news COVID-19 [Day 1600]

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After 250+ days with zero local COVID cases, Macau reports 12 locally-transmitted cases.

 

FYI, nearly 700 000 people are squeezed into 33 km2 of land, so they had been pretty impressive. 

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Taiwanese health authorities have come under fire from insurance companies and consumers for changes to testing, and shortened quarantine requirements that could affect the ability of people to collect payouts.

A rush to get hard copies of positive Covid tests to submit to insurance claims resulted in long lines at hospitals, which added more pressure on Taiwan’s already-stained testing capacity. That was before insurers said they would accept digital certificates.

“Our pandemic policies have never taken insurance firms into account. We only think about how to take good care of patients,” Taiwan’s health minister, Chen Shih-chung, said during a recent daily Covid briefing.

Taiwan’s Covid insurance situation is the most recent example of a trend that has swept through the region. In China, sellers of “quarantine insurance” pulled the plug on the products as millions across the country were locked down amid a recent wave of Omicron infections. Japanese insurance companies that offer Covid products have either raised premiums or discontinued sales, while in Thailand, several insurance companies ceased operations after being overwhelmed by claims over Covid products.

“It’s more like a gamble than an insurance product,” said Po-Lin Wang, who previously worked for a Taiwanese insurance company and now teaches risk management and insurance at the University of South Florida.

 

 

Edited June 19, 2022 by Genius1111

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Edited June 19, 2022 by Genius1111

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ICU cases and deaths have come down by a lot (single digit deaths, low double digit ICU cases) but cases rebounded.

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In late summer 2021, during the Delta wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation issued a disturbing wake-up call: According to its calculations, more than 11 million Americans were already experiencing long COVID. The academy’s dashboard has been updated daily ever since, and now pegs that number at 25 million.

 

Even this may be a major undercount. The dashboard calculation assumes that 30 percent of COVID patients will develop lasting symptoms, then applies that rate to the 85 million confirmed cases on the books. Many infections are not reported, though, and blood antibody tests suggest that 187 million Americans had gotten the virus by February 2022. (Many more have been infected since.) If the same proportion of chronic illness holds, the country should now have at least 56 million long-COVID patients. That’s one for every six Americans.

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He is the 2nd Cabinet minister from Singapore to contract COVID overseas. 

 

 

I think only 1 cabinet minister and 2 MPs contracted COVID domestically.

 

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0 deaths in Malaysia for the first time since Dec 18 2020. 

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“During an earlier phone conversation, one of my sources cried a little bit when she said she was worried that some bad things could happen in her family (because of COVID-19). But now she and others have become stable and sometimes laugh when we talk on the phone,” Kang said.

During a recent ruling party meeting, Kim said the country’s pandemic fight has passed the stage of “unexpected serious crisis.” State media have urged the public to rally behind Kim in a firmer way to overcome the pandemic completely.

Cho Joonghoon, a spokesperson for South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which oversees relations with North Korea, told reporters last week that the North may announce its COVID-19 crisis has been resolved this month.

Nam, the South Korean professor, said the outbreak appears to have eased in Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, but will likely continue in rural areas, where some people with symptoms are venturing out of doors because they rely on market activities for a living and have no access to public rations.

“I think North Korea will declare a victory over the pandemic a bit later. It would lose face if it proclaimed victory too soon and new patients cropped up afterwards,” Nam said.

 

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About 30 per cent of the Covid-19 cases in the community in the past week were cases with BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, as compared to 17 per cent and 3 per cent for the previous two weeks respectively. 

 

 

 

 

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