Monday Global Update

COVID -19, Update, Monday 8th June

New Zealand

Cases, 1,504

Deaths, 22 (1.46)

Alert level 1

No known active cases of COVID-19

Social distancing no longer required

No more limits on gatherings

Border will remain closed to non-New Zealanders.

Hoping to control any potential future outbreaks with contact tracing.

1. If you are sick stay home

2. If you have cold or flu-like symptoms, get a COVID-19 test

3. Regularly wash your hands

4. Sneeze and cough into your elbow

5. If you're told by health authorities to self-isolate, do it

6. Work with your GP if you heave underlying health issues and are at higher risk

7. Keep track of where you have been to help contact tracers

8. Businesses should help Kiwis with contact tracing by displaying QR codes

9. Be prepared for a move up alert levels if we need to

10. Be kind to others

3 Officers effected by bleach

Cameroon

Deaths, 7,908

Cases, 212

Illegal to intentionally infect others

Brazil

Deaths, 691,758

Cases, 36,455

Live data only to be published

Chile

Cases, 134,150

Deaths + 653 = 2,290

US

Cases, 1,942,363

Deaths, 110,514

Protests, LA, SF, Chicago, Washington

Cases

Clusters

Community spread

Incubation

Symptomatic

Complications

Deaths

Andrew Cuomo

"Get a test. Get a test,"

People who have been participating in rallies

Plans to open 15 testing sites dedicated to protesters

"I would act as if you were exposed, and I would tell people you are interacting with, assume I am positive for the virus,"

Afghanistan

Kabul

Cases, 20,917

Deaths, 369

1 m infected

Saudi Arabia

Largely spread through low income migrant workers in challenging conditions

Cases, + 3,045 = 101,914

Deaths + 712 = 712

Russia

Cases, 476,043

Deaths, 5,963

Lockdown easing

India

Record spike in coronavirus cases

Cases + 9,971 = 246,628

Deaths, 6,929

New Delhi

Mumbai

Ahmedabad.

Delhi

Reserved hospital beds for residents

Sick flocked in from the provinces.

UK

New cases, 9,400

Deaths, + 77 = 40,625

Arrivals to self-quarantine for 14 days

Devon tourists and closed toilets

SAGE, 100 members

Oxford AZ vaccine announcement in August

Central London crowds

27 officers injured so far

Ken March, (Police federation) they should not be there, protests should not be allowed

Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19

Over 80s, seventy times more likely to die than under 40s

More males than female

More in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)

These analyses take into account age, sex, deprivation, region and ethnicity, but they do not take into account the existence of comorbidities

Managed not to mention vitamin D or air pollution

Netherlands

4 million mink

Mink being culled after infections confirmed

Mink farms could be a reservoir

Spread to farmer family

Denmark

Spain

Detection dogs as a help in the detection of COVID-19 Can the dog alert on COVID-19 positive persons by sniffing axillary sweat samples ? Proof-of-concept study

We conclude that there is a very high evidence that the armpits sweat odour of COVID-19+ persons is different, and that dogs can detect a person infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.