#Covid19 Update: Wednesday, 1st April, 2020 #globalvirusupdate, @davidlim, #davidlimnz

#Covid19 Update: Wednesday, 1st April, 2020

Source: Sources:

WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC of the PRC, JHU CSSE, DXY and others

	Location	Confirmed	Cases/1 million	Recovered	Deaths
	Worldwide	797,490	113.18	161,542	38,540
	United States	164,406	502.64	5,945	3,172
	Italy	101,739	1,610.68	14,620	11,591
	Spain	94,417	1,905.48	19,259	8,189
	China	81,518	59.36	76,052	3,305
	Germany	67,051	816.33	6,522	657
	Iran	44,605	550.73	14,656	2,898
	France	43,973	650.81	7,202	3,018
	United Kingdom	22,141	341.19	135	1,408
	Switzerland	16,016	2,360.50	2,105	381
	Belgium	11,899	1,154.43	1,527	513
	Netherlands	11,750	721.56	0	864
	Turkey	10,827	129.35	162	168
	Austria	9,851	1,257.15	636	108
	South Korea	9,786	191.73	5,408	162
	Canada	7,435	215.18	1,079	89
	Portugal	6,408	600.18	43	140
	Israel	4,831	423.65	163	17
	Brazil	4,661	22.61	127	165
	Australia	4,561	199.27	226	19
	Norway	4,465	837.89	0	32
	Sweden	4,122	410.07	18	166
	Czechia	3,001	281.79	25	23
	Denmark	2,815	507.3	0	77
	Malaysia	2,766	83.24	537	43
	Ireland	2,615	500.65	5	46
	Russia	2,337	16.32	121	17
	Romania	2,245	104.59	220	69
	Chile	2,139	122.37	75	7
	Poland	2,132	57.34	35	31
	Philippines	2,084	19.99	49	88
	Luxembourg	1,988	2,483.18	40	22
	Ecuador	1,890	114.16	3	57
	Japan	1,866	14.72	404	54
	Pakistan	1,865	9.28	58	25
	Thailand	1,651	24.65	342	10
	Indonesia	1,528	5.86	81	136
	Saudi Arabia	1,453	51.39	115	8
	India	1,417	1.12	140	47
	New Zealand	600	133.86	74	1

Does Wearing a Mask Protect You from the Flu and Other Viruses? #coronavirusnz, #covid19nz, #nzlockdown @davidlim

Does Wearing a Mask Protect You from the Flu and Other Viruses?

When the United States experienced an outbreak of the swine flu in 2009, everyone was talking about how to reduce the spread of the virus.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Trusted Source, vaccine availability was limited that year because the virus wasn’t identified until manufacturers had already started producing the annual vaccine.

So, people started doing something most of us hadn’t really seen before to stop transmission: wearing surgical face masks.

But with the recent spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, people are again looking to surgical face masks as a way of protecting themselves and others from the virus, which causes the disease COVID-19.

But does wearing a face mask really prevent the spread of viruses, such as the flu or SARS-CoV-2?


We’ll look at recommendations from experts, unpack the research on which masks are most effective, and explain how to use masks properly.

See full article at the link.

What Really Works to Keep The Coronavirus Away? #Covid19virus, #coronavirusnz, #drmobileslimited, #iphonerepair

What Really Works to Keep The Coronavirus Away?

BRIAN LABUS, THE CONVERSATION6 MARCH 2020

The World Health Organization has declared that COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has a higher fatality rate than the flu. As of March 4, 2020, nine deaths have been reported in the US.

Brian Labus, a professor of public health, provides essential safety information for you, from disinfectants to storing food and supplies.

1. What can I do to prevent becoming infected?
When people are sick with a respiratory disease like COVID-19, they cough or sneeze particles into the air. If someone is coughing near you, the virus could easily land on your eyes, nose or mouth. These particles travel only about six feet (1.8 meters) and fall out of the air rather quickly.

However, they do land on surfaces that you touch all the time, such as railings, doorknobs, elevator buttons or subway poles. The average person also touches their face 23 times per hour, and about half of these touches are to the mouth, eyes, and nose, which are the mucosal surfaces that the COVID-19 virus infects.

We public health professionals can't stress this enough: Proper hand-washing is the best thing you can do to protect yourself from a number of diseases including COVID-19. While hand-washing is preferred, hand sanitizers with at least a 60 percent alcohol concentration can be an effective alternative to always using soap and water, but only if your hands are not visibly soiled.

Read the full article here.