【無了期唔知幾時完嘅武漢肺炎】國際疫情討論區09

新增7例COVID-19確定病例，分別為3例本土及4例境外移入

中央流行疫情指揮中心今(14)日公布國內新增7例COVID-19確定病例，分別為3例本土及4例境外移入；另確診個案中新增2例死亡。

指揮中心表示，今日新增之3例本土病例(其中2例為居家隔離期間陽性者)，為1例男性、2例女性，年齡介於30多歲至60多歲，發病日均為今(2021)年8月12日。個案分布為新北市2例、臺北市1例；其中2例為已知感染源、1例關聯不明，將持續進行疫情調查，以釐清感染源。

指揮中心說明，今日新增2例死亡個案中，案4213為50多歲男性，有慢性病史及相關活動接觸史，5月17日起陸續出現咳嗽有痰、胸痛、腹瀉症狀，5月22日就醫採檢並住院隔離治療，5月23日確診，6月11日解除隔離並出院，6月21日因其他原因死亡。案11423為90多歲女性，有慢性病史、無相關活動接觸史，6月3日出現發燒、咳嗽、嘔吐症狀，6月5日就醫採檢並住院隔離治療，6月7日確診，6月22日解除隔離並出院，7月12日因其他原因死亡。

指揮中心指出，近期確診個案解隔離情形，5月11日至8月12日累計公布14,621位確診個案中，已有13,184人解除隔離，解隔離人數達確診人數90.2%。

指揮中心說明，今日新增4例境外移入個案，為2例男性、2例女性，年齡介於20多歲至50多歲，分別自菲律賓(案15950)、俄羅斯(案15951)、印尼(案15952)及越南(案15953)入境，入境日介於7月30日至8月13日；詳如新聞稿附件。

指揮中心統計，截至目前國內累計2,330,539例新型冠狀病毒肺炎相關通報(含2,312,858例排除)，其中15,843例確診，分別為1,323例境外移入，14,467例本土病例，36例敦睦艦隊、2例航空器感染、1例不明及14例調查中；另累計110例移除為空號。2020年起累計821例COVID-19死亡病例，其中813例本土，個案居住縣市分布為新北市402例、臺北市313例、基隆市28例、桃園市26例、彰化縣15例、新竹縣12例、臺中市4例、苗栗縣3例、宜蘭縣及花蓮縣各2例，臺東縣、雲林縣、臺南市、南投縣、高雄市及屏東縣各1例；另8例為境外移入。

20,366 new cases (new national record) and 25 new deaths in Japan

Keep worsening rapidly!

22,144 new cases and 819 new deaths (new national record) in Russia

幾時到香港呀

等咗好耐啦

58 new COVID cases in Singapore, including 17 unlinked

SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Saturday (14 August) reported 58 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, bringing the country's total to 66,119 infections.

Of them, 57 are locally transmitted including 17 unlinked infections.

Among them is a patient above the age of 70 who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, and are at risk of serious illness, said the MOH.

There is one imported case who was detected and isolated upon their arrival in Singapore.

Florida, USA

The state reported 24,730 new cases on Thursday, bringing its seven-day average to more than 18,000 cases a day, according to data compiled by The Washington Post. With 15,796 people hospitalized for the virus, Florida now accounts for 1 out of every 5 covid hospitalizations in the nation. More than 3,200 people are currently occupying beds in intensive care units, an increase of 17% from last week.

DeSantis has opposed implementing pandemic restrictions during the fourth wave of the pandemic. The Republican is in a back-and-forth with school districts that are pushing for mask mandates for children returning to school. That debate is expected to intensify after four educators in Broward County died of the virus within 24 hours, CBS Miami reported.

Texas, USA

No pediatric ICU beds left in Dallas, county judge says

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Friday there were no pediatric intensive care unit beds available in Dallas, Texas and there haven't been for the past 24 hours. Surging COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant and hospital staffing shortages in the area may be in part to blame.

