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Mar 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Vietnam: Male student infected with A/H5 influenza

21-year-old male student, staying in Nha Trang University dormitory .. was hospitalized and tested positive for influenza A/H5. The N number has not yet been determined.

VnExpress
vnexpress.net/nam-sinh-vien-… Vietnam: HumaN A/H5 infection

Translation of part of the VNExpress article Image
Oct 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Australia: Recent spike in Covid deaths was the highest of the pandemic.

There'll be a reason for this huge peak, no doubt. We just haven't found it yet. Image Australia: After weeks of posting numbers of Covid deaths at 30-50 a week, 685 deaths are suddenly added on the 10th September 2023.

WHO Data download: covid19.who.int/data
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Jun 15, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
WHO: Covid-19 hotspots across the globe up to 15th June 2023 Image Percentage change in Covid-19 deaths across the globe Image
Jun 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
UK Summer Covid wave kicks off. Image The new wave seems to have started in Cornwall just after the UK schools half-term break:

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Jun 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Brazil, Paraíba: 41 deaths due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

23 deaths were due to influenza, 15 to RSV, two to Rhinovirus, and one to parainfluenza. Of the victims, 21 were aged between 0 and 9 yrs, seven were between 33 and 58 years old, and 13 were older than 60 years old.
Jun 11, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
China: FU.1 is now the most common Covid variant.

Easily outcompetes XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16 and XBB.1.9.2.

#SARSCoV2

H/t @RajlabN

public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra… Image Thailand: FU.1 is 50% more transmissible than XBB.1.16

Jun 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
UK: Highest level of Syphilis in 75 years

theguardian.com/society/2023/j… US: Highest levels of Syphilis in 70 years

abcnews.go.com/Health/stis-in…
Jun 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Brazil - the latest national update on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes is also referred to locally as "SARS" or "SARI".

The report includes a breakdown of flu, RSV and Covid-19 infections in Brazil. ImageImage The report shows the most badly affected areas in Brazil for SARS are Amapá, Acre and Paraíba. Image
May 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Brazil: Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) are full in Amapá.

Due to the outbreak of flu and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes in Amapá, the Brazilian Navy sent 12 thousand tons of oxygen to the public hospital network.

g1.globo.com/ap/amapa/notic… Covid deaths in Brazil Image
May 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB subvariants in Singapore.

Perhaps one of the reasons that XBB.2.3 was recently designated a Variant Under Monitoring by the WHO?

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Image There seems to be an increase in non-severe hospitalisations with XBB.2.3 compared to other XBB subvariants: Image
Apr 24, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Sudden increases in Covid-19 cases and deaths across the globe.

Some countries are seeing very unusual rises in Covid-19 cases and deaths recently. Italy: Covid cases up by 28.5%, deaths up 48% in one week.
Apr 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
UKHSA: 5 deaths from 105 sequenced cases of XBB.1.16

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Image XBB.1.16 at 2.3% of UK sequences in early April 2023.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… Image
Apr 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Italy: Covid cases up by 28.5%, deaths up 48% in one week.

Incidence stood at 48 for every 100,000 inhabitants in the period between 14 April and 20 April 2023, against 37 in the previous survey.

ansa.it/canale_salutee… XBB.1.5 seems to have increased its proportion of sequences in Italy over the past few weeks, with XBB.1.16 not making much of an impact so far. Image