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)
Source: World Health Organisation
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.
Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Cumulative UK Cases
As of 20th April
Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Daily UK Cases
As of 20th April
Source: Public Health England
Covid-19 outbreaks in Arab countries
Last updated 16th April 2020
Source: Nature Middle East
COVID-19 in the African Region
As of 20th April 11:00 (GMT)
Source: World Health Organisation
COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
As of 20th April 11:00 (GMT)
Source: World Health Organisation
COVID-19 Key Data
Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of COVID-19
Source: information is beautiful
Source: The Lancet
Latest Developments
Africa
Coronavirus in South Africa: The lull before the surge?
Coronavirus: Why lockdowns may not be the answer in 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
Singapore sets new daily record for coronavirus cases
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: Saudi Arabia reports 1,088 new cases, 5 deaths
COVID-19 is exacerbating neo-colonialism, including in Egypt
Europe
Coronavirus: Germany relaxes shop closures
Armenia receives EU-supported personal protective equipment to fight COVID-19
How are Europe's front pages covering the COVID-19 pandemic?
United Kingdom
Coronavirus: Remembering the NHS workers who have died
Fit testing face masks to avoid transmission during the coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus: Plasma treatment to be trialled
Public Health England: Considerations for acute personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages
NHS Supply Chain: Latest Updates on COVID-19 and Managing Demand for Products
USA
Coronavirus: Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
Coronavirus: President Trump defends tweets against US states' lockdowns
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:
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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