Following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak - News and Discussion

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Doc67 wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:42 pm
armchairlawyer wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:25 am Asian markets down a little (playing catch-up). US futures up strongly. Oil up 5%. Bonds up strongly (yields down). Crypto up 4%.
Panic over.
While the anecdotal report of Ms Coetzee was very upbeat news, what it did not mention is the fact that it is a tiny sample size and not representative of a cross section of the population. The next 2-4 weeks should tell us much more, both from the vaccine makers research and the studies of those currently infected around the world and the rest that will surely appear in the coming weeks.

Let's see what happens when it rips through a care home, then we'll know if there's nothing to worry about.
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armchairlawyer wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:42 pm
Doc67 wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:42 pm
armchairlawyer wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:25 am Asian markets down a little (playing catch-up). US futures up strongly. Oil up 5%. Bonds up strongly (yields down). Crypto up 4%.
Panic over.
While the anecdotal report of Ms Coetzee was very upbeat news, what it did not mention is the fact that it is a tiny sample size and not representative of a cross section of the population. The next 2-4 weeks should tell us much more, both from the vaccine makers research and the studies of those currently infected around the world and the rest that will surely appear in the coming weeks.

Let's see what happens when it rips through a care home, then we'll know if there's nothing to worry about.
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The share market is more forward looking and I would think need more hard, robust evidence that Omicron is a game changer before it's all doom and gloom.
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Now in 24 countries including South Korea.

Omicron variant found around world as more nations tighten travel rules

US among more than 50 nations bringing in stricter border controls as variant is identified in 24 countries


The US, Ghana, Nigeria, Norway, Saudi Arabia and South Korea were among the latest countries to record cases on Wednesday.

The institute added that South Africa’s daily reported cases of coronavirus doubled to 8,561 on Wednesday from the previous day. The rate of positivity, which means the number of positive results out of total tests, shot up to 16.5% on Wednesday from 10.2% a day before, NICD said. However the number of deaths and hospitalisations did not change much, its data showed.


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Updates on the Covid outbreak in Vietnam

Viet Nam reports 13,670 new COVID-19 cases, 200 more deaths reported on Friday
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HANOI, 03 Dec (VNS) - Viet Nam reports 13,670cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing total cases to 1,280,780.
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101 infections per 100K people reported last 7 days
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Average number of deaths reported each day in Vietnam rises by more than 100 over the last 3 weeks, 25% of its previous peak

Vietnam is reporting 14,008 new infections on average each day, 82% of the peak — the highest daily average reported on November 29.

There have been 1,266,288 infections and 25,658 coronavirus-related deaths reported in the country since the pandemic began.
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Record cases in South Korea

South Korea again broke its daily records for coronavirus infections and deaths and confirmed three more cases of the new Omicron variant as officials scramble to tighten social distancing and border controls.

The 5,352 new cases reported by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on Saturday marked the third time this week the daily tally exceeded 5,000. The country’s death toll was at 3,809 after a record 70 virus patients died in the past 24 hours, while the 752 patients in serious or critical conditions were also an all-time high.

As the Delta-driven surge threatens to overwhelm hospital systems, there is also concern about the local spread of the Omicron variant, which is seen as potentially more infectious than previous strains of the virus.

The country’s omicron caseload is now at nine after KDCA confirmed three more cases. The new cases include the wife, mother-in-law and a friend of a man who caught Omicron from a couple he drove home from the airport after they arrived from Nigeria on 24 November. The couple’s teenage child and two other women who also travelled to Nigeria have also been infected with Omicron.

Officials say the number of Omicron cases could rise as some of the patients had attended a church gathering involving hundreds of people on 28 November.
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Some news out of South Africa and it's not good.

It appears that Omicron will not only re-infect people with prior infections (and naturally produced antibodies) but it appears it is more likely to infect someone with a prior infection than someone without a prior infection.

This data is only for unvaccinated people, they are still awaiting the news the vaccinated group, but as South Africa has a vaccination rate of just 25%, it is the unvaccinated group that are the majority and, as many have already had one infection, they can look forward to another one soon.

Early thoughts are this is all pointing to Omicron having a significant immune escape potential for vaccinated people. There is little solid evidence about the severity of the disease it causes, so far it appears quite mild. Fingers crossed.

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The knock on effect with the concentration mostly on Covid19, how many people will be ill or lost their lives to other illness in the world. These numbers are shocking, and I think many of the deaths preventable with a little foreseen planning, I say this because WHO know of the existing and ongoing problems of Malaria.

Malaria deaths rise by 69,000 in 2020 due to COVID-19 disruptions, says WHO

DAKAR (Reuters) - Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year, but a worst-case scenario was averted, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

In total over 627,000 people globally - most of them babies in the poorest parts of Africa - were killed by malaria last year compared with 558,000 in 2019, the WHO said in its annual malaria report.

The number eclipses the 224,000 people reported to have died from the coronavirus in Africa since the start of the pandemic.

About two thirds of the additional malaria deaths in 2020 were due to coronavirus restrictions disrupting prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria, the WHO said.

But efforts to maintain health services despite the challenges meant Sub-Saharan Africa did not see the doubling of malaria deaths in 2020 that the WHO had warned was a possibility.

Instead, the number of deaths in the region rose 12% compared with 2019, according to WHO data.

"Thanks to urgent and strenuous efforts we can claim that the world has succeeded in averting the worst-case scenario of malaria deaths," said Pedro Alonso, director of the WHO's global malaria programme.

Experts hope the fight against malaria might gain considerable ground following the WHO's recommendation in October that RTS,S - or Mosquirix - a vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline should be widely given to children in Africa.

"With increased funding, access to life-saving tools, and robust innovation in new tools to stay ahead of the evolving mosquito and parasite, we can accelerate transformative action and end malaria within a generation," said Abdourahmane Diallo, chief executive of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria advocacy group.

"We are now at a critical juncture, and I urge global leaders for renewed commitment and investment," he said in a statement.

(Reporting by Alessandra Prentice)

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Scientists find ‘stealth’ version of Omicron that may be harder to track

Scientists say they have identified a “stealth” version of Omicron which cannot be distinguished from other variants using the PCR tests that public health officials deploy to gain a quick picture of its spread around the world.

It came as the number of cases of the original Omicron variant detected in the UK rose by 101 to 437 in a single day and Scotland announced a return to working from home.

The stealth variant has many mutations in common with standard Omicron, but it lacks a particular genetic change that allows lab-based PCR tests to be used as a rough and ready means of flagging up probable cases.

The variant is still detected as coronavirus by all the usual tests, and can be identified as the Omicron variant through genomic testing, but likely cases are not flagged up by routine PCR tests that give quicker results.

Researchers say it is too early to know whether the new form of Omicron will spread in the same way as the standard Omicron variant, but that the “stealthy” version is genetically distinct and so may well behave differently.

The stealth variant was first spotted among Covid virus genomes submitted in recent days from South Africa, Australia and Canada, but it may already have spread more widely. Among the seven cases identified so far, none are in the UK.

The discovery came as the prime minister told the cabinet that Omicron appeared more transmissible and officials conceded this would have consequences for its impact, and the likelihood of further restrictions being needed.

At the cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, also attended by the government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, and England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, Johnson told ministers the “early indications” were that Omicron was more transmissible than the existing dominant variant, Delta, a No 10 statement said.

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