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1) Coronavirus live news: Hawaii governor wants to curb travel; Israel boosters ‘beating Delta’ theguardian.com/world/live/202…
2) The newly elected Iranian gov’t led by President Raisi is facing demands to broaden its sources of💉as Iran battles a
5th deadly covid wave. The supply of💉is said to be close to exhausted in Isfahan & Tabriz, as well as provinces including Gilan, Khuzestan and Mazandaran;
3) Australian Covid vaccine study shows social restrictions and cash would slash hesitancy;
4) Cuba will supply large quantities of its home-grown Covid-19 vaccine, Abdala, to Vietnam & also transfer the production technology to 🇻🇳 by end of 2021, Vietnamese Health Ministry said;
5) Almost 5K UK covid-19 cases linked to music & surfing festival Boardmasters, which took place in Cornwall this month. Health officials said 4.7K people who tested (+) for covid, confirmed they attended the festival or connected
to it. 3/4 are 16-21 & 800 live in county;
6) New Zealand braces for its worst covid outbreak after it added a further 41 cases, taking total to 148 since it started spreading last week. Majority of infected are Samoan, linked to a sub-cluster who assembled at Assembly of God church in Mangere, Auckland before LD;
7) Israeli officials & scientists have reported seeing cases fall, after people began receiving 3rd💉 shot. Israel saw a sharp increase in cases fuelled by Delta variant. It began a program to deliver a third shot at the end of July, starting with the over-60s;
8) Hawaii’s Governor has asked that visitors & residents reduce travel to the islands, while the state struggles to control the spread of Delta variant. Gov David Ige said on Monday local time that he wants to curtail travel to Hawaii through to the end of October;
9) New South Wales recorded another 753 cases on Tuesday, but the Australian state has passed 6M💉and will announce some relaxation of the tight lockdown curbs this week for people who have received two doses;
10) Deaths from Covid-19 are now averaging 100 a day across the UK, & there are warnings that case rates will jump again when millions of pupils return to schools next week. The country racked up more than 31,000 new cases Monday;
11) South Korea extends strict anti-COVID-19 measures for 2 weeks, Health Authorities say;
12) India COVID-19 cases rise to 32.47M;
13) India will likely restart exporting Covid-19 vaccines next year once it has immunized its own adult population, the head of an influential government expert panel said.
14) Malaysia reports 20,837 cases on Tuesday.
15) Asia's robust economic recovery from last year's coronavirus low is losing momentum as a surge in COVID-19 cases sees shops empty again and factories close, dimming prospects for corporate profit growth after a blockbuster half year.
16) Oil prices rose on Tuesday after the U.S. drug regulator granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine, stoking investor hopes that higher fuel demand would follow a potential step up in U.S. coronavirus vaccination rates.
17) Tokyo’s COVID-19 facility geared to taking pressure off its hospitals.
18) FT - Chen said while the CECC is going to start arranging some elderly to get their second vaccine, the CECC will still focus on enhancing the vaccination rate of the first dose of vaccine.
19) "I feel it is contradictory to stage the Olympics and Paralympics while the government asks people to refrain from going out," said Junko Fujisaki, who was jogging around the National Stadium, the main venue of the games, before going to her office.
20) In the first week of August, Tokyo recorded an average of 3,893 new cases per day. The figure rose to 4,231.1 in the second week, and 4,719 in the third, up from the daily average of 1,420.5 for the month of July, when the capital registered a total of 44,034 new infections.
21) Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology in Ghent say antibodies extracted from a llama called Winter have blunted the virulence of coronavirus infections, including variants, in laboratory testing, Reuters reports.
22) People infected w/Delta variant have a viral load 300X ⬆️ than those w/Covid-19 virus, when symptoms first present , a South Korean study found. But viral ⬇️ over time – to 30X in 4 days, ~10X in 9 days & matched levels seen in other variants after 10 days, KDCA) said Tue;
23) Russia reported 18,833 new covid cases Tuesday, including 1,105 in Moscow, taking nat’l tally to 6,785,374. A further 794 deaths of covid patients confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 177,614;
24) Northern Ireland has highest rate of covid cases in UK,
at 579.5 per 100K. It’s the highest cases rate in region since Jan 8. The District of Fermanagh & Omagh has highest rate of any local authority in UK, w/1,003.9 cases per 100K recorded in 7 days to Aug 18;
25) All 62 Covid-19 cases detected among migrant workers from the North Coast Lodge dormitory in Woodlands on Monday (Aug 23) were fully vaccinated, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Tuesday.
26) In West Bengal state🇮🇳, people no longer have to book in advance for their💉, as India anticipates 3rd wave starting in September or October. On Friday, India approved world’s 1st DNA covid💉, despite lack of transparency re: jab’s long-term effectiveness from Zydus Cadila;
27) From Ontario….
28) Despite return of gigs & festivals, UK live music industry is still full of uncertainty due to a lack of clarification from the government about vaccine passports and an events insurance scheme that’s been described by some major concert promoters as unfit for purpose;
