ken
Neurotic (adj): subject to mental, emotional, or physical reactions that are drastic and irrational
Seems about right to me….
Surowiecki may be using “neurotic” for “hypochondriac”.
Baud
Do we have demographics on who’s being hospitalized?
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@rikyrah: Locked that in last week. Still need a flu shot.
Spanky
@BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️: Yeah, I got the covid booster but held off on the flu shot until later. Looks like “later” is getting sooner.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@Spanky: The staff at the VA “encouraged” me not to get them both at the same time. Booster knocked me on my butt for a few days, so right call I guess.
oatler
A friend told me his doctor thinks the big one will hit us later this year, citing recent Covid cases in Europe. Beautiful summer, now back to the stress. I had a booster scheduled in the Spring and blithely brushed it off because we were in the tail-end of this deal…
New Deal democrat
Good thread by Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor U. In Texas about the near term future course of Covid:
https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1581616475097661442
Lots of uncertainty about what happen with the new alphabet soup of variants. But one really good chart showing the lineage of all the new variants. All of them he calls “grandchildren” of BA.2. BF.7 and BQ.1.1 are direct “children” of BA.5
E.T.A.: Contra the link in the post, 91-Divoc suggests cases in Singapore are peaking right now, at levels slightly less than their summer wave.
kalakal
Got a booster and a flu shot yesterday.
Feel a bit rough today, nothing terrible, achey, mild headache etc. General feeling of fuzziness, expect a good days rest will deal with it
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: I think the point is that they’re not places with a stereotype of people obsessing about COVID and having psychosomatic symptoms.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: That Daily Beast article he links to is the kind of thing that infuriates me–the content of the article is fine but does not support the screaming headline.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Right wing media is not the only media that’s busy manipulating people.
Matt McIrvin
@oatler: I’m thinking COVID winter waves will be a permanent fixture of our lives from now on, and seasonal boosters given once or twice a year, and revised periodically, will be a necessity similar to flu shots. The impact will probably always be larger than seasonal flu but we can do things to keep it down.
Scout211
Governor Newsom announced that the California state of emergency for COVID-19 will end on February 28th. That seems a little more reasonable than January 11th. Maybe the Biden administration will extend the date if cases are up? After the mid-term election, maybe?
We got our super-sized (for the olds) flu shot last week and I paired mine with my DTaP booster. Our COVID boosters were 3 weeks ago. So we are (hopefully) set for the winter. Fingers crossed.
geg6
@rikyrah:
Got it mid-September. Got the flu shot last week. I’m as prepared as I can be. Too few of my co-workers took advantage of the free flu vax clinic we had. But then, we have people who only recently got their first COVID vax.
Baud
Why is Anne Laurie trying to force me to be productive today?
Paul in KY
Got my Bivalent booster & flu one the other day. One in each arm. Was 1st time getting the Pfizer one, as I’d been Moderna all the way. Only some soreness in arm that got the Covid shot
Got them at VA and no one said to wait on one or the other. This is KY….
Matt McIrvin
@geg6: With a bit of luck we end up with very few people who are entirely unvaccinated because the COVID vax will end up as an ordinary part of the pediatric vaccination schedule. That will mean you need to have hardcore antivaxxer parents to never get it at all.
But that could take a while–certainly it already is administered this way in Blue America but there are places where the pediatricians are COVID antivaxxers. I think that will fade, though, as this becomes less the burning partisan issue.
And it doesn’t address the problem of how to get vaxxed people to get periodic boosters.
jonas
@Baud:
According to the NYT Covid dashboard, it’s about 10 to 1 people over 70. I’ve read elsewhere that among that group, they’re overwhelmingly unvaccinated, or at least undervaccinated (maybe first two shots, but no boosters, etc.).
Baud
@jonas:
Thank you.
gvg
I got my bivalent saturday. Switched back to pfizer. I had been Pfizer/Moderna and couldn’t decide which way to go this time so I went with whatever was easiest locally. Sleepy saturday.
Put off flu because of reports of people being tired after both. Will get it this weekend probably. I waited on that because I didn’t want it too early. Was kind of holding off on the covid for the same thing. Here in the south we tend to get the waves later than the north sort of. Doctors appointment tomorrow anyway so I shall ask if anything else I should do. I am almost the only one still masking at work or most places. Oddly, the grocery store still has a lot of masks when I venture in but I mostly do curbside.
Mousebumples
My husband and I are both boosted. He got the Flumist with his booster; my 3 yo and I got our flu shots at my office clinic at the end of September. (first time in the office in over a year!)
The 7 mo got his second flu and covid shots yesterday, so until the <5 covid boosters are approved, we’re a fully vaxxed family.
Elizabelle
@Mousebumples: seven months old already!!
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin: I think unfortunately we are back to the problem of “scariants.”
If you recall, Omicron came in completely from left field, so different from any previous variant that the best hypothesis is that it jumped from an animal reservoir back into humans. But all of these new alphabet soup variants are direct descendants not just of original Omicron, but variant BA.2 (including XBB).
So, while as you say, we will probably have seasonal winter waves more or less forever, so long as the new subvariants are lineal descendants of recent variants, I suspect the waves are more like the BA.2.12.1 and BA.4&5 waves than either the Delta or original Omicron waves.
Matt McIrvin
@jonas: Around here (MA), 65% of the people currently being admitted to hospitals are fully vaccinated.
