US, CDC data 1918
50 million worldwide
US deaths, 675,000
Cases, 27,993,504
Deaths, 498,993
(589,000 cumulative deaths on June 1, 2021)
Past 7 days
New daily reported cases, down 19.5%
New daily reported deaths, 15.5%
CoViD related hospitalizations, down 13.2%
Test positivity rate, 5%
Vaccine doses since 14th December, 65,032,000
Two doses, 19,882,000 (6.9%)
UK reopens
UK, 17.7 million doses of vaccine
England, lockdown began 4th January
Four-step plan, could see all legal limits on social contact lifted by 21 June
Boris Johnson
cautious but irreversible
Decisions, data not dates
Minimum of 5 weeks apart
Time required for review of effects
no credible route to a zero-Covid Britain nor indeed a zero-Covid world
Step One
England, From 8 March
All schools and colleges will open
Twice weekly testing, with masks in secondary schools
Outside, with 2 people, tea, picnic
England, From 29 March
Outdoor gatherings, six people or two households
Including private gardens
Outdoor sports allowed
Step Two
From 12 April
Pubs and restaurants open for outdoor drinking and eating
Non-essential retail opens, hairdressers and some public buildings like libraries
Outdoor settings like alcohol takeaways, beer gardens, zoos and theme parks
Indoor leisure like swimming pools and gyms
Self-contained holiday accommodation, and camp sites
Still no indoor mixing between different households
Review of international leisure travel, announced by 12 April at the earliest
Funerals, up to 30 people, weddings up to 15 guests
Step Three
From 17 May, at the earliest
If the data allows
Outdoor, up to 30 people
Two households can mix indoors
Pubs and restaurants, eating inside, rule of six
Cinemas, museums, hotels, open
Up to 10,000 spectators outdoor
consider the potential role of Covid status certification
Step Four
From 21 June
Potentially see all legal limits on social contact removed
Nightclubs
Restrictions on weddings and funerals will also be abolished
Myanmar
Lancet 19th February
Military coup, Feb 1, 2021
Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)
Clinical services have drastically diminished, leading to a health system suddenly in crisis.
Decades of underinvestment in public sector
Private and charity hospitals used, but limited
Busy public emergency departments
Were performing screening, testing, and early critical care for COVID-19
Immunisation programme had commenced
Mass public rallies and protests
Public compliance and goodwill for isolation
Myanmar risks profound health system collapse
Global isolation and sanctions
North Korea
Germany, Belgium, Dominican Republic, Estonia, France, UK, US, Japan
stripped of nearly all their human rights, including the freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, association, movement, and religion or belief
appalling and gets worse by the day
Prioritizing its nuclear weapons program over the needs of its people
longstanding, systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights, serious threat, to international security
isolation from the international community is inevitably worsening the impacts of the pandemic on the North Korean population
Dr. Choi Jung Hun, defected in 2012
The health care system is very weak.
They don't want to show that to the world.
North Korea is a museum of viruses
Kim Jong Un
Not a single coronavirus case on North Korean soil
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