Coronavirus Global Updates, Nov 07: Global coronavirus update: Cases top 49 million-mark, says Johns Hopkins

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Global coronavirus update: Cases top 49 million-mark, says Johns Hopkins


The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped the 49 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,241,360, according to the Johns Hopkins University.


As of Saturday morning, the total caseload and death toll stood at 49,228,536 and 1,241,366, respectively, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.


The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 9,727,345 and 236,025, respectively, according to the CSSE.


India comes in second place in terms of cases at 8,411,724, while the country's death toll soared to 124,985.


The other top 15 countries with the maximum amount of cases are Brazil (5,631,181), Russia (1,720,063), France (1,709,716), Spain (1,328,832), Argentina (1,228,814), the UK (1,149,791), Colombia (1,127,733), Mexico (949,197), Peru (914,722), Italy (862,681), South Africa (734,175), Iran (663,800), Germany (641,362), Chile (518,390), and Poland (493,765), the CSSE figures showed.


Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 162,015.


The countries with a death toll above 10,000 are Mexico (93,772), the UK (48,565), Italy (40,638), France (39,916), Spain (38,833), Iran (37,409), Peru (34,730), Argentina (33,136), Colombia (32,405), Russia (29,654), South Africa (19,749), Chile (14,450), Indonesia (14,442), Ecuador (12,761), Belgium (12,520), Iraq (11,244), Germany (11,153), Turkey (10,722) and Canada (10,484).—IANS




Coronavirus update San Antonio, Nov. 6: Officials report 218 new COVID-19 cases, 5 new virus-related deaths




7-day moving average of cases is 218


San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff updated the community about the local response to COVID-19 in their daily briefing Friday night.

Nirenberg reported 67,127 total COVID-19 cases and 1,273 total deaths in Bexar County, as of Friday, an increase of 218 new cases. Five new deaths were reported today.

The 7-day moving average of cases is 218.

City officials also reported that 253 patients are hospitalized, 111 are in the intensive care unit and 52 are on ventilators. There are 10% of staffed beds available and 66% of ventilators available.

Nirenberg said there are 46 COVID-19 patients from El Paso in San Antonio hospitals as the border city experiences a surge in cases.

Manitoba reports 5 more coronavirus deaths, 243 new cases, tighter restrictions coming to south
The ongoing surge of new COVID-19 cases continued in Manitoba Friday as health officials reported 243 new cases, five additional deaths and said further restrictions are coming to the province’s Southern Health region.

The new cases bring the province’s total reported since March to 7,419 and include 4,286 that are active, according to the province’s online COVID-19 dashboard.

Health officials say two of the five new deaths — a man in his 90s and a woman in her 90s — are both linked to an ongoing outbreak at Victoria Hospital in Winnipeg. Another, a woman in her 90s from Winnipeg is connected to an outbreak at Maples Manor.More money coming for fire inspectors, officers in Manitoba to enforce COVID-19 rules



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The other two deaths include a woman in her 40s from the Northern health region and a woman in her 60s from the Interlake-Eastern region.

They bring the province’s total number of deaths from COVID-19 reported since March to 96.


Southern region moves to critical


Manitoba’s chief public officer of health, Dr. Brent Roussin said spiking cases in southern Manitoba — including 52 new cases Friday — mean the region will move to red, or critical on the province’s COVID-19 response system starting Monday.

“We’ve been messaging to Manitobans for quite some times about the importance of the fundamentals and to reduce their contacts, but as we can see our cases have gone in the wrong direction,” he said.

“We’re seeing more cases, more strain on our health-care system and so further action is required.”

The changes will see all restaurants and bars closed to in-person dining, although take-out, drive-thru, and delivery will be allowed, Roussin said. Casinos, VLTs, and gaming facilitates will also be closed.

Capacity at religious gatherings will be cut to 15 per cent, or 100 people, whichever is lower, and retail shops will have capacity dropped to 25 per cent, or five people, whichever is higher. Grocery and pharmacies will be allowed to remain operating at 50 per cent capacity, Roussin said.