That statistic looks much worse than it is for two reasons: first, it doesn’t count boosters so it gets more and more irrelevant over time (we should be thinking in terms of “up-to-date on shots” not “fully vaccinated”), and, more importantly, there’s that old base-rate fallacy: almost everyone in the aged cohorts that are getting hospitalized is vaccinated. If 35% of the people who go to the hospital are in the tiny minority of unvaxxed Massachusetts seniors, that implies the vaccines are helping a lot–even before you start looking at boosters.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: Another left-field variant like Omicron is always possible. But even Omicron killed as many as it did because so many of the people who got it were still immunologically naive–no prior COVID infection or vaccination.
Matt McIrvin
The other thing you can see from Massachusetts statistics is that the case rates have shifted to being heavily concentrated among older people, which says to me that there is massive undertesting and undercounting of cases to a degree that wasn’t the case, say, a year ago. The cases that get attention are the more severe ones, and those are mostly among the olds.
If you look at cumulative COVID cases over all time, the cohort with the highest case rate is ages 20-29. Over the past two weeks, they have one of the lower case rates. I do not personally believe that number is accurate–the huge wastewater spike in the college-town region of western Mass. a little while ago happened for a reason.
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/17 Mainland China reported 208 new domestic confirmed (20 previously asymptomatic), 587 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 36 new domestic confirmed & 61 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 46 domestic confirmed & 19 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 480 active domestic confirmed & 283 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both Xingning District in Nanning) & 9 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Xingning District in Nanning, 2 at Liuzhou, & 1 each at Daxin County in Chongzuo, Lingshan County in Qinzhou & Rong County in Yulin) cases. The case at Liuzhou, Qinzhou & Yulin came from out of region. The case at Chongzuo was found via regular screening of residents in border communities. 1 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 50 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region. All areas in the province are now at Low Risk.
At Hainan Province 6 domestic confirmed cases recovered. The province is no longer publishing the count of active domestic positive cases. All areas in the province are now at Low Risk.
Hunan Province reported 16 new domestic confirmed (15 at Shaoyang & 1 at Changsha) & 43 new domestic asymptomatic (32 at Shaoyang, 3 at Hengyang, & 2 each at Changde, Changsha, Huaihua & Yueyang) cases. 36 of the cases at Shaoyang were found via community screening, & 1 came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. The cases at Changsha are traced close contacts of domestic positive cases elsewhere. The cases at Huaihua are traced close contacts under home quarantine. The cases at Yueyang came from Tibet & under centralized quarantine since arrival. 4 domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 61 active domestic confirmed & 176 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 2 sites at Shaoyang & 1 each at Huaihua & Yueyang are currently at High Risk. 10 sites each at Xiangxi Prefecture & Shaoyang, 8 at Huaihua, 6 at Hengyang, 4 each at Changde & Yueyang, & 3 each at Changsha are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed (all at Xiangyang) & 32 new domestic asymptomatic (15 at Xiangyang, 13 at Wuhan, 2 at Suizhou, & 1 each at Jingzhou & Xiaogan) cases. 10 of the cases at Wuhan are persons under centralized quarantine, & 3 via community screening. The cases at Jingzhou, Suizhou, Xiangyang & Xiaogan are persons under centralized quarantine. 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed (5 at Xiangyang & 1 each at Huangshi & Wuhan) & 468 active domestic asymptomatic (162 at Wuhan, 77 at Xiantao, 71 at Jingzhou, 40 at Jingmen, 28 at Huanggang, 25 at Xiangyang, 19 at Suizhou, 12 at Shiyan, 11 at Enshi Prefecture, 10 at Yichang, 4 each at Ezhou & Xiaogan, 2 each at Huangshi & Tianmen, & 1 at Qianjiang) cases in the province.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 17 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic) & 33 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 85 domestic confirmed & 749 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 469 active domestic confirmed & 2,768 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Gansu Province reported 11 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Lanzhou & 3 at Zhengning County in Qingyang) cases. 15 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 288 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 5 sites at Lanzhou are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Shanxi Province reported 46 new domestic confirmed (5 previously asymptomatic) & 31 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 11 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 354 active domestic confirmed & 352 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shaanxi Province reported 9 domestic confirmed (3 each at Xi’an & Weinan, 2 at Hanzhong, & 1 at Yan’an) & 27 new domestic asymptomatic (14 at Xi’an, 5 at Weinan, 3 each at Hanzhong & Shangluo, & 2 at Xianyang) cases, 24 persons under centralized quarantine, 2 via regular screening of persons in “closed loops”, 3 via screening of residents in Medium/High Risk areas, 2 came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival, & 5 via community screening (3 at Xi’an & 2 at Weinan). 8 domestic confirmed & 24 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 105 active domestic confirmed & 327 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 30 sites at Xi’an, 16 at Weinan, 9 at Hanzhong, 5 each at Xianyang & Yulin, & 3 at Shangluo at are currently at High Risk. 44 sites at Xi’an, 23 at Weinan, 20 at Hanzhong, 11 at Xianyang, 4 at Baoji, 3 at Shangluo, & 2 at Yulin are currently at Medium Risk.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all previous asymptomatic, all at Yinchuan) & 5 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Yinchuan & 1 each at Pingluo County in Shizuishan & Haiyuan County in Zhongwei) cases, 2 from out of region. 4 domestic confirmed & 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 292 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 101 sites at Yinchuan, 26 at Zhongwei, 9 at Wuzhong, 2 at Ningdong, & 1 at Guyuan are currently at High Risk. 53 sites at Yinchuan, 38 at Zhongwei, 16 at Wuzhong, & 2 at Ningdong are currently at Medium Risk.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 8 new domestic confirmed & 133 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 26 domestic confirmed & 54 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 356 active domestic confirmed & 3,428 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Linyi) & 9 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Linyi, 2 each at Tai’an & Weifang, & 1 each at Dezhou & Zaozhuang) cases, 6 persons under home/centralized quarantine, & 4 coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. 4 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 17 active domestic confirmed & 163 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 18 sites at Tai’an, 4 at Heze, 3 at Linyi, & 1 at Zibo are currently at High Risk. 8 sites at Heze, 5 at Tai’an, 3 at Linyi, & 1 each at Jinan, Jining & Zibo are currently at High Risk.
