Hong Kong, massive omicron wave, Africa update video
Wefwafwa’s community health channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsLklGgOttU3Se-WGLp7ow
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/18/hong-kong-covid-surge-vaccination-rates
Beaches, theatres, museums, schools, gyms, libraries are shut.
Two people can meet in public
Strategy so far, keep the virus out
Trust issues, controls
Residential blocks suddenly cut off
Unvaccinated over 80
NZ, 2%
HK, 66%
Low levels of natural immunity
Out of coffins
Out of morgue space
Body bags on wards
China
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/19/china-reports-first-covid-deaths-since-january-2021
Cases, + 4,365 + 4,051
Deaths, + 2 = 4,638
Fist since January 26th 2021
Zero-COVID strategy
Tens of millions, stay-home orders
Travel bans
Built 8 makeshift hospitals
Quarantine centres
Quarantined for days or weeks
President Xi
China to ‘stick with’ zero-COVID strategy
continue to put people and life at the forefront, stick with scientific accuracy and dynamic-zero,
and curb the spread of the epidemic as soon as possible
King Canute and the tide (1028)
(Henry of Huntingdon)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Canute_rebukes_his_courtiers.png
South Africa
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/
Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/16/global-powers-inch-closer-to-agreement-to-waive-covid-vaccine-patents
Compromise, United States, European Union, India, South Africa, end a deadlock over an intellectual property waiver
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