COVID 19 Medtalks around the globe
Dr KK Aggarwal
President CMAAO, HCFI and Past
National President IMA
March 7
- 99
new cases and 2 new deaths in Spain [source] [source]
- 2
new cases in Saudi Arabia coming from Iran and Iraq [source]
- 24
new cases in Sweden [source]
- 2
new cases in Romania: [source]
- a 15-years-old young woman in in Timisoara attending the same school (but in another class) where 2 other students have already been diagnosed with Covid-19. She had a fever of 39.5 degrees and coughing, but her conditions are improving.
- the 16-years-old daughter of the 40-year-old man who tested positive in Hunedoara. They had also traveled on the same plane. She is asymptomatic for now - 4
new cases in Slovenia: [source]
- a Slovenian citizen who traveled to Italy (including Venice) for two weeks
- a close contact with an infected doctor from Metlika
- a Slovenian citizen who came from Austria, where he fell ill
a man who traveled through Italy to Spain with his family - 63
new cases and 2 new deaths in France [source]
- 1
new case in Poland: a person traveling with patient "zero" in the bus from
Germany to Poland [source]
- 60 new
cases in Belgium [source] bringing the total to
169 "Most of the positive patients have
recently traveled, but we are seeing more and more local infections,"
said a FPS Public Health official, adding that “the number of
cases detected has not doubled. It is therefore possible that the
return effect from travelers from northern Italy may end” [source]
- 1
new case in South Africa: a 39-year-old woman from Gauteng who was
part of the same group of 10 people that recently traveled from
Italy [source]
- 6
new cases in Bahrain [source]
- 3
new cases in India: 2 are from Ladakh with travel history to Iran and
one is from Tamil Nadu with travel history to Oman[source]
- 3
new cases in Afghanistan in the western province of Herat which
borders Iran. Afghanistan’s health ministry spokesman, Wahidullah
Mayar, expressed concern about the vulnerability of Afghanistan’s border
with Iran and added that the cost of testing would be a strain on
Afghanistan’s resource-strapped health system. Each test kit - which
can test around 50 cases - cost around $1600, he said [source]
- 1
new case in Croatia: a person in Varaždin who is a close contact of a previous case. "Patient
zero" in Croatia is a young man who came from Italy [source]
- 4
new cases in Finland: 2 adults in Pirkanmaa who were on the same traveling group
from northern Italy as those previously infected in
Finland, and 2 man in Uusimaa who returned from northern Italy [source]
- 3
new cases in Georgia "Please, don’t panic. There is no reason to panic”
said the Head of the Georgian National Centre for Disease Control Amiran
Gamkrelidze, noting that the most dangerous country for
Georgia for now is Italy as most people who have tested
positive for COVID-19 have arrived from there [source]
- 1,076
new cases and 21 new deaths in Iran [source]
- 47
new cases in Germany [source]
- 2
new cases in Slovakia: the son and wife of the man who was diagnosed yesterday. The son,
who had been to Venice, Italy between February 14 and 15
and did not show any symptoms of the virus, has been identified as
"patient zero" (the first contact patient in
Slovakia). All flights from the Slovak international airports to
Italy will be banned as of Monday, March 9 [source]
- 10
new cases in Malaysia [source]
- 1
new case in Vietnam: a 27-year-old patient who had been to the South Korean
city of Daegu, returned to Vietnam on a Vietjet flight on Wednesday
and was quarantined upon his landing, the ministry said in a
statement [source]
- 2
new cases in the Philippines of local transmission, prompting
the Department of Health to raise the nationwide alert level.
New cases are a 59-year-old man and a 62-year-old Filipino man from Cainta
(Rizal province) with no recent travel history abroad. The government's
contract tracing teams have yet to determine how he contracted the
virus [source]
- 1
new case in Qatar: a Qatari citizen who had returned from Iran recently [source]
- 1
new case in Hungary: a 70-year-old Hungarian man with pre-existing diseases, currently
being quarantined and treated at the Central Hospital of Southern Pest.
"He was probably infected by his son living abroad, who visited
him in mid-February after visiting Italy and Paris" according to
the Hungarian government's report [source]
- 2
new cases in Portugal: a 20-years-old and a 60-years-old women admitted to the hospital
in São João, both with connections to one of the infected people in the
same hospital [source]
- 3
new cases in Kuwait [source]
- 1st case in Malta:
a 12-year-old Italian girl who had returned, via Rome, from a holiday trip
with her family in northern Italy on Tuesday. She was in
self-quarantine and is now isolated in an infectious diseases unit
at Mater Dei Hospital. “The children did not go to school and
the parents did not go to work or leave the house. Their contact with
other people was minimal” [source]
- 2
new cases in Thailand: “both are Thai males aged 40" according to the Ministry of
Public Health [source]
- 2
new cases in Algeria: 1 belongs to the same family as the 16 already infected last
week; 1 comes from Europe (specific country not provided) [source]
- 1
new case in Greece: a 48-years old man in the Sterea region who was part of the group
returning from a trip in Israel and Egypt [source]
- 1
new case in Ecuador [source]
- 8
new cases in Austria [source]
- 2
new cases in Switzerland [source]
- 7
new cases in Norway [source]
- 15
new cases in Japan [source] [source]
- 1
new case in Brazil: a patient in Rio de Janeiro who had recently traveled
abroad [source]
- 16
new cases and 2 new deaths in the United States:
1 new case in
California (Alameda County): a former passenger on the now-quarantined Grand
Princess cruise ship, an older adult who has underlying health
conditions and is currently hospitalized. Alameda County’s Public Health
Department is urging all residents who were on the Grand Princess cruise from
Feb. 11 to Feb. 21 to get tested if they are experiencing any symptoms [source]
First 2 cases in
South Carolina: an elderly woman in Kershaw County who has been hospitalized and an
adult woman from Charleston County who had recently traveled to France
and Italy [source]
1st case in
Hawaii: a former passenger of the Grand Princess cruise ship (that docked on
Oahu in late February) who did not feel well after a few days after returning
home and went to see their doctor. The Department of Health said, “We don’t
believe the patient had close contact with anyone else, but we’re still
investigating.” [source]
1 in New Jersey: a male in his 50s
hospitalized at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in
Bergen County [source]
- 448
new cases and 5
new deaths in South Korea [source]
- 1
new case in New Zealand: a woman in her 40s, partner of the third
case [source]
- 1
new case in Australia (Victoria): a doctor who had recently returned from
the US [source]
- 99
new cases (74
in Hubei), 28 new deaths (all in Hubei) and 1,678
new discharges occurred in China on March 6, as
reported by the National Health Commission (NHC) of China. [source]
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