Hebei Province reported 13 new domestic asymptomatic (9 at Haigang District in Qinhuangdao, 2 at Wanquan District in Zhangjiakou, & 1 each at Baigou New Town in Baoding & Yuhua District in Shijiazhuang) cases, 11 persons under centralized quarantine & 2 coming from out of province. 1 domestic confirmed & 16 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed & 133 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 12 at Zhangjiakou, 5 at Qinhuangdao, 4 each at Baoding & Handan, & 1 at Hengshui are currently at High Risk. 34 sites at Zhangjiakou, 9 at Baoding, 7 at Qinhuangdao, 3 at Handan, & 1 at Hengshui are currently at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed (all at Zhengzhou) & 7 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Puyang & 2 at Zhengzhou, & a person transferred from out of province to unspecified location) cases, 8 persons under centralized quarantine, 2 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (both at Zhengzhou), & 3 via community screening (all at Puyang). 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 99 active domestic confirmed & 325 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 17 sites at Zhengzhou & 6 at Pingdingshan are currently at High Risk. 40 sites at Zhengzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Liaoning Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (2 at Panjin & 1 at Fushun) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Fushun & 1 at Panjin) cases. The cases at Fushun are persons under centralized quarantine. 1 of the cases at Panjin was found via community screening, & the other 2 are traced close contacts. 7 domestic confirmed & 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 103 active domestic confirmed & 94 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 16 sites at Fushun, 13 at Chaoyang, 10 at Huludao, 6 at Anshan, & 1 at Shenyang are currently at High Risk. 23 sites at Fushun, 13 at Chaoyang, 10 at Anshan, 9 at Huludao, & 4 at Shenyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Dongchang District in Tonghua & 1 at Changchun) case, all persons under centralized quarantine. 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 133 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 site each at Changchun & Tonghua are currently at High Risk. 3 at Changchun & 1 at Tonghua are currently at Medium Risk.
Heilongjiang Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (all at Xiangfang District in Harbin) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic (2 each at Aihui District in Heihe & Zhaodong in Suihua) cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 65 active domestic confirmed (61 at Harbin, 3 at Suihua, & 1 at Jiamusi) & 161 active domestic asymptomatic (83 at Suihua, 58 at Heihe, 15 at Harbin, 2 each at Daqing & Qitaihe, & 1 at Hegang) cases in the province. 21 sites at Suihua & 1 at Heihe are currently at High Risk. 14 sites at Suihua, 9 at Heihe, & 1 at Qiqihar are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 14 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic, 4 at Chaoyang District, 2 each at Dongcheng & Haidian Districts, & 1 each at Fengtai & Xicheng Districts & Econ. Dev. Zone) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Haidian District) cases, 12 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine & 3 via community screening (2 at Chaoyang District & 1 at Xicheng District). 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 11 sites are currently at High Risk, & 11 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all persons under centralized quarantine or movement control. 7 domestic confirmed & 54 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 23 sites are currently at High Risk, & 17 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 14 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed case in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 65 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 6 new domestic asymptomatic (2 each at Bozhou, Hefei & Wuhu) cases, 3 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 2 from out of province (both at Wuhu), & 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (at Bozhou). 18 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 226 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 site at Fuyang is currently at High Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 11 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic, 9 at Nanjing & 2 at Wuxi) & 19 new domestic asymptomatic (6 at Xuzhou, 5 at Taizhou, 4 at Nanjing, & 2 each at Nantong & Suzhou) cases, 22 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine, 5 vis screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (3 at Nanjing & 2 at Taizhou), & 1 via community screening (at Xuzhou). 3 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 78 active domestic confirmed & 245 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 47 sites at Taizhou, 9 at Nantong & 4 at Lianyungang are currently at High Risk. 21 sites at Nanjing, 9 each at Taizhou & Xuzhou, 7 each at Nantong, 3 at Wuxi, & 1 at Suzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Zhejiang Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 7 at Ningbo & 1 at Taizhou) & 27 new domestic asymptomatic (25 at Ningbo & 1 each at Jiaxing & Taizhou) cases, 23 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under home/centralized quarantine, & 11 via community screening (all at Ningbo). 1 domestic confirmed & 15 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
At Fujian Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 22 active domestic confirmed & 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Jiangxi Province there currently are 8 active domestic asymptomatic (4 at Nanchang, 2 at Yichun, & 1 each at Ganzhou & Ji’an) cases in the province.