29) First Min Sturgeon warned some covid controls may be reimposed in Scotland, after 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 saw record spike in new cases, which doubled in past week. 4,324 new cases were detected in Scotland in last 24 hours (highest daily figure on record), w/ 1/2 of cases in under-25 year olds;
30) President Biden to be briefed on intel probe into Covid-19 origin. People familiar w/intel reporting say there’s been little corroboration over recent months that the virus had spread widely and naturally amongst wild animals, thus raising the spectre of a lab leak;
31) Greece announced end free testing for un-💉people in an attempt to to boost inoculation rates. New measures to coax people into getting 💉will come into effect on Sept 13, also obliging unvaccinated people to test either once or twice a week, depending on their profession;
32) Scott Morrison has rejected modelling that warns Australia could face 25,000 deaths and 270,000 cases of long Covid if lockdowns and public health restrictions end once 80% of the adult population is vaccinated;
33) British tourists face difficulties in proving their vaccine status in Europe following a delay in linking the NHS Covid pass to the EU’s system due to gaps in the British government’s application to Brussels;
34) A tense standoff in Slidell, Louisiana, over mask mandates is one of dozens that have unfolded at local school board meetings across the US in recent weeks as schools debate how to return to in-person instruction amid the resurgent threat of the Delta variant;
35) NYT reports that yesterday’s FDA full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech 💉, didn’t invalidate Montana’s law, which also prohibits discrimination based on whether a person has been 💉. At least 2 other states ( TX & UT) ban 💉 requirements by law or executive order;
36) 111 new local cases reported Tues Aug 24. Of these, 33 were unlinked. Remaining 78 cases linked, MOH said. 24 linked to North Coast Lodge dormitory cluster, 30 are linked to prior cases & detected through surveillance, while 24 were already in QT when they tested positive.
37) Director Dr. Francis Collins of the NIH has said covid “does not have the earmarks of being created intentionally by humans”, but did not rule out a Wuhan lab leak;
38) 30,838 people in UK tested (+) for Covid in the last 24 hours. A further 174 people died w/i 28 days of testing (+) for covid, according to gov’t data on Tuesday. Official figures show 46,401 people got first 💉dose, with 131,283 getting their second jab;
39) US could have covid pandemic under control and achieve a return to “normality” by next spring, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, if the “overwhelming majority” of the population 💉. The White House CMA noted Monday night, after FDA gave full approval to the Pfizer💉;
38) COVID hospitalizations in the US item to consider.
39) SEC Covid-19 news.
40) Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Tuesday August 24 said the company believes a COVID-19 vaccine-resistant variant will likely one day emerge, though the company has a system in place to turn around a variant-specific jab within some three months;
40) More than five billion anti-Covid jabs have been delivered globally, an AFP tally of official sources shows. While it took around 140 days to administer the 1bn shots, the third, fourth and fifth billions each took between 26 and 30 days, the data show;
41) Nigeria has been allocated 7.7M doses Sinopharm 💉 through Covax scheme aimed at providing vaccines to developing countries. Nigeria has 💉 only 2M people
(or 1% of its population), w/one dose of vaccine, while
fewer than 1M have received two;
42) The person boarded the Carnival Vista cruise ship in Texas on July 31 and the ship headed to Belize, where the person was given medical treatment.
43) FT - “The administration is pointing to two distinct concerns -- the waning efficacy over time of vaccines, and signs of lower efficacy against delta, regardless of time. They cite both to argue for their booster shot plan.”
44) Louisiana covid data for August 24.
45) South Africa COVID-19 data reported on August 24.
46) 80+ school districts or charter networks closed or delayed in-person classes, for at least 1 entire school, in more than a dozen states b/c of ⬆️ in Covid cases.Other schools have sent home whole year groups or requested students to stay at home on a hybrid teaching system;
47) The Greek government has announced that, as of next month, all indoor eateries, bars, clubs and entertainment venues will be off limits for citizens who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19;
48) Goldman Sachs mandates Vaccines for employees and visitors.
49) More details on GS.
50) Florida hospitalizations at 16,820, down 7 on the day.
51) Florida reported today at 21,208. Yesterday’s report below for context.

ℹ Florida COVID-19 Update for August 23, 2021

🚨 Total Confirmed New Cases:
Saturday 8/21: 18,046
Sunday 8/22: 14,621
52) To be clear, this is Monday’s report.
53) This is a Tuesday report. Hospitalizations resume rising.
54) TX rapidly approaching its January 11 record high for hospitalizations and deaths are rising also.
55) Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on COVID-19 Vaccines.
56) US COVID-19 update for August 24. Highlights:
*New cases: 149,090
*Average: 154,281 (-3,957)
*In hospital: 98,674 (+2,931)
*In ICU: 25,034 (+1,343)
*New deaths: 1,343

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