Rolling daily average COVID cases on the increase
(CNS): The seven-day rolling average for new cases of COVID-19 has increased to 40, the Public Health Department said Monday, after falling into the 20s earlier this month. Around 100 new cases were reported to officials this weekend. There are an estimated 478 active cases and three people are in hospital.
while the number is far less than the February peak, when some 7,000 people were locked down due to the spread of the coronavirus, this increase comes against the backdrop of a surge in cases in the UK.
On Friday, coronavirus levels reached all-time highs in Scotland and Wales and were nearing record levels in England, with around 4.2 million people infected across the UK last week. Officials in the UK said that the steep rise in infections is due to Omicron BA.2, a more transmissible variant of the virus.
On Monday, officials in Shanghai began its phased lockdown as an Omicron-fuelled COVID-19 wave spreads through mainland China’s financial hub, resulting in the highest caseloads in the country since the early days of the pandemic.
The World Health Organization has also recorded an increase in cases around the world from the middle of this month, bucking the worldwide trend of declining cases since January as a result of this latest and most infectious strain to date.
While the variant appears to be considerably less virulent than earlier strains, the suspension of COVID-19 protocols in numerous countries around the world and the opening of borders is enabling the virus to continue spreading.
Even though most people, and especially the vaccinated, have little to worry about, the risk of severe infection remains for the more vulnerable or unvaccinated, given the increase in transmission, as nations attempt to live with the virus and relax protocols.
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The FDA has today authorised a second coronavirus booster shot for people 50 and older. Compare to Boris Johnson’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), that are looking way out to Autumn 2022 before considering a fourth booster. Who is right? Who’s “science” is better?
Actually, the UK has been giving second boosters since the last week in February and it is available in other Overseas Territories like Bermuda as well. The FDA’s decision is good news for those at risk in the US. If only we had such competent advisors.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-spring-booster-resources/a-guide-to-the-spring-booster-for-those-aged-75-years-and-older-residents-in-care-homes
So, I just got back from Ultra where I partied all weekend with 165,000 of my closest friends. Might go on a cruise next. Get over it.
Please grant Health and of course health is a personal choice.
Release the second booster already!!!
The UK, Bermuda and elsewhere have begun administering the second booster? Cayman – an experiment with more genetic sequencing rather than disease prevention.
Likely to be more now that cruise ship passengers are free to roam and spread.
Who could have seen a rise in Covid coming when not only thousands of unmasked cruise shippers are allowed to roam freely and businesses allow them inside?
Who would have guessed that 500 people at an indoor event at the Ritz may spread the virus?
It will spread anyway and then fall and then rise again. I guess you haven’t noticed the only way to stop it is total isolation, forever.
Passengers and crew members tested positive for COVID-19 aboard a 15-day Princess Cruise trip to the Panama Canal that returned Sunday to the Port of San Francisco.
Those affected aboard the ship the Ruby Princess were either asymptomatic or showed mild symptoms of COVID-19 and were isolated and quarantined, Princess Cruises said in a statement. The cruise line did not say how many guests and crew members tested positive, or at what point in the trip they did so.
The ship has since departed San Francisco for a 15-day cruise to Hawaii.
The cruise line requires guests to show a negative COVID-19 test and proof that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days before the start of the trip. Vaccination rates for guests and crew members on the Ruby Princess were at 100%, Princess Cruises said.
The Port of San Francisco also requires that at least 95% of both passengers and crew members onboard are vaccinated.
The cruise line said guests with positive test results who had not completed the required isolation period had returned home or were provided hotel rooms for isolation and quarantine.
Princess Cruises suspended voyages for more than a year after COVID-19 outbreaks in 2020. Coronavirus cases remain relatively flat nationwide, but health experts are concerned about a potential rise linked to the new BA.2 COVID-19 variant.
The CDC was not immediately available for comment and a dashboard that tracks ships’ COVID-19 test positivity rates has not been updated since Thursday.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Quarantining? How 2020. In England you can test positive and then just down the pub as normal.
Welcome back cruisers smh well done Kenneth
It will rise sharply soon. Courtesy of cruise ships,
Hey think of those dollars they spending though right?
the elephant in the room is cayman’s poor booster take up which will lead to more deathe in the sick and elderly
cig messed up by not rewarding people who got vaccinated and instead put them under the same restrictions as the unvaxxed.
why get vaxxed?
Agreed. Government should have different rewards/ rules for vaccinated versus unvaccinated.
The level of boosted immunity would be much higher if the Ministry would simply release the second booster for those at greater risk. That alone would reduce the surge but it appears that the Ministry is going ahead with an experiment to deny access to the second booster in order to see how fast the virus will spread as immunity drops.
Oh hush! The ‘booster’ is just more of the same stuff that wanes after a few weeks. Ever heard of risk/benefit analysis?
Most countries are counting two shots as fully vaccinated and unlikely to introduce boosters as a quantifier, because it will never end.
40 reported!
The worse is yet to come with more virus cases and plenty increase in the cost of living and M P’s will give themselves another 16 % raise of pay. And old pensioners and old seaman will suffer more.
Vaccinated little to worry about? Oh just 1,000 deaths per week in the UK, mostly among the vaccinated… Not to mention constant reinfections and long covid.
Where do you get those figures from, that’s nonsense. Numbers of vaccinated people in hospital and dyingare very low. Those in hospital are mainly in for other reasons and have often caught it after being admitted. The difference here is stark – lots of people infected, pretty much all of them only suffering cold or flu symptoms. Anti-virals keeping the vulnerable from becoming very ill.
Mostly amongst the vaccinated? Except that its mostly amongst the unvaccinated in every age group below 70, and the death rate amongst boosted vaccinated is way lower than vaccinated or unvaccinated.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsinvolvingcovid19byvaccinationstatusengland/deathsoccurringbetween1january2021and31january2022
“Mostly among the vaccinated”!
Where did you get that fake news from?
Covid Weekly Surveillance report week Feb 27, 2022 – March 20, 2022. Deaths within 28 days of covid infection:
Age range 18-29: Vaccinated deaths 9, unvaccinated 2
Age range 30-39: Vaccinated deaths 16, unvaccinated 9
Age range 40-49: Vaccinated deaths 28, unvaccinated 5
Age range 50-59: Vaccinated deaths 73, unvaccinated 18
Age range 60-69: Vaccinated deaths 151, unvaccinated 24
Age range 70-79: Vaccinated deaths 423, unvaccinated 42
Age range 80+: Vaccinated deaths 1383, unvaccinated 102