Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 09May 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Summary:
Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January hig
The Leader Newspaper
Barcelo confirms the Constitution holiday affected the spread of the virus
The Minister of Health, Ana Barceló, confirmed this Wednesday that the December Constitution holiday weekend “has interrupted” the fall in coronavirus infections that the Valencian Community had registered in the last four weeks. However, she clarified: “It is not that there is widespread growth but we are not decreasing.”
In a statement she confirmed that on Thursday they will meet to discuss the new epidemiological situation to determine whether new restrictions should be applied for Christmas because the measures “are always flexible”.
She pointed out that yesterday’s data, which showed 2,841 positives, “is not good” – it sets a new record for infections – and interrupts a fall in the curve that we have seen for the last four weeks in a row.