【無了期唔知幾時完嘅武漢肺炎】國際疫情討論區09

28,790 new cases and 590 new deaths in Colombia

The trend is still worsening.

12,990 new cases and 290 new deaths in Indonesia

Worsening rapidly.

'Significant' problems linked to Sinovac vaccine in other countries: MOH official

SINGAPORE — There is a significant risk of "vaccine breakthrough" with the Sinovac vaccine, or CoronaVac, with international evidence showing that many who had taken it were later infected with COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health's (MOH) director of medical services Kenneth Mak on Friday (18 June).

Addressing reporters at a virtual media briefing by the multi-ministry taskforce on the coronavirus, Associate Professor Kenneth Mak said that Singapore has been assessing the experience of countries such as Indonesia, which has vaccinated a "larger proportion" of the population using CoronaVac.

Alluding to recent reports that more than 350 doctors and medical workers in Indonesia were infected with COVID-19 despite being vaccinated with CoronaVac, Associate Professor Mak noted, "It's not a problem associated with Pfizer. This is actually a problem associated with the Sinovac vaccine, and in other countries, they are now starting to think about booster vaccinations, even six months out from an original vaccination for some of these vaccines as well.

"So it does give the impression that the efficacy of different vaccines will vary quite significantly," said Prof Mak, stressing that Singapore has "great confidence" in the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, of which more than 4.7 million doses have so far been administered in the country.

Prof Mak was responding to a question on whether Singapore intends to introduce the Sinovac vaccine into its national vaccination programme. On Wednesday, 24 healthcare institutions were licensed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) to provide the Sinovac vaccine to those who wish to take it.

The 24 institutions were selected under the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act (PHMCA) to be licensed providers under the Special Access Route (SAR). A number of the approved institutions have been seeing long queues of individuals forming at their premises, with some saying their telephones lines have been ringing non-stop in recent days, according to local media reports.

Sinovac remains unregistered and is not authorised by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), and is to be provided only under the SAR framework. As such, it will not be covered under the Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme (VIFAP) meant for the national vaccination programme.

Prof Mak noted that there still is some "outstanding data" on the vaccine that Sinovac has not provided to HSA, which is required to give "complete assurance" about its quality and safety profile. "We look forward, if data becomes available for us, then to (commence) this process of evaluation but unfortunately we're not able to do so."

2,635 new cases and 14 new deaths in Mongolia

Keep worsening. The Chinese vaccine cannot help.

3,667 new cases and 32 new deaths in Thailand

Worsening again!

Covid: UK at ‘pre-peak stage of third wave’, warn scientific advisers

Scientific advisers in Wales believe the UK is at the “pre-peak stage of a third wave”, first minister Mark Drakeford has warned.

Mr Drakeford told a press conference eight out of 10 new cases of coronavirus in Wales are believed to be from the Delta variant.

“In just a few weeks, the Delta variant has entered Wales and spread quickly throughout the country,” he said.

“There is a sustained and accelerating pattern of transmission, not just in the north and southeast of Wales but in all parts of the country.

“That means that we are, once again, facing a serious public health situation. Our scientific advisers believe the United Kingdom is now at the pre-peak stage of a third wave of this pandemic.

“Wales may be two to three weeks behind what is happening in England and in Scotland, where tens of thousands of cases have been confirmed, where there is widespread transmission and reports of increased hospital admissions as well.”

Mr Drakeford said both Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson had paused plans to relax coronavirus restrictions due to the Delta variant.

"Today, I have to announce that we will be doing the same in Wales," he added.

The Welsh government will pause further easing of coronavirus restrictions for four weeks to allow for more people to be vaccinated, Mr Drakeford told reporters.

He said this would help Wales, which has the lowest Covid-19 rates in the UK, “manage the impact of this new wave of infections”.

“A four-week delay could help to reduce the peak number of daily hospital admissions by up to half,” Mr Drakeford said.

Delta variant infections in the UK have jumped by 78 per cent in just one week, according to the latest Public Health England (PHE) data.

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases involving this more transmissible variant - also known as the Indian variant - rose by 33,630 to 75,953 over seven days, with general coronavirus infections now at their highest levels in the UK since mid-February.