Sichuan Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 38 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 42 domestic confirmed & 51 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
Chongqing Municipality reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 each at Ba’nan & Yubei Districts) & 8 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Jiangjin District & 1 at Yubei Districts) cases, 15 persons under centralized quarantine or movement control, & 5 via community screening (4 at Jiangjin District & 1 at Ba’nan District). 6 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 155 active domestic confirmed & 192 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 12 sites are currently at High Risk, & 45 at Medium Risk.
Guizhou Province reported 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 10 domestic confirmed & 44 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 88 active domestic confirmed & 289 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Qinghai Province the last domestic asymptomatic case recovered.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Chengguan District in Lhasa) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic (5 at Chengguan District in Lhasa & 1 at Nyingchi) cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. 17 asymptomatic cases recovered. The region is no longer publishing the count of active domestic positive cases. 6 sites at Lhasa are currently at Medium Risk.
Yunnan Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed (3 at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, 2 at Zhenxiong County in Zhaotong, & 1 at Hekou County in Honghe Prefecture) & 27 new domestic asymptomatic (22 at Dehong Prefecture & 5 at Menghai County in Sipsongpanna Prefecture) cases. 12 domestic confirmed & 29 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 154 active domestic confirmed & 502 active domestic asymptomatic cases there. 43 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 5 at Sipsongpanna Prefecture, 4 at Honghe Prefecture, & 1 at Yuxi are currently at High Risk. 43 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 23 at Sipsongpanna Prefectures, 9 at Honghe Prefecture, & 7 at Yuxi are currently at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 10/17, Mainland China reported 42 new imported confirmed cases (7 previously asymptomatic), 114 imported asymptomatic cases, & 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 300 confirmed cases recovered (61 imported), 612 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (116 imported) & 27 were reclassified as confirmed cases (7 imported), & 51,082 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 4,413 active confirmed cases in the country (636 imported), 15 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 15,683 active asymptomatic cases (933 imported), 0 suspect cases. 463,959 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/17, 3,438.378M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 101K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 10/17, Hong Kong reported 4,954 new positive cases, 388 imported & 4,566 domestic, & 7 new deaths.
On 10/17, Taiwan added 44,884 new positive cases, 38 imported & 44,846 domestic (including 102 moderate or serious). There were 33 new deaths (ages ranging from 60+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., 9 fully vaccinated & boosted).
Scout211
@Scout211: correction: tdap not dtap booster. 🙄
No pedants here to correct my typo? I depend on you pedants for this! 🤣
YY_Sima Qian
Wife was informed on Sunday that she had crossed paths w/ a positive case last Thursday, at a hospital she visited at the time (the case probably had tested positive on Saturday or Sunday). As such, she has been required to home quarantine for 3 days. Interestingly, her home quarantine is not supervised: no magnetic sensors on the door, and I did not have to home quarantine with her even though we lived together. I was told to avoid public transportation and crowded locations. Medical workers come to our door twice in the three days to test her individually (no batching). Otherwise, it is almost based on an honor system.
This is far cry from the home quarantine I had to do last summer, following my 2 weeks of centralized quarantine, after I returned from a business trip to Shenzhen. They placed a magnetic sensor on my door, and I had to home quarantine alone, or my family would have to quarantine w/ me for the duration. Remember this is because I had stayed in the same city district as a couple of Delta cases at the airport, a district larger than all but a handful of American cities in area & population.
Clearly, Chinese pandemic response policies were drastic overkills for the transmissivity of the wild type, Alpha & Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2, though highly effective in containment/suppression/elimination. Now, in face of the much more transmissive Omicron variants, pandemic response policies have actually been loosened. Whatever is the official rhetoric about “Dynamic Zero COVID”, the currently policies accept a degree of risk of cases spreading to other parts of the country that may seed new clusters, as well as a rebound in cases when restrictions are loosened. There is no going back to “Zero” in China, even if each local outbreak may still be contained & suppressed, elimination is no longer guaranteed & no longer appear to be the overriding objective. In reality, it appears to me that China is aiming for something akin to South Korea’s suppression strategy for the 1st 2 years of the pandemic. Of course, suppression Omicron requires much greater restrictions than those employed by South Korea to suppression Alpha.
Winter will be… interesting.
Bill Arnold
Reminder; India’s reported COVID-19 case numbers are not aligned with reality, though trends might be useful information if the numbers are collected with an unchanging methodology and are not altered for political reasons.
(Whether they are lies is a political question, or rather a set of them, state and national. But at this point, there are enough peer-reviewed papers about India’s COVID-19 statistics with solid methodology that an honest argument for the accuracy of the statistics cannot made.)
