【無了期唔知幾時完嘅武漢肺炎】國際疫情討論區09

咪講咗每年要打新針囉

其實個plan係咪以後唔生得仔，有咗唔打得疫苗，究竟死亡率幾低先可以當佢本土病唔再理，日日j確診真係成世載口罩年年打疫苗喎

Health experts are investigating a new 'Thai variant' of COVID-19 which has been connected to more than 100 cases in the UK.

The variant, known as VUI-21MAY-02 (C.36.3), was first detected in Thailand in people who had travelled from Egypt, Public Health England (PHE) has confirmed.

There have now been 109 cases detected in the UK, PHE said in an update.

It has now been designated a 'variant under investigation' and PHE is carrying out laboratory testing to better understand the impact of the mutations on the behaviour of the virus and determine whether it reaches the threshold of being a 'variant of concern'.

An update on the government website said: "There is currently no evidence that this variant causes more severe disease or renders the vaccines currently deployed any less effective."

It added: "PHE is carrying out laboratory testing to better understand the impact of the mutations on the behaviour of the virus.

"All appropriate public health interventions will be undertaken, including additional contact tracing and targeted testing.

"Where cases have been identified, additional follow-up of cases, testing of contacts and if required targeted case finding will limit its spread."

英國新型冠狀病毒疫情有惡化迹象，累計印度變種病毒株確診個案在一星期間倍增至近7000宗，佔新增個案的四分之三，該國的新增確診宗數亦止跌回升。

唔知隻泰國變種會唔會再勁過印度變種
記住，病毒源至武漢

希望香港快啲爆第五波啦

儲起好多現金等住入市

4,182 new cases and 10 new deaths in the United Kingdom.

Worsening rapidly.
病毒源至武漢

8,290 new cases (new national record) and 61 new deaths in Malaysia

連續第5日創單日新高

溝埋佢再變一隻新

無限金錢大法
有樓玩晒 窮撚慘了 之後通脹一定好勁

不是說好要攬炒 ？
朂強手足 Covid

馬來西亞新增逾9千宗確診 連續5天創新高

馬來西亞新增9020宗新型肺炎確診個案，再創單日新高。

當地連續5天新增病例創新高，累計55萬8千多人染病。

總理穆希丁昨天宣布，下月1日起全國封城14天，暫停經濟和社會活動。

有幾強？ 有錢人仲有咗
攬炒窮人

馬來西亞人口亞洲嚟講算小，地又大，近萬真係爆得幾勁。

療養ホテルを無断外出の男性、自宅前でインターホン越しに家族から説得され引き返す

　高知県は２９日、新型コロナウイルスに感染して宿泊療養施設となっている高知市内のホテルに入っていた男性が、無断で一時外出していたと発表した。

　県によると、男性は２７日午後８時頃にホテルを出て徒歩で自宅玄関前まで戻ったが、インターホン越しに家族からホテルに帰るように説得され、約１時間後に戻った。男性は軽症で外出中はマスクをしており、接触者はいなかった。

　同ホテルで療養中は、県が内線電話での健康状態確認などで、在室を確認している。無断外出で損害が生じた場合、賠償請求もあり得るという。再発防止のため、県は警備員による確認を強化する。

30 May 2021 読売新聞オンライン

台灣新增274宗本土確診及4宗境外輸入個案

台灣新增274宗新型肺炎本土確診個案，4宗境外輸入個案；另有共73宗追加本土個案。

新增的本土病例，年齡介乎未滿5歲至90多歲，發病日介乎上月29日至昨日。至於追加個案，年齡介乎未滿5歲至80多歲，發病日介乎本月14日至前日。

綜合統計所有本土個案，新北市的病例最多，其後依次為台北市、桃園市、彰化縣及台中市等，其中大部分有雙北活動史。

另外，台灣新增15宗死亡病例。

Improving!

Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine not expected to require a booster in 6–12 months; variant of concern-specific shot preferred but a third Comirnaty dose likely sufficient, experts say
https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/comment/pfizer-biontechs-covid-19-vaccine-not-expected-to-require-a-booster-in-6-12-months-variant-of-concern-specific-shot-preferred/

South Africa returns to stricter lockdown, virus 'surging'

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday that his country will return to stricter lockdown measures in the face of a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases that indicate the virus is “surging again” in Africa's worst-affected nation.

Positive cases in South Africa in the past seven days were 31% higher than the week before, and 66% higher than the week before that, Ramaphosa said in a live TV address. He said some parts of the country, including the commercial hub Johannesburg and the capital city Pretoria, were now in “a third wave."

“We do not yet know how severe this wave will be or for how long it will last,” Ramaphosa said.

In response, Ramaphosa said that from Monday the nighttime curfew would be extended by an hour to start at 11 p.m. until 4 a.m. A maximum of 100 people would be allowed at indoor social gatherings and no more than 250 at an outdoors gathering. The number of people attending funerals will be limited to 100 people and after-funeral gatherings were banned completely, Ramaphosa said. Nonessential businesses must close by 10 p.m.

“We have tended to become complacent,” Ramaphosa said, warning virus infections were “surging again” at a time when the country moves into its winter months and people were more likely to gather together indoors, likely further increasing infections.

South Africa's decision to go back to a stricter lockdown reinforces — as the crisis in India has already done so starkly — how the global pandemic is far from over.

“We have seen in other countries the tragic consequences of leaving the virus to spread unchecked,” Ramaphosa said. “We cannot let our guard down.”

South Africa has more than 1.6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 56,000 deaths, more than 30% of the cases and 40% of the deaths recorded by all of Africa’s 54 countries, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. South Africa recorded 4,515 new cases over the past 24 hours and Ramaphosa said the “positivity rate” among tests conducted was now “a cause for concern.”

South Africa had been under lockdown level one, the lowest of its five levels, but was now reverting to an “adjusted level two," Ramaphosa announced. Authorities did stop short of reimposing the strict measures like limits on people's movements during the day and a ban on the sales of alcohol and tobacco products that were in place at times last year.

South Africa has seen two previous surges in infections, the first in the middle of last year and a second, much worse wave in December and January, when the emergence of a variant pushed infections and deaths to higher levels than the first surge. The virus was currently following “the same trajectory" as those waves, Ramaphosa said.

Experts have warned that this wave, arriving with the Southern Hemisphere winter, might be even worse.

The surge in cases also cast more attention on South Africa's lagging vaccine rollout. Only around 1.5% of the country's 60 million people have received a vaccine. Health workers were the No. 1 priority but less than 500,000 of the 1.2 million health workers have been vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson one-dose shot. South Africa only began vaccinating its elderly citizens two weeks ago. In total, 963,000 South Africans had received a vaccine by Sunday, the government said, although half of those have only received the first of two required doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

South Africa has "secured" more than 50 million vaccines, Ramaphosa said, but currently has only 1.3 million doses in the country that are ready to be rolled out. More Pfizer-BioNTech doses are expected to arrive next week, and weekly after that, he said. South Africa hopes to vaccinate around 40 million people by the end of the year, a target that looks increasingly unlikely.

新增7宗新型肺炎確診 包括6宗輸入及1宗本地個案