ファイザー製ワクチン 既感染者は1回接種で十分な抗体
6/17(木) 17:45配信

長崎大学病院の研究で、新型コロナに感染したことがある人はファイザー社製のワクチンを１回接種すれば、感染予防に十分な抗体ができることがわかりました。

研究は新型コロナに感染したことがある４９人と、感染したことがない１１３人にファイザーのワクチンを接種し、前後の抗体の量を測定して行われました。測定結果によりますと、感染したことがある人は１回目の接種から７日後には抗体が感染予防に十分な数値に達することがわかりました。一方、２回目の接種後は数値に変化はありませんでした。また、感染したことがない人は２回の接種を受けることで、感染予防に十分な数値まで達することが確認されたということです。

感染したことがある人への２回目の接種の必要性について、研究グループの栁原克紀教授は「２回目を打たなくていい可能性もあるが、さらなる研究が必要なため、現時点ではルール通り２回接種すべき」としています。長崎大学病院では新型コロナの抗体がどのくらい持続するのかについても、来年３月まで研究を続ける方針だということです。

NBC長崎放送

新冠肺炎增127本土、20死

指揮中心表示，今日新增之127例本土病例，為60例男性、67例女性，年齡介於未滿5歲至90多歲，發病日介於今年6月3日至6月18日。個案分佈以新北市81例最多，其次為台北市30例，桃園市8例，新竹縣3例，新竹市、基隆市各2例，臺中市1例。其中雙北地區以外縣市16例中，12例為已知感染源、4例關聯不明；相關疫情調查持續進行中。

17,906 new cases and 466 new deaths in Russia

Worsening rapidly in Moscow so the whole country is worsening.
Out of this 17,906 new cases, 9120 new cases are in Moscow!


Since more than half ot the new cases are ib Moscow, we cannot use the national data provided in various international websites to understand the trend in Russia. So my earlier data analysis using the Russia national data provided by Worldometers is useless.


I hope I have time to study the data of the Russia capitol, Moscow.

The lower left graph is the new cases time series provided by the Russian Government. Anyone would like to study the data of Moscow?

The address of the Russian Government's website for Covid-19 is
[url]https://стопкоронавирус.рф/[/url]

Singapore

As of 19 June 2021, 12pm, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed 14 new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 infection. 10 are linked to previous cases, amongst whom 7 have already been placed on quarantine, and 3 were detected through surveillance. The remaining 4 cases are currently unlinked. Based on our investigations so far, the cases are in the community, and there are no new cases in the dormitories.

2. In addition, there are 7 imported cases, who have already been placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore. All of them are returning Singaporeans or Singapore Permanent Residents.

3. In total, there are 21 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore today.

4. We are still working through the details of the cases, and further updates will be shared via the MOH press release that will be issued tonight.


MINISTRY OF HEALTH
19 JUNE 2021

新型コロナウイルス感染症の現在の状況と厚生労働省の対応について（令和３年６月19日版）
令和３年６月19日現在の新型コロナウイルス感染症に関する状況及び厚生労働省の対応についてお知らせします。

国内での新型コロナウイルス感染症の感染者は782,491例、死亡者は14,365名となりました。
また、入院治療等を要する者は21,210名、退院又は療養解除となった者は746,431名となりました。


１．国内の状況について
令和３年６月19日0:00現在、検査陽性者782,491例が確認されている。
・検査陽性者(国内事例779,432例、チャーター便帰国者事例15例、空港・海港検疫3,044例)

變種

烏干達9人奧運代表團抵達日本 一人病毒檢測呈陽性

東京奧運下月揭幕，各地選手陸續抵達日本準備，其中烏干達9名代表隊成員，昨晚抵達成田機場，其中一人的病毒檢測結果呈陽性，要入住政府的指定檢疫設施，其餘8名成員繼續前往大阪泉佐野市的訓練營。

官員表示，烏干達的運動員和工作人員，出發前往日本前，已經接種疫苗，運動員將參與拳擊、舉重和游泳賽事。

Brazil

Coronavirus Cases: 17,883,750
Deaths: 500,868 The second country surpasses 500,000 deaths

巴西累計死於新型肺炎的人數突破50萬，是全球第二多，僅次於美國。

報道指，由於總統博爾索納羅拒絕支持實施防疫措施，加上最先在亞馬遜地區發現的變種病毒Gamma傳播力更強，令疫情持續，上星期平均每日新增7萬宗確診個案，大部分州的重症病床使用率維持八成以上。

全國多個城市星期六有民眾上街，抗議博爾索納羅抗疫不力。

Reminder: What we have said more than 1 year ago:

Those countries that have Sunday/Monday effect also display this trend:
The daily new cases increases from the beginning of a week towards the end of a week. So we cannot say the situation is worsening just because the daily new cases have been increasing from Monday to Friday. Brazil demonstrates the strongest of this effect among all countries. The effect is so strong in Brzail that even the 7-day moving average still show this weekly oscillation as the above graph shown. For Brazil, the 3-day moving average is completely useless as the following graph shown:


Please notice the large oscillation in the above 3-day moving average curve. This is the reason why I taught the world to use 7-day moving average rather than the usually better 3-day, 4-day or 5-day moving average last year.