"In Dallas, we have zero ICU beds left for children," Jenkins said Friday at a virtual news conference. "That means if your child's in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect or something and needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have COVID and need an ICU bed, we don't have one. Your child will wait for another child to die."

He said the same is true for pediatric ICU beds in the 19 surrounding counties as well, mentioning that young patients may have to be transported farther away for care.

"Your child will just not get on the ventilator," he said. "Your child will be CareFlighted to Temple or Oklahoma City or wherever we can find them a bed, but they won't be getting one here unless one clears and that's been true for 24 hours."

As of August 6, there were 573 children aged 0 to 17 hospitalized from COVID-19 complications in Dallas County since the beginning of the pandemic, according to weekly data published by the Dallas County Department of Health.

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Are you the one who created a post at LIHKG earlier to talk about this new national record?
I am sorry that I was unable to quote your post. When I had time to quote that post, I could not find the post.

I hope you can post more about Japan because I just do not have enough time to study so many countries.

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台灣有醫生開podcast講日本個疫情
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France reports more than 100 new coronavirus patients in ICU wards

PARIS (Reuters) - France saw the number of patients in intensive care wards with COVID-19 increase by 111 on Monday, the first time since early April that the tally was over 100, health ministry data showed.

The total number in emergency care beds rose to 1,667, following a steady increase from a 2021 low of 859 on July 21. At the end of April, at the peak of the third wave, more than 6,000 COVID-19 patients were in ICU.

The worsening data follows a sharp increase in the number of daily new infections, driven by the more contagious Delta variant of the virus. New infections are back to a seven-day average of more than 22,000 per day, after having fallen to less than 2,000 per day at the end of June.

France also reported 68 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals, taking the total to 112,270.

南韓增1817宗確診 憂假期出行人數增病例或會上升

南韓過去一天新增1817宗新型肺炎確診個案，累計確診22萬3928宗。新增8宗死亡病例，累計2156人死亡。

單日新增病例較對上一天減少，但屬周末最高紀錄。

當局相信，在疫情擴散勢頭未被遏制情況下，預料光復節假期出行人數，將會大幅增加，確診病例可能進一步增加。

法國連續第5個周末有民眾示威反對健康通行證

法國全國連續第5個周末有民眾示威，抗議政府推行健康通行證制度。

巴黎、馬賽、尼斯及蒙彼利埃等多個城市，都有民眾上街，他們揮動標語，形容通行證等同種族隔離政策，又高叫「自由」的口號。

內政部說，全國各地21.5萬人參加示威，其中巴黎有1.4萬人。

根據規定，民眾必須出示證明，已完成接種新冠疫苗、病毒檢測呈陰性或從感染病毒中康復，才可進入餐廳、咖啡店、文化場所或乘搭火車。示威者認為，政策侵蝕基本自由。

日本第二日逾兩萬宗確診 政府或研究擴大緊急事態範圍

日本新增20147人感染新冠病毒，連續第2日確診人數超過2萬，而全國重症患者增至1521人，亦連續2日創新高。

東京都佔最多，有5094宗，是連續第2日超過5千宗。

《共同社》報道，鑑於疫情在全國範圍擴大，首相菅義偉下星期將與閣僚磋商，是否擴大緊急事態宣言範圍。

伊朗封城約一周遏止第5波疫情

伊朗將由下星期一起封城約一星期，以遏止第5波新冠疫情擴散。

國營電視台報道，非必要的商業和辦公室要關閉直至本月21日，由明日起至本月27日，除了運送食物和必需品的貨車和救護車外，所有道路要關閉，當局強調會嚴格執行交通禁令 。

當局只會容許露天進行的宗教儀式聚會。

衛生部門公布新增29700宗確診，466人不治。

Germany tightens travel restrictions on US as COVID-19 cases surge

Germany added the United States to its "high-risk" area list and will soon tighten entry restrictions for unvaccinated travelers who had recently been in the U.S.

