COVID–19 Headlines April 9, 2020

The Covid-19 has infected more than 1.49 million and killed more than 88 thousand people worldwide. It has killed more the flu can kill all year. According to the CDC, the deaths this year is estimated to be 24,000 to 63,000.

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Relevant all the time: An article I wrote last year for the Holy Week. I edited a bit for easier reading and toned down the medical terms.

COVID-19 Headlines

Europe has 4,000 ICU beds for every million people. Parts of Africa have 5, health officials say.

The total number of beds in intensive care units available for use during the spread of coronavirus in 43 countries in Africa is less than 5,000. This is about five beds per one million people in those parts of Africa compared, to 4000 beds per one million people in Europe, the World Health Organization reports.

Spain’s daily coronavirus deaths decrease as toll surpasses 15,000

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s number of daily coronavirus deaths slowed on Thursday after two days of increases as 683 people succumbed in 24 hours, taking the total to 15,238, the health ministry said.

New York has received more than 800,000 unemployment claims

“Over 800,000 new unemployment claims in the past three weeks. We don’t have the money to make these,” New York State Budget Director Robert F. Mujica said.

Ecuador’s Moreno calls for probe into handling of corpses in coronavirus outbreak

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno on Wednesday called for an investigation into how local authorities handled the bodies of coronavirus victims in Guayaquil, the epicenter of the country’s outbreak that has overwhelmed health and sanitary authorities.

Family members have complained via social media that public hospitals have failed to quickly locate the bodies of their loved ones and in some cases misidentified the remains.

“We will not allow anyone to be buried without being identified. They deserve a goodbye with dignity!” Moreno wrote via Twitter.

12 noon update. An increase of 13,110 cases and 949 deaths since 7:30 am. Death rate 5.97 %

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Epidemiology expert on keeping restrictions in place: “This is frustrating, but lives are at stake”

“We’ve made so many gains by having a really good national effort at social distancing and doing everything we can to flatten the curve. But if we start to open up, we’re going to see these numbers rebound. We don’t have a population immunity to this virus,” Rimoin said to CNN’s John King.

New York governor says coronavirus has killed 4,000 more people than 9/11

“9/11 was supposed to be the darkest day in New York for a generation,” Cuomo said in a press briefing. “We lost 2,753 lives on 9/11. We’ve lost over 7,000 lives to this crisis. That is so shocking and painful and breathtaking, I don’t even have the words for it.”

Indonesia reports biggest daily jump in coronavirus infections

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia confirmed on Thursday the biggest daily jump in coronavirus infections since cases were first announced last month, with 337 new cases taking the total to 3,293, said a health ministry official, Achmad Yurianto.

Dreaded uptick worldwide of dead spiritual leaders

The Louisiana pastor who preached courage from his deathbed. The nun who always insisted that her order “get down to brass tacks,” and help people. The rabbi who made sure his students did not lack clothes or books.

Even as parishioners, followers and the faithful seek solace and strength from religious leaders in a time of pandemic, the list of those who have died includes more and more clergymen and women.

Philippines’ coronavirus infections top 4,000

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines reported 21 new deaths and 206 additional cases of the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Thursday.

Germany: Gradual return to normality possible if infection trend continues

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Health Minister Jens Spahn told newspaper Handelsblatt that the coronavirus infection numbers in Germany were showing a “positive trend” and if that continued, it would be possible to talk about a gradual return to normality after the Easter break.

Coronavirus: Chinese experts to share frontline experience in Hubei with Philippine doctors-SCMP

Two hospitals, including the Philippines’ designated Covid-19 referral centre, are hoping to gain ‘precious’ knowledge from the specialists on combating the pandemic

Meanwhile, the country’s Covid-19 referral centre says the 25,000 test kits donated by Alibaba founder Jack Ma cannot be used as they have missing parts

China seeks to contain new coronavirus ‘silent carriers’

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China took new measures on Wednesday to try to prevent asymptomatic “silent carriers” of the new coronavirus from causing a second wave of infections, as the country reported another modest rise in confirmed cases.

Coronavirus: as governments feud, researchers, scientists and tech firms fill collaborative void in search for cure-SCMP

Joint efforts of health care industry, pharmaceutical companies and tech firms are a stark contrast to the Washington-Beijing divisiveness

As many as 332 Covid-19 clinical trials have been launched from China, South Korea, Europe and North America, according to the medical journal The Lancet

In March, US tech giant Intel and Hong Kong-headquartered Lenovo teamed up to offer supercomputing capacity to support scientists at Shenzhen, China-based BGI Genomics to analyse the virus’ genome. The tech boost will speed up the sequencing, critical in developing vaccines and treatments, to five and a half hours from the previous 150 hours.

Young doctors brave overwhelming coronavirus crisis-Reuters

“We feel like doctors a century ago when we didn’t have antibiotics,” said Vigil, who works in intensive care at Madrid’s overloaded October 12 Hospital.

He, like other doctors and nurses of his generation, trained in an age when medicine is at the peak of its powers, with a huge arsenal of life-saving treatments and equipment.

Now, they are being handed a sobering lesson on its limits.

7 am EST. A DECREASE of 20,314 cases. Additional 644 cases since 7 pm last night. Death rate of 5.96%

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103-year-old Italian says ‘courage, faith’ helped beat virus

ROME (AP) — To recover from the coronavirus, as she did, Ada Zanusso recommends courage and faith, the same qualities that have served her well in her nearly 104 years.

Italy, along with neighboring France, has Europe’s largest population of what has been dubbed the “super old” — people who are at least 100. As the nation with the world’s highest number of COVID-19 deaths, Italy is looking to its super-old survivors for inspiration.

“I’m well, I’m well,” Zanusso said Tuesday during a video call with The Associated Press from the Maria Grazia Residence for the elderly in Lessona, a town in the northern region of Piedmont. “I watch TV, read the newspapers.”

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Pass the salt: The minute details that helped Germany build virus defences

MUNICH (Reuters) – One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt.

As well as the saltshaker, in that instant, they shared the new coronavirus, scientists have since concluded.

That their exchange was documented at all is the result of intense scrutiny, part of a rare success story in the global fight against the virus.

“We learned that we must meticulously trace chains of infection in order to interrupt them,” Clemens Wendtner, the doctor who treated the Munich patients, told Reuters.

Wendtner teamed up with some of Germany’s top scientists to tackle what became known as the ‘Munich cluster,’ and they advised the Bavarian government on how to respond. Bavaria led the way with the lockdowns, which went nationwide on March 22. More at the link.

Warnings multiply against Easter holiday travel, gatherings

BERLIN (AP) — As the Easter holiday approaches, world leaders and health officials are fervently warning that the hard-won gains in the fight against the coronavirus must not be jeopardized by relaxing social distancing.

A spike in deaths in Britain and New York and surges of reported new infections in Japan and in India’s congested cities make it clear that the battle is far from over.

PM Johnson ‘getting better’ in intensive care as UK extends overdraft

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was getting better on Thursday in intensive care where he is battling COVID-19 as his government extended its overdraft facility and reviewed the most stringent shut down in peacetime history.

Big pool of coronavirus cases going undetected, German researchers say

Widespread testing and isolation of infected people ‘needed to stop renewed outbreak’

About 6 per cent of cases identified worldwide, study estimates

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