COVID Global Update

US

Cases, + 77,300 = 3,576,221

Deaths, 138,358

Hospitalizations, 56,000

Infections rising in 41 states

Masks

Walmart

Publix

CVS

Target

Best Buy

Starbucks

Costco

Kohl’s

Gun pulled in a Florida store (NBC)

Utah packed room about masks with 5% wearing masks

Georgia

Governor banned cities from requiring masks

Testing

Long lines of cars

48 hours or less, up to 2 weeks

3 days or more, contact tracing, almost impossible to reduce the spread

Rockefeller Foundation

America faces an impending disaster

If it doesn’t dramatically increase testing

4.5 m a week now to 30 m a week by October

Rapid 20-minute antigen tests

Shut everything down

Or let hundreds of thousands of Americans die

Or use testing as a way out

Houston

Army in hospital

Oklahoma

Kevin Stitt

Has actively pushed to reopen his state

Felt “fine” apart from feeling a “little bit achy”.

“Pretty shocked” quarantining away from his family and working from home.

I want to use my story to remind Oklahomans that if you aren’t feeling well, we want you to get tested.

Brazil

Cases, 2,012,151

Deaths, 76,688

Bangladesh

Regent Dhaka hospital owner Mohammad Shahed arrested

Allegations he issued thousands of fake negative coronavirus test results

10,500 coronavirus tests, 4,200 were genuine, 6,300 test reports, were given without conducting tests

Fleeing to India in a burqa

More than a dozen people detained by authorities in recent days

Saying they were virus-free without testing them

Also accused of charging for treatment, after agreeing that his hospitals would provide free care

Italy

Suspended flights to Rome from Bangladesh

Several passengers arriving from Dhaka tested positive

Some of those who tested positive in Italy were allegedly carrying negative coronavirus certificates from Bangladesh, (Shakirul Islam, Migrants Rights campaigner)

Coronavirus direct cause of 89% of pandemic deaths in Italy

Remaining 11% of positive cases

Cardiovascular diseases, 4.6%

Tumours, 2.4%

Respiratory illnesses, 1%

Diabetes, 0.6%

Dementia, 0.6%

Digestive system, 0.5%

Virus was fatal in 28.2% in those who had no co-existing illnesses

71.8% had at least one other condition.

India

125 million people put under a new lockdown in Bihar

France

Prime Minister Jean Castex, masks will be compulsory in all indoor public spaces

Spain

93,000 mink in eastern Aragon

80% of the mink had been infected with the coronavirus

Farm workers then tested positive

Catalan, three districts in Barcelona must stay indoors

North-eastern city of Lerida, 160,000 people

Allowed to leave to go to work, buy food or medication, or to exercise.

Melbourne

Second wave, security guards, who admitted having sex with quarantined travellers, Stamford Plaza in Melbourne

31 cases with phylogenetic link

Al-Taqwa College, (Islamic school) 76 students have tested positive, 160 cases linked

Community transmission

Brett Sutton (Victoria CMO)

Numbers reflect behaviours and mobility from 10 or more days ago

Additional measures may be required

Longer term illness

Severe cases still ill some weeks after

SW Sydney cluster

Dr Jenny Musto

Spread by a 50 year old man from Melbourne (phylogenetics)

Crossed border just before it closed

Worked through the day (3rd July) then went to a party that night at the Crossroads Hotel