Mousebumples
@Elizabelle: I know! Hard to believe he’s so big already! 😭
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/18 Mainland China reported 204 new domestic confirmed (14 previously asymptomatic), 630 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 50 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 48 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 43 domestic confirmed & 17 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 487 active domestic confirmed & 313 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Xingning District in Nanning) & 18 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Xingning District in Nanning, 6 at Benxi in Wuzhou, & 5 at Yulin) cases. The case at Wuzhou & Yulin are traced close contacts of domestic positive cases from elsewhere. The case at Chongzuo was found via regular screening of residents in border communities. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed & 67 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Hunan Province reported 7 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 3 at Shaoyang & 1 each at Hengyang, Huaihua, Yongzhou & Yueyang) & 42 new domestic asymptomatic (23 at Shaoyang, 10 at Huaihua, 6 at Hengyang, & 1 each at Changde, Changsha, & Yueyang) cases. The cases at Huaihua are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The cases at Changsha & Yongzhou came from out of province & tested positive upon arrival. The cases at Changde & Yueyang were found via community screening. 2 domestic confirmed & 13 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 66 active domestic confirmed & 204 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 2 sites each at Hengyang & Shaoyang, & 1 each at Huaihua & Yueyang are currently at High Risk. 10 sites each at Xiangxi Prefecture, 8 each at Hengyang & Huaihua, 6 at Shaoyang, & 4 each at Changde & Yueyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 39 new domestic asymptomatic (18 at Xiangyang, 16 at Wuhan, 3 at Jingmen, & 2 at Suizhou) cases. 16 of the cases at Xiangyang are persons under centralized quarantine, & 2 via community screening. 11 of the cases at Wuhan are persons under centralized quarantine, 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure, & 4 via community screening. The cases at Jingmen & Suizhou are persons under centralized quarantine. 26 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed (5 at Xiangyang & 1 each at Huangshi & Wuhan) & 481 active domestic asymptomatic (170 at Wuhan, 73 at Xiantao, 64 at Jingzhou, 43 at Jingmen, 42 at Xiangyang, 27 at Huanggang, 20 at Suizhou, 11 at Enshi Prefecture & Shiyan, 10 at Yichang, 3 at Xiaogan, 2 each at Ezhou, Huangshi & Tianmen, & 1 at Qianjiang) cases in the province.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 24 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic) & 52 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 39 domestic confirmed & 283 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 454 active domestic confirmed & 2,533 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Gansu Province reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Chengguan District in Lanzhou) cases, both persons under centralized quarantine. 36 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 254 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 5 sites at Lanzhou are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Shanxi Province reported 22 new domestic confirmed & 23 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 11 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 365 active domestic confirmed & 367 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shaanxi Province reported 20 domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 14 at Hanzhong & 3 each at Xi’an & Weinan) & 40 new domestic asymptomatic (19 at Xi’an, 16 at Weinan, 2 each at Weinan & Xianyang, & 1 at Shangluo) cases, 42 persons under centralized quarantine, 6 via screening of residents in Medium/High Risk areas, 3 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (all at Hanzhong), & 6 via community screening (4 at Xi’an & 1 at Xianyang), 2 via voluntary screening (both at Xi’an), & 1 at a fever clinic (at Xi’an). 1 domestic confirmed & 14 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 124 active domestic confirmed & 352 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 30 sites at Xi’an, 19 at Hanzhong, 16 at Weinan, 5 each at Xianyang & Yulin, & 3 at Shangluo at are currently at High Risk. 44 sites at Xi’an, 23 at Weinan, 22 at Hanzhong, 11 at Xianyang, 4 at Baoji, 3 at Shangluo, & 2 at Yulin are currently at Medium Risk.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 7 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Yinchuan) cases. 5 domestic confirmed & 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 281 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 90 sites at Yinchuan, 26 at Zhongwei, 10 at Wuzhong, 2 at Ningdong, & 1 at Guyuan are currently at High Risk. 60 sites at Yinchuan, 33 at Zhongwei, 16 at Wuzhong, & 2 at Ningdong are currently at Medium Risk.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 6 new domestic confirmed & 116 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 24 domestic confirmed & 118 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 338 active domestic confirmed & 3,426 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Shandong Province reported 12 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Liaocheng, 2 each at Linyi, Tai’an & Weifang, & 1 each at Dezhou, Heze & Qingdao) cases, 9 persons under centralized quarantine, 2 coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival, & 1 via community screening (at Liaocheng). 2 domestic confirmed & 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed & 165 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 12 sites at Tai’an, 4 at Heze, 3 each at Linyi & Rizhao, & 1 at Zibo are currently at High Risk. 8 sites at Heze, 3 each at Linyi & Tai’an, 2 each at Jining & Rizhao, & 1 each at Jinan & Zibo are currently at High Risk.
Hebei Province reported 8 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Zhangjiakou, 2 each at Langfang & Rongcheng County in Xiong’an, & 1 at Yuhua District in Shijiazhuang) cases, 6 persons under centralized quarantine & 2 coming from out of province. 1 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 domestic confirmed & 135 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 10 at Zhangjiakou, 4 each at Baoding & Handan, 2 at Qinhuangdao, & 1 at Hengshui are currently at High Risk. 26 sites at Zhangjiakou, 9 at Baoding, 8 at Qinhuangdao, 3 at Handan, & 1 at Hengshui are currently at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed (9 at Zhengzhou & 1 at Hebi) & 21 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Zhengzhou, 2 at Puyang & 1 each at Hebi & Luoyang) cases, 20 persons under centralized quarantine, 8 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (6 at Zhengzhou & 2 at Hebi), & 3 via community screening (2 at Puyang & 1 at Luoyang). 4 domestic confirmed & 16 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 106 active domestic confirmed & 330 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 17 sites at Zhengzhou & 6 at Pingdingshan are currently at High Risk. 40 sites at Zhengzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Liaoning Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Fushun) cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. 3 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 100 active domestic confirmed & 94 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 9 sites at Huludao, 8 at Chaoyang, 7 at Fushun, & 4 at Anshan are currently at High Risk. 21 sites at Fushun, 14 at Chaoyang, 9 each at Anshan & Huludao, & 1 at Shenyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (Changchun) case, a persons under centralized quarantine. 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 131 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 site each at Changchun & Tonghua are currently at High Risk. 3 at Changchun & 1 at Tonghua are currently at Medium Risk.
Heilongjiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Xiangfang District in Harbin) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Aihui District in Heihe) cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. 6 domestic confirmed & 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 60 active domestic confirmed (57 at Harbin & 3 at Suihua) & 151 active domestic asymptomatic (80 at Suihua, 58 at Heihe, 9 at Harbin, 2 each at Daqing & Qitaihe) cases in the province. 21 sites at Suihua & 1 at Heihe are currently at High Risk. 14 sites at Suihua, 9 at Heihe, & 1 at Qiqihar are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 34 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 8 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Haidian District) cases, 40 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening (at Chaoyang District). 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 8 sites are currently at High Risk, & 11 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 6 persons under centralized quarantine or movement control, 2 coming from elsewhere & tested positive upon arrival, & 1 via community screening (at Jinghai District). 3 domestic confirmed & 33 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 26 sites are currently at High Risk, & 19 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 14 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 21 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed case in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 50 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Hefei & 1 at Wuhu) cases, a traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 1 from out of province (at Wuhu), & 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (at Hefei). 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 209 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 site at Fuyang is currently at High Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, both at Nanjing) & 22 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Taizhou, 6 at Xuzhou, 4 each at Nanjing & Nantong) cases, 19 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine, 1 via screening of residents under movement control, 1 via regular screening of persons in “closed loops”, & 2 vis screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (both at Nantong), & 1 via community screening (at Xuzhou). 13 domestic confirmed & 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 67 active domestic confirmed & 246 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 47 sites at Taizhou, 12 at Nantong & 4 at Lianyungang are currently at High Risk. 22 sites at Nanjing, 21 at Nantong, 10 at Xuzhou, 9 at Taizhou, & 1 at Suzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Zhejiang Province reported 11 new domestic confirmed (all at Ningbo) & 37 new domestic asymptomatic (35 at Ningbo & 2 at Taizhou) cases, 40 persons under home/centralized quarantine, & 8 via community screening (all at Ningbo). 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
Fujian Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Xiamen) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic (both at Fuzhou) cases, a person under centralized quarantine, 1 via regular screening of persons in “closed loops”, & 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (at Fuzhou). There currently are 23 active domestic confirmed & 8 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
Jiangxi Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic (2 ar Yushui District in Xinyu & 1 at Xiajiang County in Ji’an) cases, 2 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 coming from out of province. 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 9 active domestic asymptomatic (2 each at Ji’an, Nanchang, Xinyu & Yichun, & 1 at Ganzhou) cases in the province.
Sichuan Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 31 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 32 domestic confirmed & 22 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
Chongqing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic) & 25 new domestic asymptomatic (19 at Jiangjin District, 3 at Nan’an District, & 1 each at Ba’nan, Rongchang & Yubei Districts) cases, 24 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine or movement control, & 1 via community screening (at Jiangjin District). 10 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 146 active domestic confirmed & 208 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 12 sites are currently at High Risk, & 45 at Medium Risk.
Guizhou Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 7 domestic confirmed & 43 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 83 active domestic confirmed & 252 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Chengguan District in Lhasa, all persons under centralized quarantine. 2 domestic confirmed & 14 asymptomatic cases recovered. The region is no longer publishing the count of active domestic positive cases. 3 sites at Lhasa are currently at Medium Risk.
Yunnan Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture) & 30 new domestic asymptomatic (26 at Dehong Prefecture & 4 at Menghai County in Sipsongpanna Prefecture) cases. 12 domestic confirmed & 20 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 145 active domestic confirmed & 511 active domestic asymptomatic cases there. 49 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 4 at Honghe Prefecture, & 1 at Sipsongpanna Prefecture are currently at High Risk. 49 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 10 at Sipsongpanna Prefectures, 9 at Honghe Prefecture, & 3 at Yuxi are currently at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 10/18, Mainland China reported 43 new imported confirmed cases (10 previously asymptomatic), 119 imported asymptomatic cases, & 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 348 confirmed cases recovered (44 imported), 728 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (77 imported) & 24 were reclassified as confirmed cases (10 imported), & 57,067 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 4,312 active confirmed cases in the country (635 imported), 14 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 15,680 active asymptomatic cases (965 imported), 0 suspect cases. 468,924 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/18, 3,438.482M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 104K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 10/18, Hong Kong reported 4,954 new positive cases, 388 imported & 4,566 domestic, & 7 new deaths.
On 10/18, Taiwan added 44,628 new positive cases, 27 imported & 44,601 domestic. There were 42 new deaths.
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/19 Mainland China reported 164 new domestic confirmed (20 previously asymptomatic), 643 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 26 new domestic confirmed & 58 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 51 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 462 active domestic confirmed & 362 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at 7 at Xingning District in Nanning) & 18 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Benxi in Wuzhou, 6 at Nanning, & 5 at Yulin) cases, 6 persons under centralized quarantine & 13 came from out of province. 2 domestic confirmed & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 77 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
At Hainan Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered.
