Monday 12th April, England
All shops can reopen
Hairdressers, beauty salons, other close-contact services can open
Restaurants and pubs, food and alcohol outdoors
Gyms, spas, zoos, theme parks, libraries, community centres
Members of the same household can take a holiday in England in self-contained accommodation
Up to 15 people can attend weddings and 30 can attend funerals
Children can attend any indoor children’s activity
Care home visitors will increase to two per resident
Driving lessons can resume, with tests restarting 22 April.
UK
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Cases, + 1,730 (+ 18,403)
Down 30.2%
Deaths + 7 (+ 251) = 127,087
Up 2.4%
Deaths, + 799 (7 days) = 149,968
Hospitalisations
Daily, + 221 = 2,862
Last 7 days, 1,606
Down 21%
Vaccinations
Saturday boosters, 475,230
Saturday primers, 111,109
Primer, 32,121,353 (61%)
Booster, 7,466,540
US VOVs.
Cases and deaths
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant-cases.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/09/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
VOC increases in Michigan, 1,503 in March to 7,226 last week
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/michigan/
B.1.1.7 variant has become the dominant strain, present in 50 states
P.1 (Brazil) variant second, largest number in Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida
Cape Cod, Brazilian connections
US Vaccinations
119,242,902 (35.9%)
72,630,892 (21.9%)
Brazil
P.1
P.2
Projected deaths
https://covid19.healthdata.org/brazil?view=total-deaths&tab=trend
President Jair Bolsonaro
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56663217
just a little flu
stop whining
Said he wouldn’t get vaccinated
Dismissed opportunities to purchase millions of vaccine doses
Chinese vaccines
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-vaccine-efficacy-not-high-gao/2021/04/11/dafe3ab6-9a8f-11eb-8f0a-3384cf4fb399_story.html
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, George Gao
China, formally considering vaccine options
To solve the problem that the efficacy of the existing vaccines is not high
Sinopharm and Sinovac, inactivated viruses
60 countries have approved Chinese vaccines
Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Cambodia
John and Tim write up
https://covid.joinzoe.com/blog
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