【無了期唔知幾時完嘅武漢肺炎】國際疫情討論區09

新冠肺炎今增29例本土、3例境外 添4死、累計763人病逝

指揮中心表示，今日新增之29例本土病例（其中7例為居家隔離期間或期滿檢驗陽性者），為17例男性、12例女性，年齡介於未滿5歲至60多歲，發病日介於今（2021）年7月5日至7月15日。個案分布以台北市14例為最多，其次為新北市11例、桃園市2例、宜蘭縣及彰化縣各1例；其中21例為已知感染源、4例關聯不明、4例調查中，相關疫情調查持續進行中。

指揮中心說明，今日新增4例死亡個案，均為男性，年齡介於60多歲至90多歲，發病日介於5月24日至6月16日，確診日介於5月26日至6月24日，死亡日介於7月9日至7月14日。

指揮中心表示，今日新增3例境外移入個案中，案15468為美國籍50多歲男性，7月2日自美國來台工作，持有搭機前3日內檢驗陰性報告，入境後至防疫旅館居家檢疫，7月14日檢疫期滿前採檢，於今日確診；個案在台期間並無症狀，且檢疫期間未與他人接觸，故無匡列接觸者。案15472為本國籍未滿10歲女童，7月2日自美國返台，持有搭機前3日內檢驗陰性報告，入境後至防疫旅館居家檢疫，7月14日檢疫期滿前採檢，於今日確診；個案在台期間並無症狀，已匡列接觸者2人，列居家隔離。案15480為菲律賓籍30多歲男性漁工，4月30日自菲律賓來台，持有搭機前3日內檢驗陰性報告，入境後至防疫旅館居家檢疫，檢疫期滿與自主健康管理期滿採檢結果均為陰性，5月22日登船工作後未再下船，7月14日因有出海作業需求，由公司安排自費採檢，於今日確診；個案在台期間並無症狀，已匡列接觸者18人，其中17人列居家隔離、1人列自我健康監測。

指揮中心指揮官陳時中表示，這幾天個案數雖有波動，但整體疫情趨勢仍然往好的地方發展，呼籲各界合作，一起把疫情控制下來。

25,704 new cases and 799 new deaths (new national record) in Russia

Monkeypore

As of 16 July 2021, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 53 new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection, of which 32 belong to the KTV cluster. Of the 53 cases today, 24 are linked to previous cases, and have already been placed on quarantine. 20 are linked to previous cases and were detected through surveillance. 9 are currently unlinked.

2. In addition, there are 8 imported cases, who have already been placed on Stay-Home Notice (SHN) or isolated upon arrival in Singapore. 2 were detected upon arrival in Singapore, while 6 developed the illness during SHN or isolation.

3. In total, there are 61 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore today.

Worsening again.

印尼成為亞洲疫情新「震中」 單日新增確診病例超過印度

【彭博】-- 印尼單日新增新冠確診病例數超過印度，成為亞洲地區一個新的疫情震中，目前具有高傳染性的delta變種病毒傳播導致印尼這個東南亞最大經濟體的感染病例數激增。

印尼單日新增新冠確診病例連續第二天超過40,000例，其中周二達到創紀錄高點的47,899例；一個月前的單日新增病例不到10,000例。官員們擔心這種傳染性更強的新變種病毒現在正在該國主要島嶼爪哇島以外地區傳播，並且可能令醫務人員壓力劇增以及耗儘氧氣和藥物的供應。

印尼目前的單日新增確診病例數遠低於印度在5月份時日增400,000例的峰值水平。印度周二數據顯示單日新增新冠確診病例數降至33,000例以下，這波災難性的疫情顯露消退跡象。

印尼過去7天平均單日新增907例死亡病例——一個月前僅為 181例，而印度報告平均單日新增死亡病例1,072例。

Indonesia Passes Brazil With Most New Covid Cases in World

Indonesia’s daily Covid-19 case count has passed Brazil’s to become the worst in the world, hitting a record 56,757 on Thursday as the highly-contagious delta variant rampages through the nation.

Infections topped 40,000 for five straight days through Friday, a striking increase from less than 10,000 a month ago, and as many as 1,205 people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. The grim tally comes after Indonesia this week surpassed the numbers in India, where daily cases have dropped from a peak of over 400,000 in May. Brazil’s new infections fell below 53,000 on Thursday.

幾時到香港啊🇭🇰

11,297 new cases and 2 new deaths in the Netherlands

Keep worsening rapidly

英國新增確診逾5.1萬宗 是超過六個月最高數字

英國的新型肺炎疫情惡化，單日新增51870宗確診個案，是超過六個月以來最高的數字，再多49人死亡。

英格蘭公共衛生局數據顯示，感染Delta變種新冠病毒的總個案，較上星期增加一成七，而在近期新增的確診病例當中，大約九成九是感染Delta病毒。

雖然新增確診數字回升，但政府早前確認，英格蘭地區將於下星期一實施最後階段解封。政府首席醫療顧問克里斯惠蒂警告，英格蘭可能會迅速再次陷入危機。

法國單日確診個案再破一萬宗 巴黎鐵塔重開

法國在Delta變種新冠病毒快速擴散下，感染個案上升，繼5月底之後，再次新增超過一萬宗病例。

衛生部通報新增1萬908宗病例，累計超過584萬人染疫，再多22名患者死亡，累計死亡人數11萬多人。

巴黎著名地標艾菲爾鐵塔因為疫情，關閉9個月後，重新開放。這是自二戰以來最長的關閉時間。

為了遵守社交距離措施，每日限制最多1萬3千名訪客，大約是正常情況一半。

The fourth wave of COVID-19 cases is here. Will we escape the UK's fate? It's too soon to know.

