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"Yesterday, Wuhan, China 🇨🇳 reported no new
#COVID19
cases for the first time since the outbreak began.
#Wuhan
provides hope for the rest of the world, that even the most severe situation can be turned around."
-
@DrTedros
at
@WHO
#coronavirus
press briefing on 20 March.
The following countries & territories have recently reported their first cases of
#COVID19
:
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇬🇦 Gabon
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇬🇾 Guyana
🇯🇪 Jersey
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇷🇪 Réunion
🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
🇻🇪 Venezuela
#coronavirus
How long did it take to reach one million
#COVID19
confirmed cases in the 🌍?
This
@aljazeera
chart shows that it took 43 days to reach the first 100k, but it took only one day to go from 900k to 1 million cases. 📈
B.1.1.7 is NOT a “UK variant”
B.1.351 is NOT a “South African variant”
P.1 is NOT a “Brazilian variant”
B.1.617.2 is NOT an “Indian variant”
SARS-CoV-2 is NOT a “China virus”
Referring to variants or viruses by where they were first detected should never be tolerated.
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-1,000,000+ confirmed cases & 51,000+ deaths 🌎
-
@WHO
asks countries to remove all financial barriers to testing & care for
#COVID19
-225,000+ recovered 🏥
-CDC: all Americans should wear cloth masks in public 😷
-Half of world under lockdown 🏠
Today’s
#coronavirus
recap:
-95,270 confirmed cases globally & 3,281 deaths
-80% of new cases in 🇮🇷🇮🇹🇰🇷
-
@WHO
estimates ~3.4% of 🌎
#COVID19
cases have died
-“It is a time for pulling out all the stops” -
@DrTedros
-Countries must take a comprehensive, all-government approach
Weekend
#coronavirus
recap:
-153,648 confirmed cases & 5,746 deaths 🌎
-US extends Europe travel ban to UK 🇬🇧 & Ireland 🇮🇪
-Spain on national lockdown 🇪🇸
-All 16 temporary
#COVID19
hospitals in
#Wuhan
close ✔
-
@WHO
calls for "all-of-society" approach to fight pandemic 💪
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-113,851
#COVID19
cases globally & 4,015 deaths 🌍
-Italy 🇮🇹 now has largest outbreak outside China 🇨🇳
-China & South Korea see decline in new cases 📉
-New countries reporting cases: 🇧🇫🇨🇾🇲🇳🇵🇦🇧🇳🇨🇩🇬🇬🇯🇲
-16 countries shut down schools nationwide 🏫
It took 94 days for the 🌎 to reach one million confirmed
#COVID19
cases.
It took only 12 days to double that. 📈
Timeline 👇
▶ 31 Dec: 1st cases reported
▶ 03 Apr: 1,000,000+ cases
▶ 15 Apr: 2,000,000+ cases
#coronavirus
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-93,164 confirmed cases globally & 3,199 deaths
-90% of new cases from 🇮🇷 🇮🇹 🇰🇷
-
#COVID19
deadlier than flu, but doesn't spread as easily (
@WHO
)
-Containment still a top 🌍 priority
-
#PPE
supply is rapidly depleting; increase in production needed
As of today, 26 countries have shut down schools nationwide to slow the spread of
#COVID19
, impacting ~376.9 million children 🌍,
@UNESCO
says.
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The EU 🇪🇺 will close all external borders for 30 days starting tomorrow at 12:00 to prevent spread of
#coronavirus
.
European countries on lockdown as of 16 March due to
#COVID19
:
- Italy 🇮🇹
- Spain 🇪🇸
- France 🇫🇷
- Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-334,981 confirmed cases & 14,652 deaths 🌎 (
@WHO
)
-No new cases in
#Wuhan
for 5 days 🇨🇳
-100,885 recovered (
@JHUSystems
)
-NYC area now epicenter of 🇺🇸 outbreak
-🇲🇿🇹🇨🇧🇿🇲🇲 report first
#COVID19
cases
-Olympics will be postponed, says IOC member 🏊
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-1.6 million cases & 100,000+ deaths as of 10 Apr 🌎
-374,500+ recovered 🏥
-Cases slow in Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸
-UK 🇬🇧 has deadliest day
-1st case in War-torn Yemen 🇾🇪
-
@WHO
: lifting restrictions too early can cause deadly resurgence of
#COVID19
📈
"We must unite to confront the pandemic together...we must also make a promise to future generations: never again."
