Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 21st April 2020

Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 21st 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 21st April 09:00 (GMT)

COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases

As of 20th April 11:00 (GMT)

COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map

As of 21st April 09:00 GMT

Total UK COVID-19 Cases

As of 20th 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.

COVID-19 Cumulative UK Cases

As of 20th April

COVID-19 Daily UK Cases

As of 20th April

Covid-19 outbreaks in Arab countries

Last updated 16th April 2020

COVID-19 in the African Region

As of 20th April 11:00 (GMT)

COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

As of 20th April 11:00 (GMT)

COVID-19 Key Data

 Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19

Source: The Lancet


Latest Developments

Africa

Asia

Middle East

Europe

United Kingdom

USA

Latest COVID-19 Publications

Some key recent publications to be aware of:

Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19

Published 15th April 2020


SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding may begin 2 to 3 days before the appearance of the first symptoms. Study analysing the temporal patterns of viral shedding in 94 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 and modeled COVID-19 infectiousness profiles from a separate sample of 77 infector–infectee transmission pairs.

Sarah Gilbert: carving a path towards a COVID-19 vaccine

Published 18 April 2020

Perspective from Prof. Sarah Gilbret, Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford in the UK. About how close we are to a vaccine to control the pandemic.

Protecting workers aged 60–69 years from COVID-19

Published 16th April 2020

Mortality data from the COVID-19 pandemic shows that nearly two thirds (64%) of the remaining deaths occur in the 60–69 years age group. This age group is particularly at risk if they work in health-care, for example frontline health-care workers and those who have been encouraged to come out of retirement to assist.



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

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