A doubling of COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks suggests the United States has entered a fourth wave of the pandemic.

No one knows what the next month or two will bring, but the example of the United Kingdom suggests the infection rate could get quite high, while hospitalizations and deaths stay relatively low.

Top 13 countries of having most new cases on 16 July, 2021

Indonesia remains at the top.

10,082 new cases (new national record) and 141 new deaths (new national record) in Thailand

Keep worsening rapidly.

The European country that has recorded just one COVID death this year

Iceland has recorded just one COVID death this year and has just 60 cases in the entire country, data published on Friday revealed.

The latest figures from Our World in Data show the country had all but suppressed the pandemic over the past six months. Overall the country has recorded 29 deaths and has the lowest death rate in Europe.

However, cases are now on the rise since lockdown restrictions were lifted and border controls were changed at the end of June.

The number of active infections in Iceland had risen to 60 on Friday, up from 34 a week ago. Seven more were reported on Friday.

At least two of the domestic infections diagnosed in recent days are of the Delta variant, which originated in India, which so far has not spread widely within Iceland.

Icelandic authorities held their first COVID-19 briefing in 49 days on Friday due to the recent uptick in domestic infections diagnosed outside of quarantine.

Most of the infected people are fully vaccinated, they said, and all are between 20 and 50 years old. None has severe symptoms.

An article from the Icelandic Public Broadcaster RUV said the person who died with COVID this year was in their 50s and died on 22 May, according to an announcement by the National hospital.

The Icelandic government said it would not impose any domestic restrictions at this time in response to the infections, but has encouraged the public to act with caution in the coming days and weeks and continue to practice personal infection prevention.

Despite the global pandemic, the country's economy has remained resilient throughout. Its three largest banks have withstood the economic impact of the pandemic, the central bank said at the end of June.

"The three large banks are in a strong position, their capital and liquidity are well above regulatory minimal, and they have ready access to liquidity," it said in a statement. "As a result, they are highly resilient."

Long eassy, read more at
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/european-country-one-covid-death-year-160640254.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

英國終於邁向自由
所以Boris係西方文明最重要嘅領袖

First case of Covid-19 reported at Tokyo Olympic village

TokyoA person has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Tokyo Olympics athletes' village, organizers said on Saturday, in the first such case that adds to concerns about infections at the Games which begin next week.

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto confirmed that a visitor from abroad who is involved in organizing the Games had tested positive. He would not reveal the person's nationality, citing privacy concerns.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed for a year due to the global pandemic, is being held mostly without spectators and under tight quarantine rules.
Athletes are just starting to arrive for the Games, which run July 23 through August 8.

The embattled Games have been marred by controversy, with Japan struggling to rein in its Covid outbreak ahead of the opening ceremony on Friday and critics continuing to question whether it is safe for them to go ahead.
Organizers already decided in March to ban overseas fans from the stands, but this month the Japanese Olympic Committee said Tokyo venues will not have spectators due to the city's coronavirus state of emergency -- an unprecedented move, according to an IOC spokesman.
Some athletes have pulled out of the games altogether, including Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios and Australian basketball player Liz Cambage. Thousands of Tokyo Olympic volunteers have also quit.
Japan's public has been lukewarm about the Games amid a resurgence in new infections and worries that an influx of foreign visitors may help turn the Olympics into a super-spreader event, which in turn could put further strain on Japan's already stretched medical system.

Senior Biden officials finding that Covid lab leak theory as credible as natural origins explanation

Long essay at:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/biden-intel-review-covid-origins/index.html

三級警戒以來首降個位數！新冠肺炎增8本土、添1死 陳時中︰7/26後降級可能性很高

中央流行疫情指揮中心指揮官陳時中今天公布，國內新增12例COVID-19確定病例，分別為8例本土及4例境外移入；另確診個案中新增1例死亡。陳時中說，今天是國內三級警戒以來，本土病例首度降到個位數，這是一個好消息，以此疫情趨勢來看，7月26日之後降級的可能性很高，下周起會儘速進行降級相關準備工作。

Three Sydney men 'knew they had Covid' before travelling 300km

Three removalists from Sydney allegedly knew they were infected with Covid-19 before travelling nearly 300km into regional NSW.

The men, aged 27, 27, and 21, from West Hoxton in southwest Sydney, were nabbed after travelling through regional NSW to Molong, in central western NSW.

The trio and another man who hadn't tested positive also stopped in Figtree, South Bowenfels and Orange along the way.

Police escorted the men and their vehicles back to Greater Sydney, issuing them with court attendance notices for failing to comply with COVID directions.