Hunan Province reported 7 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 3 at Huaihua, 2 at Shaoyang, & 1 each at Hengyang & Yongzhou) & 39 new domestic asymptomatic (25 at Shaoyang, 5 at Yueyang, 4 at Huaihua, 3 at Changsha, & 1 each at Changde & Yongzhou) cases. 1 domestic confirmed & 4 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 72 active domestic confirmed & 238 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 15 sites at Shaoyang, 5 at Huaihua, 2 at Hengyang, & 1 at Yueyang are currently at High Risk. 12 sites at Huaihua, 9 at Hengyang, 4 at Shaoyang, 3 at Xiangxi Prefecture, 2 at Changde, & 1 at Yueyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 30 new domestic asymptomatic (14 at Wuhan, 9 at Jingmen, & 7 at Xiangyang) cases. 3 of the cases at Xiangyang are persons under centralized quarantine, & 4 via community screening. 11 of the cases at Wuhan are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure, & 3 via community screening. The cases at Jingmen are persons under centralized quarantine or under movement control. 28 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed (5 at Xiangyang & 1 each at Huangshi & Wuhan) & 483 active domestic asymptomatic (180 at Wuhan, 67 at Xiantao, 58 at Jingzhou, 49 at Jingmen, 42 at Xiangyang, 25 at Huanggang, 20 at Suizhou, 10 at Enshi Prefecture, 9 at Shiyan, 8 at Yichang, 3 at, 2 each at Ezhou, Tianmen & Xiaogan, & 1 each at Huangshi & Qianjiang) cases in the province.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 29 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 53 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 26 domestic confirmed & 136 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 457 active domestic confirmed & 2,447 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Gansu Province reported 15 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Lanzhou, 4 at Huan County in Qingyang, & 3 at Liangzhou District in Wuwei) cases. 12 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 257 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 5 sites at Lanzhou are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Shanxi Province reported 12 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 9 domestic confirmed & 27 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 368 active domestic confirmed & 341 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shaanxi Province reported 25 domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic, 17 at Hanzhong, 6 at Xi’an, & 1 each at Weinan & Xianyang) & 50 new domestic asymptomatic (28 at Xi’an, 10 at Hanzhong, 6 at Weinan, 4 at Xianyang, & 2 at Shangluo) cases, 54 persons under centralized quarantine, 11 via screening of residents in Medium/High Risk areas, & 6 via community screening (all at Xi’an). 6 domestic confirmed & 17 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 143 active domestic confirmed & 381 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 59 sites at Xi’an, 33 at Hanzhong, 16 at Weinan, 8 at Xianyang, 5 at Yulin, & 2 at Shangluo are currently at High Risk. 77 sites at Xi’an, 23 at Weinan, 19 at Xianyang, 16 at Hanzhong, 3 at Shangluo, & 2 at Yulin at are currently at Medium Risk.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 6 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Yinchuan & 2 at Wuzhong) cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 11 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 276 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 66 sites at Yinchuan, 20 at Zhongwei, 5 at Wuzhong, 2 at Ningdong, & 1 at Guyuan are currently at High Risk. 76 sites at Yinchuan, 26 at Zhongwei, 13 at Wuzhong, & 2 at Ningdong are currently at Medium Risk.
Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 6 new domestic confirmed & 121 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 21 domestic confirmed & 132 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 323 active domestic confirmed & 3,415 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Shandong Province reported 15 new domestic asymptomatic (4 at Jining, 3 each at Dezhou & Linyi, 2 at Rizhao, & 1 each at Liaocheng, Tai’an & Zaozhuang) cases, 13 persons under centralized quarantine, & 2 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (1 each at Jining & Rizhao). 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 15 active domestic confirmed & 177 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 12 sites at Tai’an, 5 at Linyi, 4 at Jining, 3 at Rizhao, & 2 each at Dezhou & Zaozhuang are currently at High Risk. 6 sites at Linyi, 4 at Heze, 3 at Jining, 2 each at Rizhao, Tai’an & Zaozhuang, & 1 at Zibo are currently at High Risk.
Hebei Province reported 18 new domestic asymptomatic (10 at Anxin County in Xiong’an & 4 each at Qinhuangdao & Xuanhua District in Zhangjiakou) cases. 15 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 1 domestic confirmed & 138 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 15 sites at Zhangjiakou, 4 at Baoding, 3 at Qinhuangdao, 2 at Xiong’an, & 1 at Hengshui are currently at High Risk. 27 at Zhangjiakou, 9 at Baoding, 6 at Qinhuangdao, 4 at Handan, 3 at Xiong’an, & 1 at Hengshui are currently at Medium Risk.
Henan Province reported 7 new domestic confirmed (all at Zhengzhou) & 17 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Zhengzhou, 4 at Puyang, 2 each at Jiaozuo & Luoyang, & 1 each at Nanyang & Shangqiu) cases, 15 persons under centralized quarantine, 6 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (5 at Zhengzhou & 1 at Jiaozuo), & 3 via community screening (2 at Puyang & 1 at Luoyang). 2 domestic confirmed & 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 111 active domestic confirmed & 337 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 17 sites at Zhengzhou & 6 at Pingdingshan are currently at High Risk. 40 sites at Zhengzhou are currently at Medium Risk.
