Hong Kong health authorities have confirmed a record high number of locally-transmitted cases, about 50 of which can’t be traced to a previous infection.
“Given the high baseline rate and [that] there is no sign of abatement of this trajectory and that real-time reproductive number of three to four, I think that we have now, or we have already entered Hong Kong’s first sustained local outbreakâ€, Leung said.
But the measures being taken now are precisely to avoid seeing the kind of death tolls currently overseas, and the government has learned a lot since the first round of lockdowns, he says, including new medications, and new understandings of how to care for patients.
Coatsworth is asked about the Australian government Covid-19 app, which seeks to identify close contacts of people diagnosed.
He says the more people who download and run the app the fewer transmissions of Covid-19 there will be.
Some more details from NSW, where authorities are working to track and trace cases clusters around a pub in Casula, while also working to ensure cases haven’t been brought in from Victoria (given recent school holiday activity)
There are 72 Covid-19 cases being treated by NSW Health, with one in intensive care, the NSW government said
Western Australia has detected one new coronavirus case, bringing the state’s total to 635
WA now has 22 active Covid-19 cases, and all are returning travellers in mandatory hotel quarantine
Analysts forecast China will be the only major economy to experience positive growth this year - partly because it was first to be hit by Covid-19 and therefore first to recover
According to a poll of analysts conducted by Agence France Presse, China returned to growth in the second quarter after the coronavirus pandemic handed the world’s second largest economy its first contraction in decades
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 248 to 198,804, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday
The reported Covid-19 death toll rose by three to 9,063, the tally showed
One new case has been reported in New Zealand, a woman in her 20s who flew in from Rome, via Doha and Sydney, last week
The ministry of health said she had been in managed isolation at the Christchurch Commodore Airport Hotel and is now in quarantine
It has been 72 days since the last case of Covid-19 was acquired locally from an unknown source
New Zealand has had 1,194 confirmed cases, 25 of which remain active (none are receiving hospital level care)
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