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<ul class="summary-list"><li>China posted a record number of daily Covid cases on Wednesday, amid a surge in the Omicron strain.</li><li>It stepped up lockdowns in affected areas such as Zhengzhou, home to the world's largest iPhone plant.</li></ul>Zhengzhou, a city in east-central China and home to the world's largest Apple iPhone factory, will largely be locked down from Friday until next Tuesday, local authorities said <a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KwNbW4ioF2pLy40KQQa-5g">late on Wednesday.</a>The restrictions come amid a surge of COVID-19 infections in China. Officials in Zhengzhou are calling the situation — which is mainly concentrated in the urban regions — "still severe and complicated." China is experiencing a severe outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, mounting a challenge to the country's draconian <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-zero-covid-policy-lockdowns-global-economy-vaccine-treatments-pandemic-2022-8">Covid-zero</a> stance. China reported a record high 31,444 local infections for Wednesday, including asymptomatic cases, according to the country's <a href="http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqfkdt/202211/e81e0b0f7499477186e560696f1af64e.shtml">National Health Commission</a>.The relentless drive to stamp out Covid is driving discontent in the country — including at Apple's largest iPhone-making factory in Zhengzhou, where <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/videos-appear-show-workers-rioting-zhengzhou-foxconn-iphone-plant-china-2022-11">workers were reportedly rioting</a> against pandemic restrictions on Wednesday.The surge in COVID-19 cases is also casting doubts on whether the world's second-largest economy will be able to completely exit the pandemic.Earlier this month, the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-01/tech-leads-broad-rally-in-chinese-stocks-after-historic-rout">Chinese stock markets</a> rallied on speculation that the country was preparing to loosen its Covid-zero stance. But that optimism now appears to be misguided, because there are not enough hospital intensive care unit, or ICU, beds for a widespread outbreak in China, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-23/china-faces-slow-covid-zero-exit-to-avoid-swamping-hospitals?srnd=premium-asia">Bloomberg Intelligence</a> said on Wednesday."There's no way an uncontrolled wave of infections can be managed" Bloomberg Intelligence senior pharmaceutical analyst Sam Fazeli in the report. "This reinforces the need for local infection control, including closing of businesses, prolonging China's reopening."He estimates a full reopening of China's economy is likely to stretch beyond 2023.Even the <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/11/21/pr22401-imf-staff-completes-2022-article-iv-mission-to-the-peoples-republic-of-china">International Monetary Fund</a> called on China to adjust its COVID-19 strategy in order to support the economy."Going forward, a further recalibration of the COVID strategy should be well prepared and include boosting the pace of vaccinations and maintaining it at a high level to ensure that protection is preserved," said First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath in a statement.Despite the surge in COVID-19 infections in China, the Chinese and Hong Kong markets are flat at midday on Thursday.

China locks down major iPhone making city as Covid cases jump to a record high, sparking concerns that lockdowns could stretch beyond 2023

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Tuesday, <keyword id="213397" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="British-Columbia">British Columbia</keyword>, Canada, and <keyword id="19027" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Minnesota">Minnesota</keyword> recorded their highest number of daily COVID-19 <keyword id="6418348" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="infections">infections</keyword> since January.</li><li>Highly infectious <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> <keyword id="112799" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="variants">variants</keyword> are partly to blame.</li><li>Younger people are getting infected more than other age groups in both regions.</li></ul>Officials in Canada and Minnesota have warned of surging COVID-19 cases fueled by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-variants-uk-south-africa-brazil-us-facts-questions-2021-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highly infectious coronavirus variants</a>, with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/canada-3rd-covid-19-wave-young-people-new-variants-2021-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mostly younger people infected. </a>Minnesota recorded more than 2,600 new daily cases on Monday, <a href="https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Minnesota Department of Health,</a> its highest tally since January. Hospitalizations were up 37% from two weeks earlier, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/minnesota-covid-cases.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the New York Times</a> reported.British Columbia (BC), the province on the west coast of Canada that shares a 1,300-mile land border with the US, recorded more than 1,000 daily cases on Tuesday for the first time since January, Adrian Dix, BC minister of <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">health</keyword>, <a href="https://twitter.com/adriandix?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said on Twitter. </a>Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota said Wednesday that "the variant is adding on to what would have been an increase in cases anyway, but it surely is adding on in a very powerful way," <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/06/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-cases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the New York Times.</a>Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker-top-covid-shots-to-watch-in-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker: AstraZeneca's shot proves safe and effective, and is headed to the FDA</a>A coronavirus variant called B.1.1.7, first identified in the UK, is 30% to 50% more contagious, and partly to blame for the rise in Minnesotan cases. It's also the most common coronavirus variant in the US overall, with <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant-cases.