Starting Sunday, travelers who have recently spent time in the U.S. will need to be fully vaccinated or demonstrate an “important reason” for entering. Those who are unvaccinated or unable to show proof of recovery will need to self-isolate for 10 days upon arrival. The quarantine period can end on the fifth day with proof of a negative COVID-19 test.

Previously, unvaccinated travelers had to show a negative coronavirus test to enter Germany.

The change comes as the U.S. faces its fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by the highly contagious delta variant. The country reported more than 900,000 new COVID cases in the past week with nearly 52% of its population vaccinated, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Medicine.

Israel, Turkey and Vietnam and other countries were also added to Germany’s high-risk list, joining destinations like the United Kingdom, Spain, India and Mexico.

Germany has been open to tourists from the U.S. since June 20, shortly after the European Union added the United States to a list of countries it believed could see the gradual lifting of travel restrictions. The recommendation is not binding, and each country in the bloc can enforce its own travel restrictions.

The EU has yet to remove the U.S. from its safe travel list, despite the U.S. maintaining a travel ban on most European countries. Restrictions against the European Schengen area were first implemented in March 2020 and prevent travel to the U.S. for most people from:

Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Monaco
San Marino
Vatican City
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed President Joe Biden on the travel ban during a meeting last month. Biden said at the time that his team was reviewing the travel restrictions, but no changes have been made.

新冠肺炎今增2例本土、7例境外 無新增死亡

指揮中心表示，今天新增之2例本土病例（均非居家隔離期間陽性者），均為40多歲女性，且均為無症狀感染。個案分布為台北市1例、新北市1例；2例關聯不明，將持續進行疫情調查，以釐清感染源。

指揮中心指出，近期確診個案解隔離情形，5月11日至8月13日累計公布14,637位確診個案中，已有13,172人解除隔離，解隔離人數達確診人數90.0%。

指揮中心說明，今日新增7例境外移入個案，為3例男性、4例女性，年齡介於20多歲至40多歲，分別自美國（案15956、15957）、韓國（案15958）、波蘭（案15959）、南非（案15960）、阿拉伯聯合大公國（案15961）及立陶宛（案15962）入境，入境日介於8月1日至8月13日，均持有搭機前3日內檢驗陰性報告。

Step 2. We need to know the differences in meanings of the words used by different countries.

At first, there were no international standard for the definitions of "new cases" and "new deaths". Later, WHO issued a standard for all countries for reporting purposes. However, not every country follows the standard set by WHO.

Take UK as an example. In order to reduce the number of COVID-19 deaths, UK suggested to their doctors that the doctors did not needed to write down COVDI-19 as the cause of death in the death certificate. This suggestion was condemned by some health workers.
Finally, UK only counts people who die within 28 days after positively tested so that they can reduce the number of reported COVID-19 deaths.

As a result, now some British said "Flu and pneumonia (肺炎) deaths now 10 times higher than Covid". Read, for example, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/22/flu-pneumonia-deaths-now-ten-times-higher-covid/

However, the original name of COVID-19 is 武漢肺炎.

Again, you have to spend a lot of time to know what really have happened in a country before you can interpret the data about that country correctly.

希臘首度出現完成接種疫苗人士確診染疫死亡

希臘有醫院管理層表示，院內一名已經完成接種新冠疫苗的新型肺炎確診者病逝，是當地首次有打齊針的人不敵新冠病毒離世。 法新社引述當地傳媒報道，這名男患者是一名70歲牙醫，沒有潛在病徵。醫院說，患者早前已採取一切防疫措施，他的妻子和子女亦已接種疫苗。

希臘累計有13200名確診患者不治，平均年齡78歲，當地確診病例在過去一星期激增，上星期三錄得超過4000宗病例，較前一星期前增加超過1000宗，部分地區近日實施宵禁等防疫限制措施。有意見憂慮成千上萬遊客在秋季回國，會在希臘引發新一波疫情大流行。