Indoor and outdoor recreation and sports facilities will also be closed under the new orders, while gyms and fitness centres will have capacity reduced to 25 per cent and masks will be required at all times, even while exercising.

The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 continued to climb Friday, with provincial numbers showing 160 in hospital with the virus and 20 who are in intensive care.

That’s up from the 153 in hospital and 16 in intensive care reported Thursday.

Manitoba’s five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate rose slightly to 9.1 per cent Friday, up from 8.9 per cent Thursday.

Of the latest cases reported Friday, the majority come from the Winnipeg health region, which identified 136 new cases and reported a 9.2 per cent five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate.

Seventeen of the new cases are from the Interlake-Eastern health region, 23 are from the Northern region, and 15 are from the Prairie Mountain Health region.


New outbreaks, testing sites


Meanwhile health officials said new outbreaks have been declared as of Fridayat Oscar’s Place homeless shelter in The Pas, , Maplewood Manor in Steinbach, and the St. Norbert personal care home in Winnipeg.

Earlier in the day Friday, the province announced a community medical clinic in Winnipeg will offer COVID-19 testing after regular business hours.

The Minor Illness and Injury Clinic will host the new drive-thru clinic in the parking lot of Red River College’s Notre Dame Campus at 2055 Notre Dame Ave.

The province said a new appointment-based, indoor COVID-19 testing is slated to open in Swan River on Monday.

The new site at 621 Main St. (former CMHA Building) will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Health officials said the drive-up testing site at the Swan Valley Primary Care Centre parking lot  will close as of 1 p.m. Friday.

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It will run weekdays from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., and weekends from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointments can be made online.

Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman also said Friday five bylaw officers will be pulled from their regular community duties and moved into helping enforce the new rules.

The officers will focus on those places that are shut down by the province, as well as places like gyms, yoga studios and fitness centres that have been allowed to remain open.

Provincial health officials reported 427 new cases of the virus Thursday as well as four additional deaths.

After weeks of rising case counts across the province, Roussin, said Friday people should stay home as much as possible, and should not be socializing with anyone outside their households.

“Now more than ever, all Manitobans need to focus on staying home, reducing your close contacts and focusing on the fundamentals to keep each other safe,” said Roussin.



Coronavirus: Manitoba asks whole households to isolate if family member is symptomatic

Questions about COVID-19? Here are some things you need to know:

Symptoms can include fever, cough and difficulty breathing — very similar to a cold or flu. Some people can develop a more severe illness. People most at risk of this include older adults and people with severe chronic medical conditions like heart, lung or kidney disease. 

To prevent the virus from spreading, experts recommend frequent handwashing and coughing into your sleeve. They also recommend minimizing contact with others, staying home as much as possible and maintaining a distance of two metres from other people if you go out. In situations where you can’t keep a safe distance from others, public health officials recommend the use of a non-medical face mask or covering to prevent spreading the respiratory droplets that can carry the virus. In some provinces and municipalities across the country, masks or face coverings are now mandatory in indoor public spaces.



The daily coronavirus update: 36 deaths and more than 5,000 new cases — both Minnesota records

With Friday’s new totals, Minnesota’s death toll since the start of the pandemic stands at 2,591.

 


170,307 cases; 2,591 deaths


Thirty-six more Minnesotans have died of COVID-19, the Minnesota Department of Health said Friday, for a total of 2,591. That is the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 announced in a single day since the start of the pandemic. The previous record for deaths reported in a day was 35, a number that was reached on both May 28 and Oct. 31.

Of the people whose deaths were announced Friday, three were in their 40s, two were in their 60s, eight were in their 70s , 13 were in their 80s, nine were in their 90s and one was 100 or older. Twenty-three of the 36 deaths announced Friday were residents of long-term care facilities.

MDH also said Friday there have been 170,307 total cases of COVID-19 in Minnesota. The number of positives is up 5,442 from Thursday’s count and is based on 45,769 new tests, a record. Friday represents the fourth day in a row with a daily new case record.

