Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 2nd April 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 2nd 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 2nd April 10:00 (GMT)
COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases
As of 1st April 09:00 (GMT)
Source: World Health Organisation
COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map
As of 2nd April 10:00 GMT
Total UK COVID-19 Cases
As of 1st April
Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Cumulative UK Cases
As of 1st April
Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Daily UK Cases
As of 1st April
Source: Public Health England
Latest Developments
Three new countries/territories/areas reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours: Botswana, Burundi, and Sierra Leone.
WHO recognizes the importance of addressing the needs of refugees and migrants when preparing for or responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus deaths and nationwide lockdowns:
Source: New scientist
Timeline of new confirmed cases worldwide
Source: Financial Times
USA
Coronavirus situation in US
Source: Financial Times
Source: The Guardian and Johns Hopkins
Spain
Spain's Health Staff Are Catching The Coronavirus As Protective Gear Runs Short
Covid-19 workers in Spain: 'You can feel the fear in the air'
Latest COVID-19 Publications
Some key recent publications to be aware of:
Can routine laboratory tests discriminate SARS‐CoV‐2 infected pneumonia from other causes of community acquired pneumonia?
Published 31st March
A study of 221 community acquired penumonia (CAP) patients and 84 COVID-19 patients found COVID-19 patients had significantly lower mean values for total white cell count, neutrophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, red cell distribution width, platelet count, and PCT than patients with CAP. COVID-19 patients had significantly higher mean values for hemoglobin, hematocrit and total protein than CAP patients.
Figure 3. Receiver operator characteristic curves for nine parameters (A), and another six parameters (B), and combinations of the parameters (C), comparing data for CAP patients with that for COVID-19 patients. The ROC curves and AUC (figures 3) demonstrated that RDW, MCHC, and HGB had good discriminatory ability.
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Published by Dr Rachel Coles, Education Fellow and Paediatric Trainee.
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