Liaoning Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Fushun) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Jinzhou & 1 at Fushun) cases, 2 persons under centralized quarantine & 2 came from Xinjiang & tested positive upon arrival. 7 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 94 active domestic confirmed & 97 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 7 sites at Fushun, 6 at Huludao, & 3 at Jinzhou are currently at High Risk. 21 sites at Fushun, 14 at Chaoyang, 9 at Huludao, 8 at Anshan, 2 at Jinzhou, & 1 at Shenyang are currently at Medium Risk.
Jilin Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 125 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 site each at Changchun & Tonghua are currently at High Risk. 3 at Changchun & 1 at Tonghua are currently at Medium Risk.
Heilongjiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed & 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 59 active domestic confirmed (56 at Harbin & 3 at Suihua) & 141 active domestic asymptomatic (75 at Suihua, 55 at Heihe, 9 at Harbin, & 1 each at Daqing & Qitaihe) cases in the province. 12 sites at Suihua & 1 at Heihe are currently at High Risk. 14 sites at Suihua, 9 at Heihe, & 1 at Qiqihar are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 14 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 8 sites are currently at High Risk, & 10 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 27 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all persons under centralized quarantine or movement control. 5 domestic confirmed & 28 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 27 sites are currently at High Risk, & 21 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 10 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all persons under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed & 28 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 23 active domestic confirmed case in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 39 sites are currently at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 5 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Hefei & 2 at Wuhu) cases, a traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 2 from out of province (both at Wuhu), & 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (at Hefei), & 1 via community screening (at Hefei). 23 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 191 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 1 site at Fuyang is currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 11 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic, 8 at Nanjing & 1 each at Lianyungang, Nantong & Taizhou) & 17 new domestic asymptomatic (7 at Nantong, 6 at Taizhou, 3 at Xuzhou, & 1 at Nanjing) cases, 19 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine, 1 coming from out of province (at Nanjing), 1 via screening of persons deemed at risk of exposure (at Xuzhou), & 3 via community screening (all at Nantong). 7 domestic confirmed & 24 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 71 active domestic confirmed & 235 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 47 sites at Taizhou & 14 at Nantong are currently at High Risk. 26 sites at Nantong, 22 at Nanjing, 10 at Xuzhou, 9 at Taizhou, & 4 at Lianyungang are currently at Medium Risk.
Zhejiang Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic, 6 at Ningbo & 2 at Taizhou) & 21 new domestic asymptomatic (17 at Ningbo, 2 at Jiaxing, & 1 each at Shaoxing & Taizhou) cases, 25 of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine, 1 coming from out of province & tested positive upon arrival, & 1 via community screening (at Ningbo). 1 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
Fujian Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Longyan) case, a truck driver from elsewhere & tested positive upon arrival. There currently are 24 active domestic confirmed & 8 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
Jiangxi Province reported 5 new domestic asymptomatic (3 at Yushui District in Xinyu & 2 at Xiajiang County in Ji’an) cases, a traced close contacts under centralized quarantine, 2 coming from out of province (both at Ji’an), & 2 via community screening (both at Xinyu). 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic asymptomatic (5 at Xinyu, 4 at Ji’an, 2 at Yichun, & 1 each at Ganzhou & Nanchang) cases in the province.
Sichuan Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed & 38 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 27 domestic confirmed & 10 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered.
Chongqing Municipality reported 6 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic, 5 at Jiangjin District & 1 at Ba’nan District) & 19 new domestic asymptomatic (16 at Jiangjin District & 3 at Yubei District) cases, all of the new domestic positive cases are persons under centralized quarantine or movement control. 6 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 146 active domestic confirmed & 223 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 9 sites are currently at High Risk, & 32 at Medium Risk.
Guizhou Province reported 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 47 domestic confirmed & 93 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 36 active domestic confirmed & 163 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Haibei Prefecture in Qinghai Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a truck driver coming form out of province & tested positive upon arrival.
Tibet “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Chengguan District in Lhasa, all persons under centralized quarantine. 14 asymptomatic cases recovered. The region is no longer publishing the count of active domestic positive cases. 3 sites at Lhasa are currently at Medium Risk.
Yunnan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture) & 45 new domestic asymptomatic (38 at Dehong Prefecture, 6 at Menghai County in Sipsongpanna Prefecture, & 1 at Hekou County in Honghe Prefecture) cases, 1 coming from out of province. 5 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 142 active domestic confirmed & 547 active domestic asymptomatic cases there. 57 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 4 at Honghe Prefecture, & 1 at Sipsongpanna Prefecture are currently at High Risk. 52 sites at Dehong Prefecture, 11 at Honghe Prefecture, 10 at Sipsongpanna Prefectures, & 1 at Yuxi are currently at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 10/19, Mainland China reported 47 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 108 imported asymptomatic cases, & 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 305 confirmed cases recovered (59 imported), 642 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (78 imported) & 24 were reclassified as confirmed cases (4 imported), & 60,973 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 4,218 active confirmed cases in the country (623 imported), 13 in serious/critical condition (all domestic), 15,765 active asymptomatic cases (991 imported), 0 suspect cases. 467,140 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/19, 3,438.588M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 106K doses in the past 24 hrs.
As of 10/19, Hong Kong reported 4,954 new positive cases, 388 imported & 4,566 domestic, & 7 new deaths.
On 10/19, Taiwan added 39,808 new positive cases, 45 imported & 39,763 domestic (including 124 moderate & 80 serious). There were 92 new deaths (from 30+ to 90+ y.o., 27 fully vaccinated & boosted).