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 16,000 cases reported</a>.B.1.1.7 is<a href="http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/about-covid-19/variants" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> the most common variant</a> in British Columbia (BC), accounting for more than 2,800 of more than 105,000 coronavirus infections.But BC officials are most concerned by rising numbers of people infected with P.1, the variant first found in Brazil, which is about 50% more infectious and able to evade the immune response, meaning people can get re-infected. There are 877 cases of P.1 in BC currently."I believe that there's going to be kind of a race between [B.1.1.7] and P.1 over the next few weeks," Daniel Coombs, a mathematics professor with expertise in epidemic modeling at the University of British Columbia, told<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-variant-from-brazil-has-taken-hold-in-canada-11617729538" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> the Wall Street Journal</a>. "And P.1 appears to be catching up."Lockdown restrictions in BC were tightened on April 1.The famous Whistler ski resort to the north of Vancouver was forced to shut at the end of last month.Meanwhile, kids in Minnesota were encouraged to test <a href="https://twitter.com/mnhealth/status/1377413352012529670" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least every two weeks</a> to stop infections spreading.<h2>Younger people infected the most</h2>Most new cases in BC are in younger people aged between 20 to 29. In Minnesota, the majority of new cases are in 20 to 24 year olds.Dr. Ruth Lynfield, a state epidemiologist, told th<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/06/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-cases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">e New York Times</a> that there was a notable rise in cases in those aged 10 to 19, who accounted for about one in six new cases between mid-February and the end of March, compared with just one in nine over October and November. At CentraCare, a health provider in Minnesota, 70% of patients are under 65,<a href="https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-covid-19-hospitalizations-have-nearly-doubled-since-late-feb/600042558/"> the Star Tribune</a> reported. "That was unheard of when we were at the peak of last fall and winter," Dr. George Morris, physician incident commander for COVID-19 response at CentraCare, told the paper Tuesday.The figures do not indicate severity of illness, but some people have been hit with serious complications from the virus, Morris said."It is not that these people are just sitting in the hospital in a bed, they are in the hospital, in the ICU," Morris said. "Ten of them are on ventilators. These are young adults and they are there for a long period of time." The relatively higher number of younger adults catching coronavirus could be due to the vaccine rollout - 32% of Americans and 15% of Canadians have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Oxford University's Our World in Data</a>, and both countries <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-eligible-covid-vaccine-timeline-cdc-states-2021-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have prioritized older people.</a>Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm told reporters Tuesday that Minnesota likely won't see as severe a spike as it saw in November and December, thanks to vaccinations. But Minnesota was "definitely not out of the woods yet", she said.

Coronavirus variants are ripping through Canada and Minnesota, and they're infecting younger people most, officials warn

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6363645" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="spain">Spain</keyword> reported its lowest daily <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> death toll since mid-March. </li><li>The country is gradually easing up on lockdown restrictions, in which 51% of Spain's population will enter the first phase of a four-step reopening plan on Monday. </li><li>It will include permitted gatherings of up to 10 people and movement around provinces. The government also allowed public transportation and restaurant reopenings under strict social distancing rules. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Half of Spain's population prepares for easing lockdown restrictions as the country reports its lowest daily coronavirus death toll since mid-March, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-idUSKBN22M09H">Reuters reported. </a>Spain's emergency health chief Fernando Simon <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-idUSKBN22M09H">announced at a press conference</a> that the daily coronavirus deaths is 143 down from 179 on Saturday, the lowest its been since March 18."We continue with the downward trend reported in recent days," Simon said.Overall deaths rose to 26,621 from 26,478 on Saturday and the number of diagnosed coronavirus cases rose to 224,390 from 223,578 the day before, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/05/10/world/europe/10reuters-health-coronavirus-spain.html">the Health Ministry added. </a>Spain was among the countries that are worse-hit by the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-live-updates-latest-news">coronavirus pandemic.</a> Pedro Sanchez, the country's prime minister, initially introduced a two-week lockdown on March 14. But that lockdown was repeatedly extended after seeing its death toll doubled in just three days on March 23, and the country struggled to cope with rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases throughout April, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/italy-spain-france-declines-daily-coronavirus-death-tolls-nationwide-lockdowns-2020-4">Business Insider previously reported.</a> As of May 10, Spain <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/">has recorded</a> more than 260,000 cases and more than 26,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus. The country has since eased up lockdown restrictions after reporting declining cases and deaths. