Coronavirus Update: Brazil, the Next Epicenter similar to USA
COVID-19 Nucleic acid test for 10 million more people in China Wuhan
In order to get a clear understand of the real coronavirus infection situation in current Wuhan City, the local government of Wuhan decided to do nucleic acid test to all Wuhan residents in 10 days from May 14th. At present, about 90% population of Wuhan City have been collected samples for the test, which means that about 10 million samples have been collected compared to the 11 million permanent residents in Wuhan.
Till May 22nd, the total tested were 5.4 million, and only 159 asymptomatic infections found, which means the infection and spread of Coronavirus is almost controlled and contained in Wuhan, the first pandemic center.
As known, the United States Trump government always says they have the top level test capacity , but only 7 million tested in past 2 month. What on earth happened, no one knows, god bless the US people. The best guess is that it is a strategy to control the confirmed number increment in a slow way in order to keep the people not be shocked by a sudden peak, and allow the domestic health care organization and manufacture to treat those confirmed patient progressively. Anyway, it is a way to lost lives.
After the test, it gives enough confidence to all Chinese to return to work, and try get back to normal life activities, shopping, restaurant, travel and etc.
Fail Of Herd-Immunity in Sweden
CNN report said that Sweden is still nowhere near “Herd Immunity”, even though it didn’t go into lockdown. Facing the novel coronavirus epidemic that ravaged the world, Sweden tried to achieve the final victory against the epidemic through “group immunity”, called as “Herd Immunity” as well. This move was called a “big gamble” in the response to the epidemic by the American Forbes magazine and other media.
According to a recent study published by the Swedish Public Health Agency, as of the end of April, only 7.3% of residents in the country ’s capital Stockholm carried antibodies of Coronavirus. This data is much lower than the government ’s estimate of 20%, and it is far from the true “group immunity” . Generally accepted view about group immunity in the international public health field is that a country or region needs 70% to 90% of the people to carry antibodies, then it will be able to achieve the effect of “group immunity”.
At the same time, Sweden’s deaths due to novel Coronavirus have exceeded the sum of several neighboring countries, and the death toll from covid-19 per million population has become the highest in Europe. Although the Swedish Ministry of Health is still explaining the rationality of its policies, the “anti-epidemic transcript” is indisputably dazzling, and many media evaluated the Swedish anti-epidemic with the capital “FAIL” (failure) Patterns and results.
Brazil, The Total Confirmed Grew up to 365,213, the top 1 of South America.
No one knows it is lucky or not, Brazil has a president similar to Trump, who do not care the health and lives of the people. As a result the confirmed cases in Brazil become the second in the world, and first in South America.
Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergency Program, said at a regular press conference on the 22nd that in a sense, South America has now become the epicenter of the new global coronavirus epidemic, of which the most affected Seriously, Brazil.
Although the Brazilian epidemic is at risk of running out of control, Bossonaro has been taking the same steps as above, without taking a half step, and has always declared to the public that this is nothing more than a “little flu.”
Because of different epidemic prevention concepts, Bosonaro spared no effort to replace the Minister of Health twice within a month. Health Minister Nelson Teich, who was very optimistic about Bosonaro, announced his resignation on the 15th, less than a month after he took office.
The main reason for Teich’s resignation was the disagreement with Bossonaro about the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus epidemic. Teich believes that people’s comprehensive home isolation is an effective measure to suppress the spread of the new coronavirus, but Bosonaro believes that the isolation measures should be relaxed to comprehensively damage the economic development.
On the 24th, Trump ordered the implementation of travel control measures against Brazil. Non-US citizens who stayed in Brazil within the past 14 days are not allowed to enter the country. White House Press Secretary McNee issued a statement that day, saying the move is a “decisive measure” to protect the United States to ensure that foreign travelers from Brazil will not become a new source of infection in the United States. This travel restriction measure will take effect at 23:59 on May 28th, Eastern Time. The measure does not apply to permanent residents of the United States and does not affect the business transactions between the United States and Pakistan.
However, the outbreak of the Brazilian epidemic is not a one-off event. The rapid increase in data now may be due to the accumulation of previous large-scale community transmission. Brazilian media said recently that there may be a delay of up to two months in the figures released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. This is due to the insufficient number of test boxes and the long queue of samples waiting to be tested.
Janpan Lifted Lockdown totally
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced today that starting on the 25th, the state of emergency in the four capital counties including Tokyo and Hokkaido will be lifted.
This signifies that all 47 prefectures in Japan will lift the ban. However, Abe also added, “If the virus infection speeds up, it will be possible to re-emerge.”
After the declaration was lifted, the Japanese government will strive to avoid the appearance of closed, dense, and intimate “three secrets,” and fix “new lifestyles” such as wearing masks.
The government will conduct an assessment of the region ’s infection approximately every three weeks. In order to prepare for the second wave of outbreaks, it plans to strengthen the medical and testing system. By the end of May, it will continue to demand the avoidance of unnecessary and non-urgent movements across prefectures and counties.
USA: Trump Played Golf when total deaths go to about 100,000
On the 23rd local time, as the number of deaths from COVID-19 approached 100,000, US President Trump was fiercely criticized by US public opinion for playing golf.
However, Trump did not intend to accept criticism. On the 24th, he appeared on the golf course again.
Public opinion was unbearable. Biden, the presidential candidate of the United States Democratic Party and former vice president Biden, criticized Trump for two consecutive days.
At the same time, Trump’s video that attacked former President Obama was exposed by the media. When the Ebola epidemic occurred in the United States in 2014, Trump attacked then-president Obama “going to play golf regardless of the epidemic”. “Obama is not competent enough. If he becomes president, he will indulge in work and not play golf.