The 7-day moving average can solve both problems of Sunday/Monday effect and the increasing reported new cases toward the weekend.

Russia is notice exception in that both effects do not appear in Russian's data.

Taiwan is improving rapidly

The following 7-day moving average shows very clearly that Taiwan is improving rapidly:


Notice that the data from Taiwan shows both the Sunday/Monday effect and the increasing reported new cases toward the end of a week.

So remember this: the increased reported new cases from 15 June to 18 June (Friday) do not mean that the situation is worsening. Actually, the situation is improving rapidly in Taiwan.

I hope you all can remember what we said more than one year ago in the 【無了期唔知幾時完嘅武漢肺炎】國際疫情討論區 series.
This series of posts MAY be the best in the world!

We should believe ourselves that we are really that good.

BioNTech執行長警告：Delta變種病毒恐導致第四波疫情

據報導，BioNTech 執行長 Ugur Sahin 在週三 (16 日) 警告表示，最初在印度所發現的 Delta 變種病毒 (B.1.617.2)，很可能會導致疫情捲土重來，使某些地區遭遇第四波疫情。

Sahin 表示：「近期在印度發現 Delta 變種病毒，可能導致疫情重燃。在英國，大約有 50% 的人已經接種了第二劑疫苗，但是 Delta 相關的確診病例數卻仍在增加。如果我們不小心謹慎，某些地區可能會遭遇到第四波疫情。」

新冠肺炎今增107例本土、2例境外 增11死、累計549人病逝

指揮中心表示，今日新增之107例本土病例，為57例男性、50例女性，年齡介於未滿5歲至100多歲，發病日介於今（2021）年6月4日至6月19日。個案分佈以新北市44例最多，其次為台北市31例，桃園市16例，台中市6例，新竹縣4例，苗栗縣3例，彰化縣、宜蘭縣及基隆市各1例。其中雙北地區以外縣市32例中，27例為已知感染源、2例關聯不明、3例疫調中；相關疫情調查持續進行中。

指揮中心說明，今日新增11例死亡個案，為男性5位、女性6位，年齡介於40多歲至90多歲，發病日介於5月14日至6月15日，確診日介於5月18日至6月16日，死亡日介於6月15日至6月18日。

Keep improving!

全台67人接種後猝死！昨增18例死亡 「9人死因出爐」1人驗出新冠病毒

台灣新冠肺炎本土疫情遲遲未降溫，許多人都把廣泛施打疫苗，當成解除三級警戒的關鍵利器。但近日國內長者開打AZ疫苗，已陸續傳出多起在打完疫苗後，老人家猝死的案例，引發人心惶惶。對此，中央流行疫情指揮中心今（20日）表示，昨（19）日接種後死亡案件新增18件，目前已有9例死亡案件送司法相驗解剖。

More than 350 Indonesian healthcare workers vaccinated with China's Sinovac vaccine got COVID-19 and dozens are hospitalized, raising questions about the vaccine's efficacy on variants

Details at https://us.yahoo.com/news/more-350-indonesian-healthcare-workers-033630480.html

樓主:

Thank you for creating 國際疫情討論區 series so that I can learn so much from other Hongkongers and ex-Hongkongers who have migrated to other countries years ago.


I can still remember:
(1) We all waited for the Italian data coming out at almost 3:00 A.M. (Hong Kong time).
(2) We talked about the smell of the 'tude' in London. ("tude" = MTR in Hong Kong = subway in U.S.A).
(3) We talked about going to work in New York State from New Jersey, U.S.A.
(4) and many others so that we all know much more about the other parts of our planet, the Earth.

I believe that you have used BNO and have started a new life in U.K. that you don't have time to talk at 國際疫情討論區09. I will try my best to keep this post going.

Thanks again for creating this series of posts for us.

港大研究： 科興抗體水平低到驗唔到

https://lihkg.com/thread/2582637/page/1

沙利文：若中國不合作調查病毒源頭將面對國際孤立

美國國家安全顧問沙利文說，若中國不合作進一步調查新冠病毒源頭，將面對國際孤立。

沙利文接受美國傳媒訪問時說，現時未到發出威脅或最後通牒的階段，會繼續在國際社會爭取支持，若最終中國拒絕履行國際義務，美國與盟友磋商，考慮如何回應。

沙利文說，美國不會只依賴中國，除了世衛調查，美國本身亦會分析，包括透過情報部門以及與盟友合作，追查到底。

沙利文又讚揚總統拜登，促使七國集團其他國家，對病毒源頭展開透明調查方面，向中國施壓。他說，這是疫情爆發以來，首次團結民主國家發出一致聲音，前總統特朗普未能做到。