Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 31st March 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 31st March 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 31st March 09:30 (GMT)
COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases
As of 30th March 09:00 (GMT)
Source: World Health Organisation
COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map
As of 31st March 09:30 GMT
Total UK COVID-19 Cases
As of 30th March
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 30th March
Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Daily UK Cases
As of 30th March
Source: Public Health England
Confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Europe, Middle East and North Africa
As of 31st March 2020
Source: The Guardian
Coronavirus deaths in Italy, Spain and the US are increasing more rapidly than they did in China
As of 30th March 2020
Source: Financial Times
New York, Catalonia and Madrid could pass Lombardia as the worst affected subnational regions
As of 30th March 2020
Source: Financial Times
Country by country: how coronavirus case trajectories compare
As of 30th March 2020
Source: Financial Times
Outbreaks are now underway in dozens of other countries, with some on the same trajectory as Italy
As of 30th March 2020
Source: Financial Times
USA
US deaths pass grim milestone, as hospital ship arrives in New York
Coronavirus situation in the US
As of 31st March 2020
Source: Financial Times
United Kingdom
ONS figures show more deaths related to Covid-19 in England and Wales than previously reported
UK Government Advice
Latest COVID-19 Publications
Some key recent publications to be aware of:
Clinical and virological data of the first cases of COVID-19 in Europe: a case series
Published 27th March 2020
This article describes the detailed clinical features of five patients with COVID-19 aligned with the quantitative severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral RNA load from nasopharyngeal and other selected sampling sites.
SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Upper Respiratory Specimens of Infected Patients
Published 19th March 2020
This article reported that patients with COVID-19 with more severe disease requiring intensive care unit admission had high viral RNA loads at 10 days and beyond, after symptom onset.
Author: Dr Daniel Livingstone, MedShr - Health Education England Fellow
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