“Finding more cases is not just a matter of testing more,” Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said Friday.

Case positivity rates continue to increase, and were at a seven-day average of 9.8 percent on Friday, up from 7 percent a week prior. The seven-day positivity average is nearly double the 5 percent level that represents a concern. 

The current caseload and death toll combines Minnesotans with positive PCR tests and positive antigen tests approved under a Food and Drug emergency authorization use. MDH added antigen tests to case counts on Oct. 14.

Hospitals in Minnesota are getting close to capacity. The most recent data available show 224 Minnesotans are hospitalized in intensive care with COVID-19, and 814 are in the hospital with COVID-19 not in intensive care. 



No additional restrictions announced

Given the growth in cases in recent weeks, Malcolm was asked whether the state was considering additional restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19.

She said officials continue to discuss what measures are likely to work best, but said Minnesotans aren’t following current guidance.

“If Minnesotans were following the guidance that currently exists, we wouldn’t need further dial backs, but just given the fact we’ve not seen those behavior changes, we just need to keep getting that message out,” she said.

Infectious Disease Director Kris Ehresmann encouraged Minnesotans to curb risky behavior in order to stop the virus’ spread to stop the filling of hospitals and the growth in deaths.

“We really need people to take this thing seriously and to make some changes so that we can be ahead of this and not be responding downstream,” she said.



Spread in communities threaten long-term care facilities

MDH warned that measures to control COVID-19 infections in long-term care facilities can only go so far when community spread is at high levels as it is now. With high levels of transmission across Minnesota, the virus is more likely to be introduced by staff or visitors, many of whom may have gotten the virus from someone who didn’t know they were infected, and don’t know they’re infected themselves.

Despite better testing and infection control resources than in months prior, Minnesota has seen 1,104 cases of COVID-19 in residents or staff of long-term care facilities in the space of a week. The last time case numbers were over 1,000 in one week in long-term care was in May, Malcolm said.



Saliva testing site to open in Minneapolis Monday

MDH has announced the opening of an eighth COVID-19 saliva testing site on Monday in Minneapolis. The site, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, will be open daily; from noon to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. Insurance will be billed for those who have it but those who are uninsured or underinsured will not be charged for tests. 

MDH has several community testing events on the horizon.   Reservations are recommended.



Coronavirus updates: U.S. reports 121,888 new cases; New York ramps up airport enforcement

New recorded cases of the coronavirus jumped significantly in the U.S. on Thursday to 121,888, according to Johns Hopkins data. That’s nearly 20,000 cases higher than the previous single-day record set on Wednesday. Reporting backlogs and errors have temporarily warped data before, so it’s possible that’s a factor here, too. But the trend is clear: infections are growing rapidly around the country.

The following data was compiled by Johns Hopkins University:

*         Global cases: More than 49.11 million

*         Global deaths: At least 1.23 million

*         U.S. cases: More than 9.66 million

U.S. deaths: At least 235,416




NBA’s Covid-19 shortened season could be model for its future, experts say


The National Basketball Association secured its return with a 72-game season for its 2020-21 campaign and experts say fewer games could benefit the league long-term.

The NBA, which normally has an 82-game schedule, will start the year on Dec. 22 as it wants to preserve its Christmas Day games and looks to add $500 million in extra revenue that can help with Covid-19 losses.

But sports experts say the NBA should consider keeping a 72-game regular-season for the foreseeable future as it could help the league with quality of play. The thinking is fewer games will allow players extra recovery time which could improve gameplay. Fewer games would also decrease travel for players.  

“It’s going to be better across the board of quality basketball and healthier athletes,” said Tony Ponturo, who served as vice-president of Anheuser-Busch global media sports and entertainment marketing. “You take the [revenue] hit and figure out how to make it up in other ways.”

The club owners would need to figure new ways to offset 10 fewer gameday revenue streams but new sponsorships and less operational costs could aid the NBA. The NBA claims gate receipts make up nearly 40% of its income.