新冠肺炎添8例本土及2例境外 無死亡個案

中央流行疫情指揮中心今(16)日公布國內新增10例COVID-19確定病例，分別為8例本土及2例境外移入；另確診個案中無新增死亡。

指揮中心表示，今日新增之8例本土病例(其中6例為居家隔離期間或期滿檢驗陽性者)，為3例男性、5例女性，年齡介於10多歲至50多歲，發病日介於今(2021)年8月10日至8月15日。個案分布為新北市6例、臺北市及桃園市各1例；其中6例為已知感染源、2例關聯不明，將持續進行疫情調查，以釐清感染源。

指揮中心指出，近期確診個案解隔離情形，5月11日至8月14日累計公布14,644位確診個案中，已有13,178人解除隔離，解隔離人數達確診人數90.0%。

指揮中心說明，今日新增2例境外移入個案中，案15965為本國籍10多歲女性，已接種COVID-19疫苗，8月2日自美國返臺，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，8月14日接受檢疫期滿前採檢，於今日確診；個案在臺期間並無症狀，已匡列接觸者2人，列居家隔離。案15972為迦納籍30多歲男性，長期居住於臺灣，無接種COVID-19疫苗，今年3月前往迦納，8月1日自迦納返臺，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，8月15日接受檢疫期滿前採檢，於今日確診；由於個案在臺期間並無症狀，且檢疫期間未與他人接觸，故無匡列接觸者。

指揮中心統計，截至目前國內累計2,361,186例新型冠狀病毒肺炎相關通報(含2,343,668例排除)，其中15,862例確診，分別為1,332例境外移入，14,477例本土病例，36例敦睦艦隊、2例航空器感染、1例不明及14例調查中；另累計110例移除為空號。 2020年起累計821例COVID-19死亡病例，其中813例本土，個案居住縣市分布為新北市402例、臺北市313例、基隆市28例、桃園市26例、彰化縣15例、新竹縣12例、臺中市4例、苗栗縣3例、宜蘭縣及花蓮縣各2例，臺東縣、雲林縣、臺南市、南投縣、高雄市及屏東縣各1例；另8例為境外移入 。

政府指近期不少輸入個案都在完成接種疫苗後，隨即參與非必要外遊，強烈呼籲市民避免所有非必要外遊計劃

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Texas Supreme Court blocks orders allowing masks

The Texas Supreme Court stepped in Sunday evening to block lower-court orders that had allowed Dallas and San Antonio — and cities, counties and schools across Texas — to impose mask mandates contrary to an executive order by Gov. Greg Abbott. The temporary restraining orders, issued by separate District Court judges and upheld Friday by intermediate appellate courts, had halted enforcement of Abbott's July 29 edict.

We cannot save the people in Texas!

4,002 new cases and 3 new deaths in Canada

Worsening again.

美國疫情惡化 兒童累計入院人數創新高

美國的新型肺炎疫情惡化，兒童累計入院人數創新高，達到1902人。

Delta變種病毒肆虐，現時美國每日平均新增個案達到12萬9千宗，比過去兩星期倍增，入院人數是半年來新高。不單止兒童，18至49歲入院人數上周亦創新高，而美國每日平均有600名患者死亡，比上月倍增。

全國五分一入院的患者都在佛羅里達州，達到16100人，同樣創新高，州內九成深切治療部病床已被使用。

美國12歲以下小童仍未能注射疫苗，應否強制學生開課時戴口罩，減低他們受感染機會，在部份共和黨管治的州份引起爭議或訴訟，有學校不理會州政府禁令，決定要求學生返學戴口罩。

另外紐約州政府強制全部醫護人員，下月尾前要注射至少一劑疫苗，州政府早前已強制必須面對病人的公立醫院員工打針，目前七成半公院醫護人員完成接種。