COVID Data Thread

Some very good news to report today.

The North West as of today has just NINE people on ventilators out of 890 people in hospital with Covid.

That is the first time there has been a single figure total on a ventilator in the region since the recording of data began on 2 April 2020. By which point it was already in double figures.

At the heght of the pandemic in January 2021 the numbers did top 400 in the region.

I suspect the media will not spot this even locally unless we have a very observant journalist working in the region.

So thought it was worth passing on.
 
The US is considering imposing new Covid restrictions on Chinese arrivals, after Beijing announced it would reopen its borders next month.

American officials say this is due to a lack of transparency surrounding the virus in China, as cases surge.
On Wednesday, Italy announced plans to enforce mandatory testing, after tighter measures were outlined by Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan and India.

Beijing said coronavirus rules should be brought in on a "scientific" basis.
Officials in the Italian city of Milan are already testing passengers on flights from China.
On one flight, which landed at the city's Malpensa Airport on Boxing Day, 52% of passengers were found to be positive for Covid, la Repubblica reports.

Officials are yet to comment on these figures but, in a statement, Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said he had ordered mandatory Covid-19 testing for all passengers coming from China and transiting through Italy.
He said this was "essential to ensure the surveillance and identification" of any new variants of the virus, and to "protect the Italian population".
 
We should all be very worried by these new developments, back to online ordering for me. I can't afford to get this!
 
The World Health Organisation says it is concerned about "risk to life" in China amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, while in Europe and the US the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is spreading rapidly.

On Wednesday, the WHO confirmed XBB1.5 is the most transmissible variant so far, but said so far it did not appear to cause more serious illness.


It evolved from the XBB variant of Omicron, itself a fusion of two different BA.2 variants - BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75.
 
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