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1) Coronavirus live: England speeds up booster jab rollout, Ukraine reports record daily death toll theguardian.com/world/live/202…
2) 11 patients died Saturday after a fire broke out in a H Covid-19 ward (in the Indian state of Maharashtra). 17 patients were in H ward in the Ahmednagar where the fire started, said Police Inspector Jyoti Karkade. The remaining 6 patients are stable, she added;
3) Austria said on Friday, it was barring those not fully💉 against Covid-19 from cafes, restaurants, & hairdressers as gov’t struggles to convince people to get💉.

~ 64% of 🇦🇹 population is fully💉 against Covid, one of the lowest rates in W Europe, asAustrians are skeptical;
4) Russia reported a record 41,335 new cases Saturday,
w/1,188 covid linked deaths. A one week workplace shutdown in 🇷🇺, is nearing its end. While some regions are extend that covid curb into next week, many have opted to resume work from Monday;
5)(A) Merck & Pfizer reported positive results for oral antivirals drugs. In early Oct, Merck said it was seeking EUA in US for molnupiravir. Pfizer followed suit Friday w/paxlovid. They’re anti-virals that act by reducing the 🦠 ability to replicate, slowing down the disease;
5)(B) Both pills are to be taken orally, when 1st symptoms of Covid-19 appear, to avoid serious illness & hospitalization. If efficacy of pills confirmed, that’s a big advance in treating 🦠. They would add to💉to bolster the world’s therapeutic arsenal against the 🦠;
5)(C) Merck & Pfizer’s reports hard to evaluate, as both companies published statements & haven’t made clinical
trials data available.

French infectious diseases specialist Karine Lacombe warns these announcements should be treated w/ “caution” until studies can be reviewed;
6) While Covid cases ⬇️ among secondary schoolchildren in England for first time in weeks, experts from the government’s pandemic advisory body warn, deaths & hospitalizations from the disease across the UK could soar over the next 9 days;
7) Australia on Saturday reached a full💉 rate of 80% for people 16 & older, a moment that was dubbed by 🇦🇺 PM as
a “magnificent milestone”.

“Another, magnificent milestone, Australia,” PM Scott said in a video post on Facebook;
8) New Zealand reported 206 new daily local cases Saturday, works to💉its population. Auckland reported 200 of the new local cases. 78% of New Zealanders aged 12 and above have been fully vaccinated, while 89% had a first vaccine dose by Friday;
9) ML China reported 55 new cases on Nov 6, ⬇️ from 78 on Nov 5. The National Health Commission also said in its daily bulletin, that 40 of the new cases were locally transmitted, (⬇️ from 68 Friday), w/16 in Heilongjiang province;
10) Ukraine reported record of 793 covid-related deaths today, the health ministry said. This comes as 🇺🇦 grapples w/covid 💉 skepticism. >1K people blocked several streets in Kiev Wed, protesting against vaccine certs and state-imposed curbs to control the 🦠;
11) Despite an abundance of Covid-19 shots, countries from Germany to Greece have reported record infections in recent days, while Romania and Bulgaria are experiencing horrific levels of fatalities and overwhelmed hospitals.
12) Malaysia update for November 6.
13) Nursing students across Singapore are being tapped to supplement the healthcare workforce, with their attachments with healthcare facilities, such as hospitals, extended or brought forward to an earlier date.
14) There are now more than 2,300 beds across 17 sites to cater for higher-risk Covid-19 patients, who require close observation, but aren’t so ill that they need to be hospitalized, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Saturday (Nov 6).
15) Indonesia COVID-19 update for November 6.
16) Truly unfortunate, but sadly this won’t be the last case of a covid denier/covid conspiracy theorist, going the way of the passenger pigeon or dodo bird.
17) Follow up on point 11.
18) Central Europe. 👇🏾
19) Eastern Europe. 👇🏾
20) Something to ponder regarding Europe (& UK) today. 👇🏾

