China reports first COVID-19 death in six months; global deaths, cases drop in a week

Masks are seen on statues in a shopping district in Beijing, China, on Oct. 7. The country reported its first death from COVID-19, a man from Beijing. Photo by Mark R. Cristino/EPA-EFE

As of Sunday, the cumulative number was 643,006,073. Cases on Sunday stood at 276,448. The last time the number of cases exceeded 1 million was on July 31.

The death toll fell 12% to 8,145 as of Sunday, bringing the cumulative death toll to 6,625,837.

The 7-day moving average of deaths fell to 1,163, the lowest level since 1,074 on March 21, 2020, 10 days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic Worldometers.info. On Saturday, 562 deaths were reported.

Some countries do not report data on weekends. Updated weekly by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Recorded as 3,847,809 cases at the peak of the Omicron subvariant on January 21, and 16,890 deaths at the peak of the Delta subvariant on January 21, 2021.

in China, the death toll has reached 5,227. On May 26, a death case was reported in Shanghai. The figure was 4,636 before a spike in April necessitating a lockdown, and it has remained at that level since early February 2021.

Chinese state media Beijing Daily reported that a man started coughing on Nov. 11 and was confirmed to have mild symptoms of the infection two days later. His condition worsened from a severe lung infection and he suffered septic shock before dying, the report said.

It did not say whether the man had been vaccinated.

The vaccination rate in China is 92%, at least once.

In mid-August, the booster injection rate for the elderly in China was only about 68%, while in Japan, which also has a large elderly population, it exceeded 90%.

“If millions of people over the age of 80 are not vaccinated, it will pose a potential risk,” Jin Dongyan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, told the media. South China Morning Post“The most important thing is public education. You should give the public the right information. A lot of people are still at the initial level of knowledge about Covid.” [2020] Wuhan outbreak. So this needs to be better explained. ”

On Sunday, China reported 24,215 cases, compared with 24,263 the previous day. This count includes symptomatic counts.

The number of confirmed cases stands at 2,267. There were 1,711 a week ago, 588 two weeks ago, and 5,659 on April 29, all confirmed cases. Asymptomatic cases were reported separately in mainland China.

Guangzhou, a megalopolis in the south, accounts for one-third.

China, which has a “zero tolerance” policy on the coronavirus, Many restrictions have been relaxed.

The government has limited contact tracing and rolled back rules that required people to stay home for weeks simply because they lived in the neighborhood where a case was found.

People entering China will now be required to quarantine for five days in a hotel, followed by three days at home, instead of the previous 10-day quarantine, seven of which in a hotel or government facility.

There was a recent outbreak at Apple’s largest iPhone factory in the city of Zhengzhou. First there was the lockdown, now there is a shortage of workers.

Central China officials recruited Party members, civil servants and veterans help Foxconn, the Taiwanese assembler of Apple’s iPhones.

Like mainland China, Hong Kong has adopted a “zero tolerance” approach to the coronavirus, easing strict restrictions including hotel quarantine for arrivals from other countries.

Hong Kong reported 13 deaths and 7,736 cases on Sunday, surpassing the previous record of 79,876 on March 3.

start monday, Hong Kong plans to reduce the number of PCR tests for international and Taiwanese arrivals from four to two starting next Monday. Arrivals are now required to undergo a PCR test upon arrival at the airport, followed by tests on days two, four and six, and a daily rapid antigen test until day seven.

Residents and visitors face a $639 fine for not wearing a mask in public.

According to Worldometers.info, Asia reported 51.8% of global cases in the past week and rose 9% to 197,189,213 cases. The continent hosts 59% of the world’s population.

Also on the rise: 64,776,721 in South America, up 30%, and Africa, 12,695,857, up 17%.

North America decreased by 28% to 118,681,480, Europe decreased by 10% to 236,813,024, the highest in the world, and Oceania decreased by 11% to 12,844,057.

Asia was the only continent to report an increase in deaths: 13% in Asia to 1,494,768.

North America decreased by 23% to 1,560,613, South America decreased by 22% to 1,334,532, Africa decreased by 18% to 257,994, Europe decreased by 15% to 1,955,918, the highest level in the world, and Oceania decreased by 13% to 21,997.

Japan, South Korea, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia and France have reported increases in both deaths and cases over the past week.

Japan reported the most weekly cases at 584,247, up 17%, and was third with 647 deaths, up 6%.

South Korea had 366,990 infections, an increase of 7%, ranking second in the world, and 373 deaths, an increase of 42%, ranking ninth.

Germany, the country with the most weekly cases in recent weeks, fell to fifth place seven weeks after a 60% increase, with 172,011, an 18% drop, and had the second-highest number of deaths at 1,062, two weeks after an 88% increase No changes are obtained. Germany had the second-highest death toll at 1,025, down 3% four weeks ago and up 88%.

The only other increases in cases among countries with at least 25,000 people: France 53% to 234,617 cases, third, Brazil 68% to 105,340, Australia 8% to 68,169, ninth and Hong Kong 34 %, reached 49,316 cases, ranking tenth, Indonesia 19% ranked 11th with 46,568 cases, Russia ranked 13th with 3% with 36,424 cases, Austria ranked 14th with 4% with 26,551 people ranked.

Decreases over the past week in descending order were the U.S. down 27% to 188,703, Italy down 15% to sixth place at 153,345, Taiwan down 14% to seventh place at 131,088, and Chile down 16% to 12 points to 39,013 .

Among countries that reported more than 100 deaths and increases in the past week: France 9% ranked fifth with 444, Taiwan 16% ranked seventh with 406, Indonesia 7% ranked tenth with 280, Spain 71 % ranked 243rd, Australia 21% 14th, 105th.