Delaware’s mask mandate, stay-at-home order suppressed Covid spread, study finds

A new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that Delaware’s stay-at-home order and face mask mandate — coupled with other health measures —substantially reduced coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths after the state’s first case was identified.

Delaware reported its first case of Covid-19 on March 11 and subsequently issued a stay-at-home order on March 24 that closed all non-essential businesses and schools until June 1. Between that time, Gov. John Carney issued a statewide mask mandate on April 28 and began contact tracing efforts in mid-May, according to the study.

Researchers found those efforts contributed to an 82% reduction in Covid-19 infections and an 88% reduction in hospitalizations, using laboratory data from the Delaware Electronic Reporting and Surveillance System and case investigation data from the Delaware Division of Public Health. They also led to a 100% reduction in deaths in Delaware from late April to June, the study found.

Researchers also identified “several barriers” to Delaware’s contract tracing efforts. Among the more than 9,700 laboratory-confirmed cases reported during March 11 and June 25, nearly two-thirds of the patients were interviewed and 83% either refused to name contacts or could not recall contacts, they found. — Noah Higgins-Dunn



New York to ramp up enforcement at airports over holidays, governor says

New York will ramp up enforcement at its airports during the holiday season to ensure arriving travelers follow quarantine and testing requirements, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

The Democrat governor said he will send in more National Guard members to help enforce the state’s travel advisory, adding that he spoke with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about increasing the New York City Police Department’s presence as well.

According to a newly announced travel order, people travelling to the state are required to get tested for Covid-19 within three days before traveling, quarantine for three days after arrival in New York and get a Covid-19 test on day four. If someone tests negative for a second time upon arrival, they are exempt from a two-week quarantine, according to the order.

“You should not land if you do not have proof of a negative test upon landing,” Cuomo said on a conference call with reporters. “I want people to know we’re serious.”

—Noah Higgins-Dunn



Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb warns the coronavirus epidemic could peak around the innaugration

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC the White House needs to do more in its coronavirus response, even if President Donald Trump loses to Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election. Gottlieb, who previously led the FDA in the Trump administration, specifically pointed to Vice President Mike Pence, since he helms the Coronavirus Task Force.

“I think if the administration does lose the election, I think the vice president can get more engaged in trying to lead a national strategy around coronavirus mitigation now that the election is over. ... It’s not too late,” Gottlieb said on “Squawk Box,” as the nation experiences back-to-back days of more than 100,000 new coronavirus infections.

“Their legacies are going to turn on what they do right now,” Gottlieb added. “Again, if the backdrop of the change over in power is a national crisis of really significant proportion because this is going to get worse before it gets better — and it could get significantly worse — I don’t think that anyone wants to be handing over power against that backdrop.”



Italy sets new daily record for cases, death toll climbs to 40,638

Italy reported 37,809 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, a new record high, jumping more than 3,000 over the day before, according to Reuters, citing data from the country’s health ministry.

The country’s death toll from the disease climbed 446 over that same 24-hour period, bringing the total number of people who have died from the virus to 40,638, the news service said.

The region of Lombardy, which includes Italian financial capital Milan, continued to be the nation’s hardest-hit area, Reuters reported.

— Chris Eudaily



Why Germany’s virus strategy doesn’t appear to be working the second time around

Germany was praised for its initial response to the coronavirus pandemic, but the country re-implemented strict public health measures on Monday, raising questions around the effectiveness of its strategy.

The country’s “light lockdown” came as cases of the coronavirus have continued to rise, with latest from the Robert Koch Institute showing nearly 127 infections per 100,000 people over a seven-day period. The German government is aiming to push this down to about 50 cases per 100,000 people.

Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany “must get the situation under control to a point where the local public health offices can trace contacts again — otherwise the exponential growth will simply spiral further upwards.”

Dr. Hajo Zeeb, head of department for Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, highlighted how people returning from vacation over the summer had resulted in a “major workload” for local public health offices, as they then also had to test these returning citizens.

 

 

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