-
@DrTedros
at a
@WHO
#COVID19
press briefing on 27 Mar.
#coronavirus
#BREAKING
Steroids cut death rates among critically ill
#coronavirus
patients, according to a new
@WHO
analysis, which found that treatment with cheap corticosteroids 💊 reduces the risk of dying from
#COVID19
by one-third.
More in
@JAMA_current
:
According to
@WHO
, the following countries/territories have reported their first cases of
#COVID19
in the past 24 hours:
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇫🇴 Faroe Islands
🇬🇫 French Guiana
🇲🇻 Maldives
🇲🇹 Malta
🇲🇶 Martinique
🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova
#coronavirus
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-1,280,000+ confirmed cases & 70,000+ deaths as of 6 Apr 🌍
-Turkey 🇹🇷, Japan 🇯🇵, Mexico 🇲🇽 see spike in
#COVID19
cases 📈
-US 🇺🇸 death toll hits 10,000
-
@WHO
: prioritize masks for health workers 🩺
-275,000+ recovered 😷
-🇬🇧 PM Johnson in ICU
Great graphic showing why it’s important to
#FlattenTheCurve
.
By practicing social distancing 😷, frequent hand-washing 🧼 and good respiratory etiquette 🗣 we can all help slow the spread of
#COVID19
.
(Credit:
@SiouxsieW
&
@XTOTL
)
The following countries 🌍 reported their first confirmed cases of
#COVID19
today:
🇧🇹 Bhutan
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇨🇷 Costa Rica
🇵🇪 Peru
🇷🇸 Serbia
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇻🇦 Vatican City
#coronavirus
Weekend
#coronavirus
recap:
-1.7 million+ cases & 100,000+ deaths as of 12 April🌎
-421,370+ recovered (
@JHUSystems
)🏥
-Pope calls for global unity at live-streamed
#Easter
mass 🥚
-Daily death toll declining in Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸 & France 🇫🇷
-India might extend lockdown🇮🇳
"Many of us have worked 7 days a week, 20 hours a day, for the last 7 months. Everything we do is focused on trying to save lives...
None of us are perfect, but we all serve, and we will continue to serve the vulnerable people of the world," -
@WHO
director
@DrMikeRyan
today.
"The situation is catastrophic," says
@WHO
chief
@DrTedros
about the conflict in
#Ethiopia
.
"The blockade on communications, including on journalists being able to report from
#Tigray
, means it remains a forgotten crisis – out of sight, and out of mind."
@WHO
A total of 135 countries & territories have reported confirmed cases of
#COVID19
.
These numbers reflect the latest case count as of 16:00 CET, 14 Mar 2020 from the
@WHO
#coronavirus
dashboard:
@WHO
A total of 153,648 confirmed
#COVID19
cases have been reported from 146 countries & territories 🌎.
These case counts reflect the latest numbers from the
@WHO
#coronavirus
dashboard as of 16:00 CET, 15 Mar 2020.
Link:
"My greatest fear at the moment is that countries now have a lemming syndrome & they'll open on the basis that the country next door opened up, [even though] they don't have the same situation, vaccine coverage, or health system...& end up opening prematurely" -
@DrMikeRyan
@WHO
.
"Nowhere in the world would you find a crisis like what you see in the northern part of
#Ethiopia
... we are witnessing hell in
#Tigray
," said
@DrTedros
today, adding that
@WHO
cannot deliver medicines, food or other supplies due to blockades on humanitarian aid since mid-July.
"I need to be blunt: the world is not treating the human race the same way.
It pains me...But it's happening. I hope the world comes back to its senses and treats all human life equally."
-
@WHO
chief
@DrTedros
on the 🌎 attention given to crises affecting Black & white lives.