“Think back to December 2020, and a dozen countries are now going through that or worse, a year after vaccines came on line.”
21) From @mvanhulten - 🇧🇪 Ghent Univ H says it's no longer giving ICU priority to covid patients, citing other seriously ill patients whose operations keep getting postponed. "We can't reserve beds as though they were tables in a restaurant" says Chief Doctor (@demorgen) .
22) DDC update from November 5.
23) Thailand COVID-19 update for November 6.
24) ASEAN COVID-19 update for November 5.
25) Lebanon COVID-19 update for November 5.
26) Booster jabs will be available to book for those who need them a month earlier than expected in England, in an effort to speed up the program, the government has announced;
27) The N California town of Oroville declared itself a “constitutional republic”, in response to the Governor’s Covid-19 health curbs.

City Council in Oroville adopted a resolution this week, stating it would oppose state & federal orders it deems to be gov’t overreach;
28) Health Minister Ximena Garzón said Friday, that covid cases continue to ⬇️ in Ecuador, as 🇪🇨 💉 program continues. “According to WHO parameters, the virus has been controlled in Ecuador and it appears the disease is now entering its endemic stage,” she said.
29) As per MOH’s report, 3,235 patients nationwide are in serious condition, w/300 requiring invasive ventilation & 13
on life support (ECMO).

Vietnam reported 58 deaths, total death toll at 22,470.

As of Nov 5, >28.14M people were now fully inoculated.
30) Germany reports 35,711 new covid cases today, the biggest one day increase on record, and 178 new deaths.
31) Note - As of Nov 2, face masks are now mandatory again in all public buildings and shops where covid passes are not required. Covid passes are now required in all restaurants and bars.
32) Saskatchewan Health Authority reports total covid linked hit 863, province has highest COVID-19 death rate in 🇨🇦.

The province had a 14 day rate of 5.3 COVID-19 deaths per 100K residents as of TH, highest among any province or territory, according to federal government data.
33) Pennsylvania COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, as well as selected Counties updates, for November 6.
34) Canada overview for the week
A) New cases⬇️
15,558 new cases, ⬇️ of 4%. 40.9 cases per 100K residents;
B) Active cases⬇️
Active cases declined 7%;
C) Deaths⬇️
180 deaths, or 0.5 per 100K residents, ⬇️ of 19%;
D) H admissions⬇️
H admissions ⬇️ 5% & ICU beds filled ⬇️ 14%.
35) More @CBCNews on COVID-19 in Ontario: There are 3,533 known active cases in the province and the test positivity rate is 1.9%. 3 previous deaths were removed due to data cleanup, so the death toll remains unchanged at 9,896.
36) Italy reported 31 covid-related deaths Saturday, 🇮🇹 Health Ministry said. 🇮🇹 also reported 6,764 new infections today;
37) France reported 90,988 covid deaths in hospital, an increase of 25. 🇫🇷 also reported 1,099 patients in ICU for Covid-19 Saturday, an increase of 10;
38) Queues formed Athens shops Sat, on 1st day of new
curbs require un-💉to show proof of (-) Covid-19 test, before entering a range of venues, Reuters reports.

Covid cases in Greece hit new daily highs almost every day in November, prompting 🇬🇷 officials to announce new curbs;
39) The UK reported 155 deaths on Saturday of people who had tested (+) for Covid-19 w/i past 28 days, and 30,693 new cases.

The government figures show a fall from the 193 deaths and 34,029 new cases reported on Friday;
40) 🇩🇪 expected incoming gov’t won’t reimpose LDs. FDP
leader Christian Lindner said :

“Bundestag majority of [Social Democrats], Greens & FDP is excluding the instruments of lockdown & curfew,” Lindner told the German tabloid Bild, referencing the three coalition partners;
41) Follow up from point 36. More data from Italy. H patients in w/ Covid-19 (excluding ICUs), at 3,173 on Saturday, ⬆️ from 3,124 Friday.

