Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 6th April 2020
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Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 6th April 2020
This update will be published daily at 12pm GMT and aims to provide clinicians and the public with an overview of the latest data, guidelines, key publications and policy around COVID-19, with links to essential resources and information.
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Global Impact of COVID-19 to Date
As of 6th April 09:00 (GMT)
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COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases
As of 5th April 09:00 (GMT)
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Source: World Health Organisation
COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map
As of 6th April 09:00 GMT
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Total UK COVID-19 Cases
As of 5th April
NB: Public Health England has now moved to a different reporting time for UK COVID-19 fatalities, as family consent is now needed to release mortality statistics. Hence the reported figures may not actually be the deaths that have taken place over the past 24 hours, meaning caution needs to be exercised when comparing figures from one day to the next.
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Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Cumulative UK Cases
As of 5th April
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Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Daily UK Cases
As of 5th April
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Source: Public Health England
Italy and Spain's daily death tolls are plateauing, but in the UK and US every day brings more new deaths than the last
As of 5th April 2020
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Source: Financial Times
Confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Europe, Middle East and North Africa
As of 6th April 2020
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Source: The Guardian
Coronavirus case trajectories
As of 6th April 2020
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Source: informationisbeautiful
Coronavirus death trajectories
As of 6th April 2020
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Source: informationisbeautiful
Infection & Fatality Rates by Country
As of 6th April 2020
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Source: informationisbeautiful
COVID-19 Key Data
As of 31st March 2020
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Source: informationisbeautiful
Vaccines and Treatment in Development for COVID-19
As of 4th April 2020
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Source: Artis Ventures
USA
Exponential growth in the past two weeks has made the US the newest COVID-19 epicenter
As of 3rd April 2020
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Source: McKinsey & Company
US government orders 29m doses of hydroxychloroquine
Coronavirus situation in the US
As of 6th April 2020
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Source: Financial Times
Italy
The number of new cases has trended slowly down over the last 10-14 days
As of 3rd April 2020
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Source: McKinsey & Company
Latest COVID-19 Publications
Some key recent publications to be aware of:
Covid-19 in Critically Ill Patients in the Seattle Region — Case Series
Published 30th March 2020
This multicenter report describes the demographic characteristics, coexisting conditions, imaging findings, and outcomes among critically ill patients with Covid-19 in the Seattle area.
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Author: Dr Daniel Livingstone, MedShr - Health Education England Fellow
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