World Update

COVID -19, Update, Thursday 18th June, Sorry, Global deaths are nearly half a million, made an error in the figures. Corrected below.

Global

Cases, 8,196, 735

Deaths, 450, 287

Pakistan

Cases, 154760

Deaths + 140 = 3,037.

Smart lockdowns within major cities

Acterma Injection is being sold at 1900$+

Pulse oximeter 60$

Oxygen Cylinders $100

Plasma, 1900$ to 5000$

Ventilators shortages, none available in government hospitals

US

Cases, 1,137,731

Deaths, 116,963

Anthony Fauci, Arizona, Texas, Florida, need aggressive measurse to prevent ‘a real surge’

New cases on Tuesday 16 June

Florida 2,783

Texas 2,622

Arizona 2,392

‘All you need to do is look at the data, the facts, to see that the pandemic is not over by any means. The numbers speak for themselves’

Rt more than 1

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

Florida

Hawaii

Louisiana

Mississippi

Montana

North Carolina

Oklahoma

Oregon

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Washington

US airlines

Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines

NZ

Two women who travelled from the United Kingdom

Tested positive

Let out of hotel quarantine early for compassionate reasons

Had been no cases for 24 consecutive days.

Flew into country

Compassionate leave banned

Military now in charge

Brazil

Cases, + 34,918 = 920,000

Deaths, + 1,300 = 45,241.

Very limited testing

Major cities re-opening

Peak not yet reached

Russia

Cases, 552,549

Deaths, 7,468

Putin's disinfection tunnel

Beijing

57 days without a locally-transmitted case

Under renewed restrictions

31 new cases on Wednesday

137 in the past week.

Xinfandi food market

UK

Cases, 299,600

Deaths,42,054

London West End

Hand sanitiser dispensers on streets

Social distancing ambassadors

Doubling of the pavement on Regent Street.

11km of extra cycleways space

800 cycle storage spaces

Germany

Cases, 188, 466

Deaths, 8, 843

Tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times in first 24 hours

Turkey

Cases, 181,298

Deaths, 4,842

Restaurants and cafes reopened

Intercity flights and car travel resumed

Weekend stay-home orders were lifted

Post-lockdown increase in cases

New cases have roughly doubled to 1,600 per day since June 1

Taiwan

Domestic restrictions mostly lifted

Has been closed to most foreign visitors since mid march

Opening borders to some business people from the start of next week

Lower-risk countries

Testing and quarantine

First-rate public health system

Thailand

Cases, 3,135

Deaths, 58

All parks, beaches and swimming pools were closed down early

Daily briefings were given every day on TV and reported in the media

No travel between provinces for a period of time and 14 days quarantine at home

People flying in, 14 days quarantine in govt-approved centres

Detecting & investigating of new case

1,040,000 village health volunteers nationwide

An additional 15,000 public health volunteers in Bangkok

"the warriors in grey shirts"

Group of voluntary workers has spread out across the country to promote public health

After receiving training, each volunteer looks after 10-15 households

Often home to the bedridden, the disabled, and the elderly

No shoes in the house