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-2.2 million cases & 140,000+ deaths as of 17 April 🌎
-565,000+ recovered 🏥
-Africa may see up to 300,000 deaths this year,
@UN
predicts
-ICU rates decline in Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸
-US 🇺🇸 death toll tops 30k+ 📈
-Japan in state of emergency 🇯🇵
@WHO
@DrTedros
1️⃣ The speed and scale of
#COVID19
transmission.
"Almost 125,000 cases have been reported from 118 countries. In the past two weeks, the number of cases reported outside China has increased almost 13-fold, & the number of affected countries has almost tripled," -
@DrTedros
"The [
#Tigray
] region has been under siege for almost 500 days, with dire shortages of fuel and food.
We continue to call on
#Ethiopia
and
#Eritrea
to end the blockade," says
@WHO
Director-General
@DrTedros
at a press briefing today.
💜 💙 It’s time to reimagine a better, fairer world. 💜 💙
Join
@BTS_twt
and UNICEF on 23 September for a very special message at the
#UNGA
.
#BTSLoveMyself
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-1.5 million confirmed cases & 80,000+ deaths as of 8 Apr 🌎
-NY state has more cases than any country outside US 🗽
-
#Wuhan
reopens 🔓
-
@WHO
: do not politicize
#COVID19
, unity is the only option 📢
-Brazil 🇧🇷, India 🇮🇳 see surge in new cases 📈
Today's
#coronavirus
recap
-500,000+ cases globally in 199 countries & territories 🌎
-21,000+ deaths total
-🇲🇱 🇰🇳 🇬🇼 report first
#COVID19
cases
-
#China
has no new local infections, closes borders to foreign nationals 🇨🇳
-US is epicenter of pandemic,
@nytimes
reports 📍
🚨 Breaking 🚨
Spain’s 🇪🇸 Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the country will be put on lockdown due to
#coronavirus
.
Additionally, the PM’s wife Begoña Gómez has tested positive for
#COVID19
.
🇪🇸 has 4,231 cases & 120 deaths so far.
Countries reporting the most
#COVID19
cases as of 24 April 🌎 👇
🇺🇸 USA 883k
🇪🇸 Spain 219k
🇮🇹 Italy 192k
🇫🇷 France 159k
🇩🇪 Germany 154k
🇬🇧 UK 144k
🇹🇷 Turkey 104k
🇮🇷 Iran 88k
🇨🇳 China 84k
🇷🇺 Russia 68k
🇧🇷 Brazil 51k
(Source:
@JHUSystems
)
#coronavirus
At today's
@WHO
briefing,
@DrTedros
urged for a stop to the siege & blockade of
#Tigray
, calling it "dreadful."
"Close to 7M [people have been] under siege for >18 months. There's no telecom, no banking services, no electricity, no medicine. [Only], a trickle of food and fuel."
@WHO
A total of 184,976 confirmed
#COVID19
cases and 7,529 deaths have been reported from 159 countries & territories 🌎.
These case counts reflect the latest numbers from the
@WHO
#coronavirus
dashboard as of 16:00 CET, 17 Mar 2020.
Link:
"This is the worst humanitarian crisis," says
@DrTedros
on the situation in
#Tigray
.
"More than 6M people have no access to food and medicine. We're not able to send medicine, and on top of that, there is no access to basic services, like banking, and telecom."
#PeaceforHealth
Yesterday,
@WHO
's director of health emergencies
@DrMikeRyan
called the situation in
#Tigray
"very upsetting" & access to medicines has not improved.
"Doctors working with patients with diabetes haven't been able to get basic insulin & diabetes treatments since last summer."
