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US
Cases, + 58,858 = 3,355,457
Deaths, + 315 = 135,235 (4%)
CDC forecasts
140,000 and 160,000 total reported COVID-19 deaths by August 1st
Increasing death rates expected in
Arizona, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and West Virginia
California
Cases, + 8,000 = 329,169
Deaths, 7,040
LA County
Closed, indoor venues including non-critical offices
Oil tanker
Florida
Cases, 278,667
Deaths, +132
Miami, 25% positive
Dr. Aileen Marty
We are exploding
Lack of unified approach
Population was not convinced of serious nature of the risk
Beaches, bars, protests, masks
Lockdown required
Not on the table
New York
Quarantine from 22 states
14 days
Provide information at the airport, enforced?
Driving, online form
UK
New cases, England only, based on positive tests
4th July, lockdown measures eased
1st July, 605
2nd July, 556
3rd July, 539
4th July, 388
5th July, 434
6th July, 644
7th July, 550
8th July, 634
9th July, 649
10th July, 442
11th July, 317
12th July, 225
13th July, 41
14th July, 398
Kings College
1, 471 new cases per day
Skin rash should be considered as a fourth key sign of COVID-19
South Africa
Cases, 298,292
Deaths, 43,46
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Staff on strike or sick
Perinatal deaths
Senior doctors
‘an epic failure of a deeply corrupt system’
‘institutional burn-out… a sense of chronic exploitation’
‘the department of health essentially bankrupt, and a system on its knees with no strategic management’
‘There’s a huge amount of fear, and of mental and emotional fatigue’
‘We were working with a skeleton staff even before Covid-19 and now we’re down another 30%’
Services are starting to crumble under the strain
COVID has opened up all the chronic cracks in the system
Patients had been ‘fighting for oxygen’ at Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth
‘like a war situation’
Blood and waste on the floors
Lack of Personal Protective Equipment
Oxygen shortages
Severe shortage of ambulances
No ventilation
Patients sleeping ‘under newspaper’
Rats
Senior nurse
‘Every day I come to work in fear’
‘The infection numbers are going up’
‘Every day we’ve got chaos’
Maternity
Lot of pregnant women all over the wards
Mothers and infants died.
‘I was personally involved in the delivery of two dead infants and know there were more. This is very unusual. To have several mummies and babies dying in one week in one hospital is totally unheard of and unacceptable’
Probably caused by lack of health care
Pregnant women, waiting for days, sometimes lying in corridors, for urgent surgery
Confirmed reports of an unusual number of stillborn infants in recent weeks
Provincial health department was generally seen as so inept and dysfunctional that private donors, businesses and charitable funds anxious to help in the fight against Covid-19 were refusing to deal directly with it
President Cyril Ramaphosa
“the storm is upon us”.
Australia
Cases, + 259 = 10,495
Deaths, 111
10,000 Victorians attended the Black Lives Matter protest in Melbourne on June 6.
Victorian authorities issued a stern warning to people not to attend.
“We’re in the middle of a global pandemic and we’ve all come so far.”
Nine public housing towers in Melbourne were put in a hard lockdown for five days from July 4
1,800 cases of the virus are currently active in the state
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