Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 5th April 2020
Coronavirus COVID-19 Daily Update 5th 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 5th April 10:00 (GMT)
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COVID-19 Cumulative Global Cases
As of 4th April 09:00 (GMT)
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Source: World Health Organisation
COVID-19 Global Active Cases Map
As of 5th April 10:00 GMT
Total UK COVID-19 Cases
As of 4th 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.
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Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Cumulative UK Cases
As of 4th April
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Source: Public Health England
COVID-19 Daily UK Cases
As of 4th April
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Source: Public Health England
Latest Developments
Confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Europe, Middle East and North Africa
As of 5th April 2020
Source: The Guardian
Coronavirus case trajectories
As of 5th April 2020
Source: informationisbeautiful
Coronavirus death trajectories
As of 5th April 2020
Source: informationisbeautiful
Infection & Fatality Rates by Country
As of 5th April 2020
Source: informationisbeautiful
COVID-19 Key Data
As of 31st March 2020
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Source: informationisbeautiful
Italy and Spain's daily death tolls are plateauing, but in the UK and US every day brings more new deaths than the last
As of 4th April 2020
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Source: Financial Times
Vaccines and Treatment in Development for COVID-19
As of 1st April 2020
Source: Artis Ventures
Spain
Spain records smallest rate of increase in infections since start of crisis
Spain Ministry of Health Website
USA
Trump tells Americans to expect ‘a lot of death’
China sends 1,000 ventilators to New York
Coronavirus situation in the US
As of 5th April 2020
Source: Financial Times
United Kingdom
Hancock: you've got to follow the rules or we'll ban all exercise outside
UK Government Advice
Latest COVID-19 Publications
Some key recent publications to be aware of:
Clinical Characteristics of 54 medical staff with COVID-19: A retrospective study in a single center in Wuhan, China
Published 29th March 2020
54 cases of SARS-Cov-2 infected medical staff from Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, between January 7th to February 11th of 2020 were analysed in this retrospective study. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics were compared between different groups by statistical method.
A Comparative Study of Chest Computed Tomography Features in Young and Older Adults With Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19)
Published 31st March 2020
This study analysed the most common CT findings of pneumonia caused by new coronavirus in younger patients (60 and younger) and older adults (older than 60). The chest CT images of 72 symptomatic patients with COVID-19 were analysed retrospectively, including 44 younger patients and 28 older patients. CT findings including density (pure ground-glass opacities, ground-glass opacities with consolidation, consolidation), the number of lobes involved, lesion distribution, and the main accompanying signs were compared.
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