Today's
#coronavirus
recap
-3.3 million cases & 237,000+ deaths as of 1 May 🌎
-1,046,000+ recoveries 😷
-WHO:
#COVID19
has natural origins 🦠
-10+ US states reopen businesses 🇺🇸
-Ecuador's 🇪🇨 deaths still surging
-India extends lockdown 🇮🇳
-S. Africa eases restrictions 🇿🇦
Deaths from
#COVID19
as of 22 Feb via
@WHO
#coronavirus
🌎 Total: 2,361 deaths
🇨🇳 China: 2,348 deaths
🇮🇷 Iran: 5 deaths
🚢*: 2 deaths
🇰🇷 South Korea: 2 deaths
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1 death
🇯🇵 Japan: 1 death
🇫🇷 France: 1 death
🇮🇹 Italy: 1 death
*Diamond Princess ship
"The siege of 6 million people in Tigray by Eritrean & Ethiopian forces for over 500 days is one of the longest in modern history," says
@WHO
chief
@DrTedros
.
"No food has reached
#Tigray
since mid-December and almost no fuel has been delivered since August of last year."
Catch the latest episode of the
#AfricaHealthtechPodcast
! Prof.
@Kelly_Chibale
& Dr. Mathew Njoroge unpack the balance between innovation and ethics in healthcare. How can we ensure safety and equity in emerging tech? Tune in to find out:
"In
#Ethiopia
, not enough food is reaching those who need it most.
Since the declaration of the humanitarian truce in Tigray six weeks ago, just 172 trucks of aid were able to reach the region, representing just 4% of the need."
-
@DrTedros
on
#Tigray
at today's
@WHO
presser.
“I know that many people have to work every single day to win their daily bread...If we’re limiting movement, what is going to happen to these people? Each and every country, based on their situation, must answer this question.” -
@DrTedros
at
@WHO
#COVID19
briefing 30 Mar.
"Once again, we salute our health workers.
In the middle of this crisis, many
#healthworkers
are losing their lives to save others. And we salute you. All of the respect and appreciation from us."
-
@DrTedros
at
@WHO
press briefing on
#COVID19
today.
#coronavirus
An analogy to describe the ethical dilemma around
#COVID19
booster shots from
@WHO
director
@DrMikeRyan
:
"We're planning to hand out extra life jackets to people who already have life jackets and leaving other people to drown without a life jacket. That's the ethical reality."
"We will continue to do everything we can to provide essential life-saving support to all those affected by this crisis.
@WHO
and our partners ask for unfettered access to the affected regions [
#Tigray
]. The lives of millions of people are at stake,"
@DrTedros
said today,
At age 5, Neil Young contracted polio and was partially paralyzed on his left side.
Joni Mitchell got polio she was 9.
Both went on to make incredible music.
This year, they each took a heroic stand against vaccine misinformation.
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-2.4+ million cases & 160,000+ deaths as of 20 April 🌎
-Singapore 🇸🇬 sees 'second wave' of new infections 📈
-
@WHO
warns countries: lifting restrictions does not mean epidemic is over 🔓
-Italy's
#COVID19
cases drop ⬇
-Deaths surge in Ecuador 🇪🇨
Today,
@WHO
chief
@DrTedros
called for "unfettered humanitarian access" to
#Tigray
"to avert the humanitarian calamity and hundreds of thousands more people from dying" due to the blockade.
"The immediate need is for food, fuel and medicines to be allowed into the region."
"The
@WHO
will continue to work with every country and every partner to serve the people of the world with a relentless commitment to science, solutions and solidarity."
-
@DrTedros
at today's
#COVID19
briefing after Trump froze US funding for
#WHO
on Tuesday.
At the
@WHO
presser yesterday,
@DrTedros
read a letter from a physician in
#Tigray
, who says they have had to use expired antidiabetic drugs and tap water instead of IV fluids after running out.
"It's unimaginable...when a government is denying its own people medicine or food."
"There are a lot of candidate interventions going into clinical trials. Many are randomized controlled trials, where you really find out if something is safe & effective. Sometime in the summer we’ll see which are working,"
-Dr. Tony Fauci on
#COVID19
💊 at today's WH briefing
Yesterday,
@WHO
Director-General
@DrTedros
asked the governments of
#Ethiopia
and
#Eritrea
to end to the siege of
#Tigray
and allow humanitarian aid into the region.
"End the siege now, get supplies into the region on a regular and sustainable basis, and work for peace."
