By Melati Mohd Ariff
This is a summary of COVID-19 issues in Malaysia and around the world from August 22 to 12:30 p.m. Today. In Malaysia, the number of cases has exceeded 9,000 and worldwide the virus has inflamed more than 24 million people and caused more than 800,000 deaths. More than 200 countries and territories are affected by the pandemic.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) – The new reported instances this week were usually single digits, but the option that the new strain of the D614G virus may have caused infections in the Tawar group is a concern.
Health Director Tan Sri, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, said at a press conference that there is a wonderful choice for the Tawar group and the Sivagangga PUI group (people under investigation) to possibly come from the same source. Both groups originate from Kedah.
“Four samples taken from the Tawar group virus went to 3 from the Sivagangga group and the effects (genomic sequencing) showed that the seven viruses belonged to the same group. However, investigations are still ongoing,” he said, adding that the Tawar group has now expanded to the third generation.
The Tawar cluster did not report new instances. Array Three of the five new reported instances concerned local transmissions in Melaka.
The total number of COVID-19 is now 9296 and active in 177.
During 24 hours until noon yesterday, 16 COVID-19 patients were discharged from the hospital, bringing the total number of cures to 8,994 (96.8% of the total cases).
Lately, eight patients are housed in the intensive care unit, six of whom require respiratory assistance. The death toll remains at 125 (1.35% of the total number of cases).
THE LARGEST ACTIVE GROUP
With 73 instances reported on Wednesday, the Tawar group overcame the Sivagangga group, which registered forty-five instances.
Previously, the Ministry of Health had detected the D614G strain in 3 of the Sivagangga group and a case of the Bukit Tiram group involving a Filipino.
The South China Morning Post, based in Hong Kong, reported that only two Asian countries, Malaysia and the Philippines, had so far detected the D614G strain.
This specific mutated virus is said to have originated in Europe and has a super diffuser in Pakistan and India.
The case of tawar’s cluster rate, detected on August 12, is a Malaysian who performed the COVID-19 test at a personal hospital in Sungai Petani, Kedah, after experiencing symptoms.
Of the 73 cases grouped, six are treated in the intensive care unit. The group reported any deaths.
Tawar’s group has expanded to 4 districts in Kedah, with Kuala Muda recording the number of instances at 26, followed by Baling (20), Kulim (15) and Sik (one). This group is also guilty of six cases in Timur Laut, four cases in Barat Daya and one case in Seberang Prai Utara in Penang.
On the value rt or R 0 (R0), which refers to the infectiousness of a virus at the beginning of an epidemic in a community, Dr. Noor Hisham stated that the highest R0 in Malaysia was recorded on 22 July, with 1.37, and the lowest of 0.58 on The Fourth of August (before the application of the motion order on 18 March , the R0 was 3.55).
The emergence of new groups, which added the Tawar group after August 4, saw the R0 at 0.74 on August 26.
According to Dr. Noor Hisham, an R0 price of less than one, if maintained permanently, will break the chain of COVID-19 infections in Malaysia.
EMCO ADMINISTRATIVE
Commenting on the implementation of the Enhanced Administrative Movement Control Order (EMCO) to Aman Jaya in Sungai Petani starting (today), Dr. Noor Hisham said it was to facilitate public aptitude screening activities involving the local community.
The Chief Minister (Cluster Security), Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, said at a press conference that EMCO will cover 3 spaces in Aman Jaya (Kenanga, Melur and Mawar) involving 22,360 families (265 houses).
Households received the home oversight order due to contact with seven positive COVID-19 instances of the Tawar cluster.
WHO AND THE GLOBAL SITUATION
On Monday, August 24, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 172 countries are involved in discussions to participate in COVAX, a global vaccine-branded paint initiative to provide countries around the world with equitable access and effective vaccines once they are. evolved and allowed to be used.
At a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said COVAX has lately the world’s largest and most diversified COVID-19 vaccine portfolio, comprising nine candidate vaccines and nine others in evaluation.
