Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 13th April 2020

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Global Impact of COVID-19 to Date

As of 13th April 09:00 (GMT)

Source: Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases

As of 13th April 09:00 (GMT)

Source: World Health Organisation

COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map

As of 13th April 09:00 GMT

Source: Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

Total UK COVID-19 Cases

As of 12th 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 12th April

Source: Public Health England

COVID-19 Daily UK Cases

As of 12th April

Source: Public Health England

Source: Nature Middle East (last updated 9th April 2020)

COVID-19 Key Data

Source: informationisbeautiful

Source: informationisbeautiful

Latest Developments

Africa

Ethiopia coronavirus: Cases reach 74; ventilator, regional testing gets boost

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

South Asia Must Ramp Up COVID-19 Action to Protect People, Revive Economies

ASEAN Briefing: The Coronavirus in Asia and ASEAN – Live Updates by Country

Channel News Asia: COVID-19 map

Middle East

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

Coronavirus latest: Spain begins lifting lockdown as Covid-19 outbreak slows

€15.6 billion for global EU coronavirus response; EU calls on Member States to ensure availability of medicines

Poorer Nations in Europe’s East Could Teach the West a Lesson on Coronavirus

United Kingdom

Coronavirus UK live: Lockdown measures 'to be reviewed this week' as row over PPE continues

Coronavirus: Six ways the lockdown has changed the UK

Coronavirus: 'Sombre day' as UK deaths hit 10,000

UK Government Advice

USA

US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website

US Coronavirus (COVID-19) website

Latest COVID-19 Publications

Some key recent publications to be aware of:

Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19 infection: systematic review and critical appraisal

Published: 7th April 2020

This review indicates that proposed models are poorly reported, at high risk of bias, and their reported performance is probably optimistic. Immediate sharing of well documented individual participant data from covid-19 studies is needed for collaborative efforts to develop more rigorous prediction models and validate existing ones.

COVID-19 outbreak: less stethoscope, more ultrasound

Danilo Buonsenso, Davide Pata, Antonio Chiaretti

Published: March 20, 2020

The authors of this correspondence site the importance for public health of preventing healthcare related spread of COVID-19.  Replacing traditional assessment: stethoscope examination followed by radiological investigations, with a single ultrasound examination could reduce exposure to healthcare professionals and spread within hospital settings, they argue.

Daily Update by Samantha Goh, MedShr Open Editorial Team, Medical Education Teaching Fellow