Today's
#coronavirus
recap:
-2.1 million cases & 135,000+ deaths as of 16 Apr 🌎
-540,000+ recovered 🏥
-UK 🇬🇧, Japan 🇯🇵 extend lockdowns
-
#COVID19
cases rise among 🇧🇷 indigenous groups
-Restrictions must be lifted 'extremely carefully' -
@WHO
🔒
-90k+ deaths in Europe 📈
"We need unfettered access to millions of people who are in desperate need," says
@WHO
's
@DrMikeRyan
.
Blocking humanitarian aid violates international law.
"Nowhere right now on this planet has that situation been more precisely illustrated than in
#Ethiopia
and
#Tigray
."
"At this stage, hydroxychloroquine has yet to be found effective in regards to
#COVID19
.
In fact, authorities have warned of potential side effects & many countries have limited its use to clinical trials," -
@WHO
director
@DrMikeRyan
on
#HCQ
at
#coronavirus
briefing 20 May (1/2)
#Coronavirus
in US at a glance:
🇺🇸 122,653 confirmed cases
🇺🇸 2,112 deaths
🇺🇸 CDC issues domestic travel advisory for NY, NJ & CT
🇺🇸 NYC mayor says city has one week's worth of medical supplies left.
#COVID19
case count via
@CDCgov
as of 29 Mar:
On mask-wearing in
#schools
,
@WHO
's
@DrMikeRyan
says
#masks
are useful as part of a comprehensive strategy, "but wearing a mask is not an alternative to physical distancing, it's not an alternative to hand washing, & it's not an alternative to decompressing class size."
#COVID19
Additionally, health officials in the following countries confirmed cases of
#COVID19
today:
-Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
-Iceland 🇮🇸
-Mexico 🇲🇽
-San Marino 🇸🇲
#coronavirus
#outbreak
Q: How does
#coronavirus
spread?
A: Through close contact (within 1-2 meters) and respiratory droplets 💦. If an infected person coughs or sneezes, the droplets can enter your body via the mouth, eyes, or nose and make you sick.
-
@mvankerkhove
at
@WHO
#COVID19
Q&A today.
"We acknowledge that there is emerging evidence in this field...and therefore, we believe we have to be open to this evidence and understand its implications regarding transmission & precautions,"
-
@allegranzib
of
@WHO
on airborne spread of
#COVID19
at a press briefing today.
Civilians who need medical attention are dying in
#Tigray
because they cannot access medicines, warns
@DrTedros
.
"We urge the Eritrean and Ethiopian forces to end the war...and I urge the international community to pay attention and resolve this problem."
Updates from
@DrTedros
at today's
@WHO
briefing on
#coronavirus
:
-95,265 confirmed cases of
#COVID19
globally & 3281 deaths.
-In past 24h,
#China
reported 143 cases + 33 other countries reported 2055 cases.
-Around 80% of new cases outside 🇨🇳 are from 3 countries: 🇮🇷 🇮🇹 🇰🇷
"It’s very important that we consider ALL the publications related to [a treatment]. And sometimes it can take several publications to get a full understanding. A lot more data will come out." -
@DrMikeRyan
warns not to draw conclusions about potential
#COVID19
drugs too early 💊
Weekend
#coronavirus
recap:
-1,200,000+ confirmed cases & 63,000+ deaths as of 5 Apr 🌍
-259,380+ recovered (
@JHUSystems
) 🏥
-
#COVID19
deaths seem to be slowing down in Italy, France, Spain 📊
-US tops 300,000 cases, no national lockdown yet 🇺🇸
-🇬🇧 PM Johnson in hospital 🩺
As of Tuesday morning 17 Mar, the United States has reported:
🇺🇸 4,482 confirmed
#COVID19
cases
🇺🇸 86 deaths
🇺🇸 Cases in 49 states + D.C.
🇺🇸 More than 50% of cases in 3 states: Washington, California, New York
"I don't know if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives.
All attention to
#Ukraine
is very important, of course. It impacts the whole world. But even a fraction of this is not being given to
#Tigray
, Yemen,
#Afghanistan
, Syria..."
-
@WHO
Chief
@DrTedros