Cyprus
https://cyprus-mail.com/tag/coronavirus/
Waive Covid testing requirements for vaccinated visitors
March 2021
Travellers will not need to meet other Covid-related entry rules
British travellers returning from there to the UK are required to self-isolate.
United States
Hospital admissions
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941976?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=127834AR&impID=2716638&faf=1
Some patients who may benefit from inpatient care are being sent home
Proportion of COVID patients getting hospitalized falling
Previous months
Cases, 7 days, admissions x 3.5%
(10 days, 3.7%)
1 in 29 hospitalised, September and October
October 15
Cases, + 53,000
One week later, expected 1844 new hospitalizations
Actual number was 1855
November 1
Cases, + 80,000
November 8, 2,804 expected
Actual number, 2,604
November 15
Cases, + 146,000
Expected admissions one week later, 5,111
Actual number, 3,670
Staff shortages
Kansas, 46% of hospitals, shortages this week
Mr. Joe Biden
Will ask all Americans to wear a mask for his first 100 days
Dr Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser on the pandemic
Order masks to be worn in federal buildings and public transport
Significant reduction in coronavirus cases
Mr Biden, happy, to have vaccine once Dr Fauci says to
When Dr Fauci says we have a vaccine that is safe that's the moment in which I will stand before the public
UK
UK vaccination
Pfizer, Tuesday, NHS and social care staff in all of UK
Pfizer and BioNTech's plans for the roll-out of the vaccine have not changed
we would supply up to 50 million doses globally in 2020.
We have delivered the first 800,000 doses to the UK
we expect to deliver millions more this year
Any speculation regarding a change in this plan is incorrect
MHRA
Regulatory approvals required to proceed with the splitting up of packs have been put in place
Oxford vaccine trial
Volunteers to be unblinded
Unethical to carry on trial after vaccine in in use
Thirty ill and one death in Moderna control group
UK National position
FDA to advise soon
Problems for other vaccine trials
Will effect longer term comparisons between vaccine and placebo groups
Later trials may compare new vaccines with already approved jabs
England
Police patrolling perimeters of some Tier 2 and 3 areas
To enforce non-essential travel rules
The Government currently advises against non-essential travel from Tier 3 areas
or visiting areas in a higher tier than your own
Tier 1 Cornwall being protected
Businesses on the border are supposed to turn away custom
UK, mass testing
False negatives
Even those with a high viral load
Dr Susan Hopkins, NHS Test and Trace
What we are doing here is case detection
We are not saying people do not have the disease if their test is negative
Bahrain gives vaccine the green light
Emergency-use authorisation for Pfizer/BioNTech
Russia
Cases, +28,782 = 2,431,731
Moscow, cases, + 7,993
Deaths, + 508 = 42,684
Sputnik V via 70 clinics on Saturday
Medical workers, teachers, social workers
Age capped at 60
Underlying health conditions, pregnant women, respiratory illness for the past two weeks
Siberia's Vector Institute vaccine
DRC hospitals struggle with influx of Covid-19 patients
Kinshasa, lack of oxygen
Frequent power cuts
Jean-Jacques Muyembe
The number of cases is rising and the cases are more and more serious
Germany
Bremen protests, 20,000, banned
German success in first wave has led to failures now (RKI)
