Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 12th 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 12th April 09:00 (GMT)

Source: Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases

As of 12th April 09:00 (GMT)

Source: World Health Organisation

COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map

As of 12th April 09:00 GMT

Source: Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

Total UK COVID-19 Cases

As of 11th 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.

Source: Public Health England

COVID-19 Cumulative UK Cases

As of 11th April

Source: Public Health England

COVID-19 Daily UK Cases

As of 11th April

Source: Public Health England

Source: Nature Middle East (last updated 2nd April 2020)

COVID-19 Key Data

Source: informationisbeautiful

Source: informationisbeautiful

Latest Developments

Africa

Tackling COVID-19 in Africa

Life in quarantine after detecting Nigeria’s first COVID-19 case

A battle plan for ensuring global food supplies during the COVID-19 crisis

Amref COVID-19 Africa Information Centre

WHO Africa Dashboard: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Asia

Coronavirus: Inside India's busiest Covid-19 hospital

Wuhan celebrates its ‘liberation’ as Covid-19 lockdown ends

Middle East

UN Middle East envoys urge greater action on COVID-19 ceasefire appeal

Coronavirus the Egyptian way

Despite school closures, children in Syria find ways to continue learning

A silver lining for research at a time of pandemic

Coronavirus in the Middle East: everything you need to know about Covid-19

Europe

Europe’s Virus Toll in Italy and U.K. Keeps Focus on Lockdowns

Coronavirus: Spain records lowest number of dead for 19 days

United Kingdom

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson 'owes his life to NHS staff'

UK coronavirus live: refuse to treat patients without PPE 'as last resort', says nursing body, as three nurses die

UK Government Advice

USA

Coronavirus in the US: Latest COVID-19 news and case counts

'The curve is continuing to flatten': Cuomo says New York coronavirus hospitalizations have hit an apex

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website

US Coronavirus (COVID-19) website

Latest COVID-19 Publications

Some key recent publications to be aware of:

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 with or without diabetes: A systematic search and a narrative review with a special reference to India and other developing countries

Published online ahead of print
Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews

Considering minimal risk upon use, a long experience of use in other diseases, cost-effectiveness and easy availability across India, we propose that both these drugs are worthy of fast track clinical trial for treatment, and may be carefully considered for clinical use as experimental drugs.

A role for CT in COVID-19? What data really tell us so far

Michael D Hope, Constantine A Raptis, Amar Shah, Mark M Hammer, Travis S Henry on behalf of six signatories

Published: March 27, 2020

The authors of this correspondence appraise the evidence which suggested CT could have a pivotal role in COVID-19 diagnosis and highlight some of the pitfalls.  Centrally, CT findings identified in COVID-19 are not specific to this pathogen, and are found in many other disease processes (infective and non-infective). Additionally, when groups of COVID-19 patients who had not been admitted to hospital were studied, most did not have CT changes.   They caution that CT scanners could become vectors of transmission if used inappropriately.