He said the supervised distribution of vaccines at the international level will be in the interest of all nations, adding those that have signed their own agreements with vaccine developers.
He said new studies highlighted that the global vaccine dose festival can lead to an exponential increase in the value of a collaborative effort such as the installation of COVAX.
This would also lead to an extended pandemic, as a small number of countries would gain benefits from the bulk of supply.
“COVAX will ensure that all low-, middle- and high-income countries get the vaccine at the right time as soon as there is an effective vaccine,” he added.
COVID-19 GLOBAL STATISTICS
According to CoronaTracker (which cites figures from agencies that add to WHO), the total number of international co-bodies of COVID-19 at the time of writing was 24624999 (22882693 instances at the same time last Friday) and 835627 deaths (797428 last Friday). ). The total number of recoveries was 17,092,747.
The United States remains more sensitive to the list of countries most affected with 6,046,634 cases (5,746,534 cases last Friday) and 184,796 deaths (177,426 last week).
Brazil is the time with 3,764,493 instances and 118,726 deaths. India ranks third with 3,384,575 cases and 61,694 deaths. Russia ranks fourth with 975,576 cases and 16,804 deaths.
Another 30 countries (25 last week) recorded more than 100,000, namely:
Peru 621,997 (28,277 deaths), South Africa 618,286 (13,502), Colombia 582,022 (18,468), Mexico 579,914 (62,594), Spain 451,792 (18.468) Mexico 579,914 (62,594), Spain 451,792 (18,468), Mexico 28,996), Chile 404,102 (11072), Argentina 380,292 (8,050), Iran 367.367.3 796 (21,137) Array United Kingdom 330,368 (41,477), Saudi Arabia 311,855 (3,785), Bangladesh 304,583 (4,127), Pakistan 294,638 (6,274), Italy 584 263,949 (35,463), Turkey 263,998 (6,209), France 259,698 (30,576), Germany 240,565 (9,359) Iraq Array 219,435 (6,740) , Philippines 205,581 (3,234), Indonesia 162,884 (7,064) Array Canada 126,848 (9,102), Qatar 117,988 (195), Bolivia 113,129 (4,791) ), Ukraine 112,059 (112,059 (112,059 (2,403), Ecuador 111,219 (6,471), Israel 110,403 (884) and Kazakhstan 105,243 (1,523).
China, where the epidemic was first reported at the end of December 2019, is now 35th with 85004 cases, while its figure remains at 4634.
In Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia have joined countries with more than 100,000 instances. Then comes Singapore with 56,572 cases, while its death toll remains at 27, followed by Thailand with 3,404 cases and 58 deaths.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam has increased to 1,034 and the death toll to 30. Myanmar now has 586 cases, while its number remains six. Cases in Cambodia remain 273 and no deaths have been reported. The death toll in Brunei remains in 141 cases and two deaths, while Laos reported 22 cases of death.
COVID-19 BACKGROUND
According to the WHO website, his country’s workplace in China reported cases of pneumonia detected in Wuhan on 31 December 2019. On January 7, the Chinese government demonstrated that the new coronavirus can be transmitted from man to man.
Coronaviruses are a giant circle of disease-causing relatives of viruses ranging from colds to more serious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-VOC).
One of the genetic series of the virus noted similarities with that observed in snakes and bats. Health officials in China have known the seafood market from Huanan to Wuhan as the source of coronavirus transmission.
On 11 February, WHO announced the official call for the virus, COVID-19, which is an acronym for coronavirus 2019 – CO corona, VI for viruses and D for disease.
On 30 January, WHO declared that the coronavirus outbreak was a global emergency. By that time, it had spread to 18 countries and caused 170 deaths. On 11 March, COVID-19 declared a pandemic through WHO.
WHO has described the COVID-19 outbreak as 10 times that of influenza A H1N1, also known as swine flu.
Swine flu, which occurred between January 2009 and August 2010, inflames more than 1.6 million people and caused 18,449 deaths.
The International Monetary Fund warned that the global economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic would be worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Translated through Rema Nambiar
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