US
Miami Beach
8pm-6am curfew
Probably until 12 April
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/21/miami-beach-officials-impose-covid-curfew-to-curb-spring-break-chaos
Hard-partying crowds, trashed restaurants, brawled in the streets
Gathered in thousands without masks or social distancing
Germany
Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases
Cases per 100,000 per week = 103.9
Threshold, intensive care units can no longer keep up, 100
France
ICU patients at highest level this year
The number of people in intensive care units with + 66 = 4,353
New high for 2021
India
Serum Institute delay, Brazil, Morocco, Saudi Arabia
Tanzania
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56437852
President John Magufuli, aged 61
Sceptics, spiritual approach, herbal-infused steam therapy
Mocked the efficacy of masks
Expressed doubts about testing
UK
Ben Wallace
We can’t be deaf and blind to what’s going on outside the United Kingdom
Decreases level off, (Zoe)
Based on 6565 antigen tests and a million reporters
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-cases-fall-but-numbers-level-off-in-recent-days
Cases, + 4470 (over the past week)
Last week, + 5,494
Down, 18% from last week
Down, 93% from a peak of 69,000
Prevalence, 1 in 823 people in the UK currently symptomatic
Prevalence, 1 in 1369 school-aged children
UK R value is close to 0.8
England, 0.8
Wales, 1.0
Scotland, 1.0
ZOE has found no link found between COVID vaccination and risk of blood clots
Tim Spector
After steady falls at the beginning of the week, we’ve seen cases levelling off in recent days,
especially in Scotland, Wales and the North-East of England.
This is to be expected after reopening schools across the country and is no reason to worry.
We’re keeping a close eye on cases in school-aged children and so far there’s nothing alarming about the data.
I believe we’ll see case numbers holding steady for a little while before cases drop again.
Comparisons in data collecting modalities
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data
Russian death toll
Cases, 4.4 million
Deaths, 93,457
Population, 144 million
Most restrictions lifted in June, 2020
Facemasks mostly worn in public
Demographer Alexei Raksha
If Russia stops at 500,000 excess deaths, that will be a good scenario
Calculates that the current toll is nearing 450,000
In Covid, you choose between the economy and people’s lives – mostly older people’s lives
The Russian state chose the economy. They won’t say it, but it’s obvious
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56454701
Perm, Autumn 4 months figures
https://eng.rosstat.gov.ru
Official deaths for whole pandemic = 1,869
Rosstat, CoViD deaths, 2,388
Excess mortality in Perm: 5,683
In 2020: 40,123
In 2019: 34,440
Anatoly Kasatov
Chief doctor, Perm Regional hospital
You can’t leave people without work. Obviously, the best protection would be a spacesuit, but you can’t wear that for a whole year. So we look for a reasonable balance
Sputnik V
4 million doses so far
Health ministry target of 60% of all adults in six months
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56250456
Levada Centre, 30% of Russians willing to receive Sputnik V
Down 8% since rollout began
President, not vaccinated as far as known
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