Other declines are the United States 17%, ranking 1 1,560, the United Kingdom 36%, ranking 4 509, Russia 2%, ranking 6 431, Italy 22%, ranking 8 379, Brazil 18%, ranking 11 259, Chile 6% ranking 13 182 70% of Canada is in the 15th 102nd place.

The United States leads with 1,102,505 deaths and 100,162,519 infections. The country also holds the world record for new daily cases of 906,806 on January 7. Brazil had the second-highest death toll of 688,994, including 36 on Saturday, and Brazil’s fifth-highest death toll of 35,060,020.

India has the second-highest number of cases at 44,669,015, including 492 on Sunday, the lowest since 437 on March 31, 2020, and 530,574 deaths, including the latest four, of which Three cases were checked with Kerald, one death was reported every Monday and Tuesday, and the last death was zero on March 24, 2020.

India recorded a daily death toll of 4,529 on May 18, 2021, not adjusted by region.

In the top ten deaths, Russia ranks fourth with 391,454, including 59 on Sunday; Mexico ranks fifth with 330,444, no weekend data; Peru ranks sixth with 217,229; the United Kingdom ranks seventh with 196,241; Italy is eighth with 180,518; Indonesia is ninth with 159,379, including Sunday and France is 10th with 158,163 and 31.

Among the top ten cases, France ranked third with 37,334,635 cases and 47,088 cases on Saturday; Germany ranked fourth with 36,205,405 cases; South Korea ranked sixth with 25,558,765 cases and 46,011 cases on Sunday; Italy ranked seventh with 24,031,538 cases; Japan ranked ninth with 23,977,637 cases; Japan ranked ninth with 23,771,785 cases, of which Russia had 777,122 cases on Sunday with 21,536,229 people, including 5,217 people on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Japan reported 103,345 cases, the most since Sept. 9. The death toll was 122,133 on Sunday and 139 on Thursday, the most since Sept. 18.

Japan’s seven-day moving case average was 83,463, compared with 26,325 on Oct. 12, below 20,000 in early July and a daily record of 255,316 on Aug. 18.

On Thursday, Japan raised its alert level to the second highest of four.

Tokyo Metropolitan Expert Thursday’s Coronavirus Surveillance Meeting One expert warned that the capital “could be considered to be entering an eighth wave of infections”.

The number of foreign tourists in Japan surged to nearly half a million in October, the first time the country has fully reopened to overseas visitors after more than two years of Covid restrictions. That’s double what it was in September.

Japan’s death rate has been low throughout the pandemic.

With 384 deaths per million, Japan ranks 143rd nationally and 850.0 in the world, with Peru topping the list with 6,449. Among the cases, Japan has a rate of 189,289 per million people, ranking 87th in the world with 81,810 people, Austria with 608,588 people, the highest among large countries, France with 569,260 people, Portugal with 546,035 people, and Denmark with 538,695 people people. The population of Japan is 125 million.

TuesdayJapan said it would reopen its ports to cruise ships in March 2023, with about 166 cruise ships expected to visit next year, industry body Japan Cruise Lines Council said.

Japan shut down cruise ships after Carnival’s Diamond Princess became one of the first hotbeds of coronavirus infections in early 2020.

In South Korea, South Korea passed the milestone of 30,000 deaths, including 41 reported on Sunday.

South Korea’s seven-day average of cases was 52,427, but reached 404,626 on March 19, compared with a single-day record of 621,328 on March 17.

In the U.S., the CDC classifies 2.8% of counties, districts, and territories as “high” category level, compared with 16.7% as “moderate” and 80.4% as “low.”In the “high” position, the wearing of masks is urged mainly indoors scattered across the plains and rocky mountains.

In its Thursday weekly update, the CDC reported 280,711 cases. It was at 261,410 four weeks ago, the lowest since 227,179 on April 13. The record was 5,603,140 on January 19.

The average death toll fell to 2,222, the lowest level since 2,045 on June 22 and a record 23,372 on January 13, 2021.

The dominant Omicron subvariant, BQ.1, is expected to account for 25.5% of total cases in the week ending Saturday, with BQ,1,1 accounting for 24.2%, with BA.5, the dominant BA.5, declining since early summer to 24.0%.

The overall Omicron is 96.9%. The original dominant variant Delta is 0%.

“Stimulation of any kind will really reduce your chances of getting seriously ill from COVID,” said Dr. Katherine Stephenson, an infectious disease specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. tell usa today.

Jeremy Luban, a professor of molecular medicine, biochemistry and molecular biotechnology at UMass Chan School of Medicine, said the new viral Omicron offspring of BA.5 and BA.2 could cause more severe disease than BA.1 or the original Omicron.

“Somewhat familiar,” Lu Ban told NPR in a Nov. 11 report“This time last year we were optimistic. We were coming out of a delta wave, it was steadily declining, and we were going into Thanksgiving to wake up the omicron. So last year had this déjà vu feeling.”

In its weekly report on Thursday, the CDC said 91.6% of U.S. adults had received one-time vaccinations, 78.5% had completed primary services and 13.1% had updated booster doses. Complete fill was 80.6% for one shot, 68.7% for the completed primary, and 11.3% for the newer Booster 5 and earlier.

The number of new weekly hospitalizations in the United States was 3,444 in a week, a weekly decrease of 4.4%. Since the inception of COVID-19, a total of 5,516,552 people have been hospitalized in a population of 332 million. The US reported a total of 27,416 on Sunday, or 3.92% of capacity, well below the record 160,113 (20.6%) on Jan. 20. Department of Health and Human Services.