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

Source: Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases

As of 19th April 09:00 (GMT)

Source: World Health Organisation

COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map

As of 19th April 09:00 GMT

Source: Johns Hopkins University & Medicine

Total UK COVID-19 Cases

As of 13th 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 18th April

Source: Public Health England

COVID-19 Daily UK Cases

As of 18th April

Source: Public Health England

COVID-19 Key Data

Source: Financial Times

Source: Financial Times

Source: Information is beautiful

Latest Developments

Africa

COVID-19: Rwanda, DR Congo make mask wearing mandatory

WHO to Africa: COVID-19 containment is possible, ‘Don’t lose hope’

COVID-19 Corona Virus: South African Resource Portal

Amref COVID-19 Africa Information Centre

WHO Africa Dashboard: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Asia

COVID-19 in Asia: A Country-By-Country Guide

Indonesia Now Has The Most Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In Southeast Asia

ASEAN leaders meet online to tackle COVID-19

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

Channel News Asia: COVID-19 map

Middle East

Turkey's Covid-19 cases overtake Iran to become highest in Middle East

COVID-19 is exacerbating neo-colonialism, including in Egypt

Europe

How are Europe's front pages covering the COVID-19 pandemic?

Europe’s PEPP-PT COVID-19 contacts tracing standard push could be squaring up for a fight with Apple and Google

United Kingdom

A report has been published by the Sunday Times into the initial UK government failings to deal with COVID-19 (subscription required)

Medical staff face weeks without protective gowns

BBC's Covid-19 reporters: 'I wanted to show the reality but was deeply troubled by what I saw’

Coronavirus: five months on, what scientists know about Covid-19

UK Government Advice

USA

Operation reopen America: are we about to witness a second historic failure of leadership from Trump?

Death penalty states urged to release stockpiled drugs for Covid-19 patients

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website

US Coronavirus (COVID-19) website

Latest COVID-19 Publications

Some key recent publications to be aware of:

Association of Public Health Interventions With the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan, China

Published 10th April 2020

Study correlating rates of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infections with public health interventions in Wuhan, China, From 8th December 2019 to 8th March 2020. A series of multifaceted public health interventions was temporally associated with improved control of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. These findings may inform public health policy in other countries and regions.