Pandemic weekend update

Cyprus

Waive Covid testing requirements for vaccinated visitors

March 2021

Travellers will not need to meet other Covid-related entry rules

British travellers returning from there to the UK are required to self-isolate.

United States

Hospital admissions

Some patients who may benefit from inpatient care are being sent home

Proportion of COVID patients getting hospitalized falling

Previous months

Cases, 7 days, admissions x 3.5%

(10 days, 3.7%)

1 in 29 hospitalised, September and October

October 15

Cases, + 53,000

One week later, expected 1844 new hospitalizations

Actual number was 1855

November 1

Cases, + 80,000

November 8, 2,804 expected

Actual number, 2,604

November 15

Cases, + 146,000

Expected admissions one week later, 5,111

Actual number, 3,670

Staff shortages

Kansas, 46% of hospitals, shortages this week

Mr. Joe Biden

Will ask all Americans to wear a mask for his first 100 days

Dr Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser on the pandemic

Order masks to be worn in federal buildings and public transport

Significant reduction in coronavirus cases

Mr Biden, happy, to have vaccine once Dr Fauci says to

When Dr Fauci says we have a vaccine that is safe that's the moment in which I will stand before the public

UK

UK vaccination

Pfizer, Tuesday, NHS and social care staff in all of UK

Pfizer and BioNTech's plans for the roll-out of the vaccine have not changed

we would supply up to 50 million doses globally in 2020.

We have delivered the first 800,000 doses to the UK

we expect to deliver millions more this year

Any speculation regarding a change in this plan is incorrect

MHRA

Regulatory approvals required to proceed with the splitting up of packs have been put in place

Oxford vaccine trial

Volunteers to be unblinded

Unethical to carry on trial after vaccine in in use

Thirty ill and one death in Moderna control group

UK National position

FDA to advise soon

Problems for other vaccine trials

Will effect longer term comparisons between vaccine and placebo groups

Later trials may compare new vaccines with already approved jabs

England

Police patrolling perimeters of some Tier 2 and 3 areas

To enforce non-essential travel rules

The Government currently advises against non-essential travel from Tier 3 areas

or visiting areas in a higher tier than your own

Tier 1 Cornwall being protected

Businesses on the border are supposed to turn away custom

UK, mass testing

False negatives

Even those with a high viral load

Dr Susan Hopkins, NHS Test and Trace

What we are doing here is case detection

We are not saying people do not have the disease if their test is negative

Bahrain gives vaccine the green light

Emergency-use authorisation for Pfizer/BioNTech

Russia

Cases, +28,782 = 2,431,731

Moscow, cases, + 7,993

Deaths, + 508 = 42,684

Sputnik V via 70 clinics on Saturday

Medical workers, teachers, social workers

Age capped at 60

Underlying health conditions, pregnant women, respiratory illness for the past two weeks

Siberia's Vector Institute vaccine

DRC hospitals struggle with influx of Covid-19 patients

Kinshasa, lack of oxygen

Frequent power cuts

Jean-Jacques Muyembe

The number of cases is rising and the cases are more and more serious

Germany

Bremen protests, 20,000, banned

German success in first wave has led to failures now (RKI)