23 new ICU admissions, ⬇️ from 37 on Friday. Total number of ICU patients fell to 392, from 395 Friday;
42) MOH reports 3,035 new covid cases, comprised of 2,928
local cases, 102 dorm cases & 5 imports. 12 more cases, aged between 60 and 98 years, died from complications due to COVID-19 infection. All of them had various underlying medical conditions.
43) The 4 cases are among 8K+ pediatric COVID-19 cases in SG since the start of pandemic, and are "considered rare", the Health Ministry said. Of the 4 cases, one is in the children’s intensive care unit (CICU), one is in a general ward, and two have been discharged.
44) Regarding Kids, COVID-19 & MISC-C 👇🏾 in the US.
Note that’s from about a month ago.
45) TRT 🧵. New for overall 🧵:
A) 💉 delivered to Yemen cover only 1.5% of residents;
B) Brazil reports 389 deaths & 13,321 new cases;
C) US preps for long lines & delays, when curbs lifted
on non-US citizen int’l fully 💉travelers.
46) NFL says not so fast Aaron.
47) Winter might not be here on the calendar, but in some ways, it’s already here.
48) FT - This isn’t just the same *court* that has bent over backwards to allow #SB8 to go into effect (despite “grave constitutional issues”); it’s the same *panel* that reached
out to prevent the district court from even *holding* a PI hearing in the providers’ case.
49) Costa Rican children aged five and above must get Covid-19 vaccinations, according to a new health ministry mandate, making the Central American country one of the first to adopt such a requirement for kids;
50)(A) Mexicans who cross US land border for work or school, scramble to get approved Covid-19 vaccines ahead of new rules set to go into effect next week, 20 months after the United States shut crossings for non-essential trips;
50)(B) The rules specify that from Monday only foreigners who have received WHO approved vaccines can cross, which in effect bars those who received jabs including China’s CanSino Biologics and Russia’s Sputnik V, among others;
51) France reported 9,605 new cases Sat & reported 7.1M cases overall.

GRZ -The ⬆️in (+) cases seems to be accelerating in 🇫🇷 : probably around + 31% increase over one week (correcting for the Nov 1 bank holiday). On average, 6,291 are detected each day (7,180 after correction).
52) “Hospital admissions (+16 %) and critical care (+11 %) continue their increase over a week.”
53) Greece reported 6,909 new covid cases Friday, breaking
a previous single-day record of 6,808 recorded on Thursday. This took the total infections to 774,265 since the pandemic began last year. Some 16,200 death people have died.
54) Colorado hit new low for H beds this week, w/average of
~ 800 general beds & <100 available ICU beds, health officials said Fri.

Latest cases & H admissions surge prompts CO to issue a public health advisory, urging Coloradans to get💉& wear masks in crowded indoor spaces.
55) Current community transmission map.
56) Regarding Saskatchewan……..
57) US COVID-19 update for Saturday November 6.
Weekend effect for new daily cases on display, 7 day
average shows a decline, but give that a side eye also.

Hospitalizations continue trend of declines, for both the general floors & ICUs. Deaths show weekend effect as well.
58) NSW COVID-19 update – Sunday 7 November 2021

In the 24-hour reporting period to 8pm last night:

- 93.9% of people aged 16+ have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
- 89.7% of people aged 16+ have had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine
- 70,276 tests
59) Victoria overview :
A) Doses at state run clinics yesterday: 13,913
Total: 4,695,721
B) Fully💉 (12+): 83%
C) Hospitalized: 568
7 Day Average: 648
In ICU: 96
Ventilated: 63
D) Tests: 56,649
E) New cases: 1,173
F) Lives lost: 9
G) Active cases: 16,413
60) 113 new local cases reported in New Zealand today, after > 200 were reported Friday. 109 of today's cases were in Auckland, with 3 in Waikato & 1 in Northland. There are 74 people in hospital, including five in ICUs. All are in Auckland and the average age is 51.

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