West Hoxton is one of the suburbs listed as an area of concern by NSW Health authorities.

More than 150 people were fined for breaching COVID rules in the past 24 hours.

NSW Police attended more than 1000 COVID-related jobs on Friday, with more than half coming from tip-offs to Crime Stoppers.

In total, 162 fines were issued and 18 people charged for breaches of the Public Health Act.

Among them was a 25-year-old aged care worker who returned a positive COVID test.

The Mt Druitt man was fined $1000 on Friday after police discovered he drove to Blacktown to buy dumbbell weights.

Another man was fined for telling police he drove to Hawks Nest to get "some peace and quiet". He was found by police asleep in his car.

Removalists slammed as 'thoughtless'
Police Minister David Elliott blasted the removalists for putting the majority who are abiding by the health orders at risk.

"This thoughtless act has now placed our regional communities in NSW at the greatest risk so far with this pandemic," Mr Elliott said.

"We know that the Delta variant is highly transmissible, and it is unfathomable to think that, with all the public information and health warnings, people could so blatantly ignore the health orders."

It comes after two different COVID-infected NSW removalists breached their workers' permit conditions and spread the virus during a drop-off in Melbourne in early July, sparking an outbreak that has resulted in the city's fifth lockdown.

NSW recorded another 111 new cases on Saturday, with at least 29 of which were infectious before going into isolation, a number that has prompted authorities to again tighten lockdown restrictions.

3,432 new cases and 13 new deaths in Japan

Keep worsening.

68 new cases in Singapore

Keep worsening.

51,952 new cases and 1,092 new deaths in Indonesia

Still worsening.

有無邊啲 improving? 隨咗台灣

成日 worsening 搞到氣氛好差吓

The actual situation is very bad and our (human) problem is we lie to ourselves.
The overall trend in almost every country is worsening. Improvements seen in some countries come only after a big lockdown to stop the new wave of infection. These countries cannot lockdown forever so they will be worsening again.

Let face the truth, we (human) is beginning to surrender to the Chinese virus:
The first country to surrender is UK:
Boris Johnson’s government has come under pressure to urgently reconsider its plan to end Covid restrictions in England on Monday, as international scientists warned that the move poses a “danger to the world”.

More than 1,200 scientists from around the globe have condemned the prime minister’s decision to forge ahead with so-called “freedom day” on 19 July, describing it as “unscientific and unethical”.

Some of the experts convened an emergency summit on Friday, warning that the UK government’s decision to lift its rules on social distancing and masks amounted to a “murderous” policy of “herd immunity by mass infection”.

The group of scientists – who all signed a recent letter to The Lancet warning against the plans – fear next week’s reopening in England will allow the Delta variant to spread rapidly around the world.
Read more https://uk.yahoo.com/news/boris-johnson-pursuing-covid-policy-112027032.html

The second is Olympics. We postponed the Olympics last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the situation is more than twice worse than last year:
The 7-day moving average of new cases on 16 July, 2020 was 226,878, but the 7-day moving average of new cases on 16 July, 2021 was 492,281 and is worsening faster than one year.
But the Olympics is still going ahead.

We have to face what we (human) have done. Earlier I said UK was already in hell and someone gave my comment a . That person cannot face the truth. Today, UK had defeat Indonesia to have most new cases:
54,674 new cases and 41 new deaths in the United Kingdom
51,952 new cases and 1,092 new deaths in Indonesia

If we don't face the truth and take appropriate actions to stop the virus, a lot more of us will be killed by the virus. The current situation is so bad just because a lot of countries did not want to face the reality.

英國連續兩天確診個案逾5萬宗 衛生大臣亦染疫

英國單日新增54674宗新型冠狀病毒確診個案，連續兩天超過5萬宗，再多41名患者死亡。

已接種兩劑阿斯利康新冠疫苗的衛生大臣賈偉德亦受感染。他說，自己初步檢測呈陽性，症狀輕微，正自我隔離，等待進一步檢測結果。他呼籲尚未接種疫苗的民眾盡快接種。

截至上周五（16日），英國87.8%的成年人已接種第一劑新冠疫苗，67.8%的成年人完成兩劑接種。

政府將按計劃，周一開始解除英格蘭地區餘下的防疫限制措施，包括取消戴口罩的規定，不再限制聚集人數，所有經營場所可恢復營業。

泰國單日確診及死於新型肺炎人數均創新高

泰國單日新增10082人確診新型肺炎，再多141名患者不治，兩個數字均創新高。總理巴育表示，政府正考慮實施更多限制措施，遏止持續惡化的疫情。

泰國累積超過39萬人確診，3240名患者死亡，曼谷和其他多個被視為高風險的地區，自過去的星期一起，已經重新實施嚴格的疫情限制措施，包括限制集會、關閉購物中心和部分企業，以及在晚上9時至凌晨4時實施宵禁。

防疫部門官員說，從目前情況來看，認為如果不採取更多措施，未來3至4個月將出現更多確診和死亡個案，呼籲民眾盡可能留在家中。

Thailand is one of the few countries which has successful suppressed the virus last year. However, it is in big trouble this year. Although there were some improvements from time to time, the overall trend is worsening.