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/05/10/world/europe/10reuters-health-coronavirus-spain.html">The New York Times reported</a> that about 51% of Spain's population will head to Phase 1 of a four-step easing plan on Monday. Each region within Spain will take a different pace towards the "new normal," and it will be gradual depending on the severity of the outbreak in specific areas, <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/spains-sanchez-announces-six-week-plan-to-gradually-de-escalate-the-countrys-pandemic-lockdown-2020-04-28">Sanchez said. </a>The Spanish government will determine the reopening regions, and the eased up restrictions will allow gatherings of up to 10 people and movement within provinces, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-idUSKBN22M09H">according to Reuters.</a> Additionally, the Canary and Balearic Islands and other areas that make the cut can also reopen bars, restaurants, museums, gyms, and hotels at reduced capacity. Madrid and Barcelona, Spain's two biggest cities, will remain in Phase 0 of the country's reopening plan. David Starton, a Scottish native who's lived in Madrid for 20 years, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/05/10/world/europe/10reuters-health-coronavirus-spain.html">told The New York Times</a> that keeping Madrid at "Phase 0" is the right decision. "I don't think Madrid is ready yet to move onto the next phase," he said. "It's unfortunate, it's quite sad, and we'll just have to put up with another week of restrictions and lockdown."On May 4, the Spanish government permitted public transportation under strict social distancing rules, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-italy-france-spain-ease-lockdowns-after-low-coronavirus-deaths-cases-2020-5">Business Insider previously reported</a>. All residents have to wear a face mask. Residents can now pick up food from restaurants if there's a plexiglass barrier, and "high-performance" athletes can train outdoors. Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spain-reports-lowest-daily-coronavirus-death-toll-since-mid-march-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

More than 50% of Spain's population will enter the first phase of the country's reopening plan after seeing the lowest daily coronavirus death toll since March

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="598665" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="San-Francisco-Bay-Area">San Francisco Bay Area</keyword> seems to have flattened the curve and avoided a surge in <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases that would have overwhelmed hospitals.</li><li>Doctors at three Bay Area hospitals described an "eerie" quiet that they say could still be interrupted at any moment by an uncontrolled outbreak.</li><li>Here's how the Bay Area avoided the wave of patients that its hospitals feared.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>As New York hospitals started running out of ventilators and nurses donned garbage bags for personal protection, emergency rooms in <keyword id="12161" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="San-Francisco">San Francisco</keyword> girded themselves for a similar fate.They pitched triage tents in parking lots, canceled elective surgeries and other nonessential procedures, expanded intensive-care capacity, and planned to convert non-clinical spaces into treatment centers.But then came an unexpected lull."We expected right now to be some version of what was happening in New York, and instead what we've been left with is a <keyword id="6358650" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hospital">hospital</keyword> that's about half empty," Dr. Jahan Fahimi, medical director of the ER at the University of California San Francisco, told Business Insider.The Bay Area was the first place in the US to impose a lockdown, closing nonessential businesses and instructing residents to stay home starting March 16. At the time, San Francisco had <a href="https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/COVID19-DailyMediaAdvisory-03162020.pdf">confirmed</a> 40 coronavirus cases and neighboring Santa Clara County — where officials identified <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-san-francisco-bay-area-santa-clara-county-2020-1">the first COVID-19 case in the Bay Area</a> in January — had more than 130. California followed suit with a statewide shelter-in-place order, the US's first, three days later."We were paralleling other places like Italy," Dr. Ian Brown, a physician and assistant director at the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine, told Business Insider. (Stanford is in Santa Clara County.) "Our concern was of course being overwhelmed, running out of places in the hospital, running out of ventilators."He added, "my greatest fear when this all started was just how simply quick it was moving."But five weeks later, the Bay Area's epidemic curve <a href="https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/San-Francisco-COVID-19-Data-Tracker/fjki-2fab/">appears to have flattened</a>. San Francisco has reported just 1,340 coronavirus cases (though the actual number is probably higher due to early limits in testing capacity). Emergency rooms have plenty of beds and ventilators. Doctors are taking time off, or flying to New York to help there.The flood of cases they feared never came."When you're walking through the halls of the hospital, it feels a little bit eerie at times," Dr. Sam Shen, a physician in Stanford's emergency department, told Business Insider.Many experts have credited the Bay Area's success so far to its early shutdown. But Bay Area doctors say this could still be the calm before a drawn-out storm. So they're using the breathing room to turn their gaze to the year ahead and plan for the surges of infection it could still bring. On Monday, the six counties that went into lockdown first announced the policies will extend <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-shelter-in-place-order-very-likely-extended-2020-4">through at least the end of May</a>.<h2>A 'reprieve' from normal hospital crowding</h2><div type="image" title="san francisco coronavirus sanitize covid-19" height="1400" width="1867" msid="75431111" hostid="261"></div><keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> <a href="https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/qtdt-yqr2">hospitalizations</a> in San Francisco started to climb in early April, but the number of confirmed or suspected coronavirus patients in hospital beds topped out at 121. Since April 17, that number has hovered between 97 and 112.One of UCSF's two triage tents was still sitting unused in its parking lot as of April 17. Stanford had not tapped into its backup store of supplies. Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital has even seen a small drop in COVID-19 patients, with 20 or so in the hospital at any given time."My fellow citizens have been so wonderful in staying in isolation when they should, staying social distancing, quarantining when needed, that it really has a palpable difference on our business," Brown said. "It's made our jobs much more tolerable. It makes it easier for us to care for people. And I hope that in turn — we don't have the numbers yet — I hope that in turn this translates into better outcomes."<div type="image" title="san francisco coronavirus testing zuckerberg sf general hospital" height="1400" width="1867" msid="75431115" hostid="261"></div>Fahimi said that social-distancing rules worked so well that UCSF had to make a new plan for its staff."We had built out a scheduling platform whereby we'd have more physicians available to work, and instead we have given more physicians time off than we had anticipated," Fahimi said.The ER is unusually empty, he added, so they sent <a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/04/417151/ucsf-health-care-workers-serve-new-york-city">12 physicians and eight nurses</a> to New York City."While it's very nice from one standpoint, whereby we get a little bit of a reprieve from the chaos and the crowding that we were exposed to pre-COVID, now unfortunately we have this constant sense of anxiety, because as emergency care providers — both nurses and doctors — we don't do well sitting around," Fahimi said. "We want to be doing something. We want action."The quiet has also raised another question: Where did everybody go?"Where are all the stroke patients? Where are all the heart attack patients?" Fahimi wondered. "There's a little bit of a worry that many of these patients are still having the events that they were having beforehand, but now they're alone."<h2>Reusing face masks has become 'commonplace'</h2><div type="image" title="nurse coronavirus protective equipment hospital" height="4168" width="5558" msid="75431120" hostid="261"></div>The Bay Area doctors noted, however, that hospitals have changed protocol to make the most of face-mask supplies. At SF General, nurses and doctors no longer change their masks when they move from room to room. UCSF workers are reusing them as well."Two months ago, that would have been sort of blasphemy from an infection-prevention standpoint," Fahimi said. "But now it's just commonplace."The new system, he added, is that doctors wear one mask "for the duration of your shift — which is incredibly uncomfortable, by the way.""Then at the end of your shift, you carefully take that N95 off and you store it, without crushing it or getting it disformed, inside of a paper bag," Fahimi said. After four days in the bag, any amount of virus on the mask should be "negligible," he noted. Then he can reuse it for another shift.<h2>A runaway outbreak in a nursing home, jail, or shelter could still tip the scales</h2><div type="image" title="Life care center" height="2051" width="2735" msid="75431125" hostid="261"></div>The doctors are still hesitant to declare victory over San Francisco's first wave of infections. Any new spike in cases could send the Bay Area careening above its recent peak, especially once the government begins to lift social-distancing rules."We won't know where the peak is until we've passed it," Fahimi said, adding, "because we've been so good about preventing the spread of the virus, we have effectively no herd immunity."Herd immunity is the protection a population gains when enough members become infected and develop antibodies. After a critical mass of people are immune, that makes it difficult for the virus to spread, thereby conferring protection to the entire group. The US overall is likely <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-covid-19-herd-immunity-2020-4">nowhere near the minimum 50% of population immunity</a> it would need to gain that protection against the coronavirus, though: Only an estimated 2% to 3% of Americans have been infected."At any point, an outbreak within a nursing home, within a homeless shelter, within a jail — all of which have kind of already happened — could reignite the fire," Fahimi said. "So we're optimistic that the number of cases that we're seeing is not spiking, but worried that it always could."Even a sudden return of the normal emergency patients — the heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents — could shock the hospital with a surge."Even though our volume is lower, it does give us time to prepare for the potential surge should that happen," Shen said. "We sure are kind of maintaining an ever-ready state."<h2>A 'long, slow battle'</h2><div type="image" title="coronavirus test testing drive-thru temperature bike" height="1280" width="1707" msid="75431128" hostid="261"></div>Gov. Gavin Newsom has not set a date to end California's statewide lockdown, but he has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/california-gov-gavin-newsom-second-coronavirus-wave-social-distancing-2020-4">laid out a plan</a> for that eventuality."We know we're going to get a second spike of patients as we start to reopen businesses, schools, all those kinds of things," Fahimi said. "The question is: Is it going to be a wildfire, or is it going to be much more of a controlled burn?"Dr. Lisa Winston, an epidemiologist at SF General, said she is still in and out of meetings for 12 hours per day, helping draft plans to prepare for the next year of coronavirus infections."There's, I think, hope that maybe the curve is being flattened, and then hopefully the surge won't be as bad as was originally predicted," Winston said. "There's also the realization that we are going to be living with this for a very long time."Winston is working to secure a supply chain for the hospital, as well as implement more robust testing and contact-tracing efforts. Experts emphasize that once lockdowns lift, governments will need to closely monitor the spread of the virus via diagnostic tests, then find and isolate people who came into contact with those who test positive."I really hope before we relax things, that we have all the things in place that we need to detect any surges if they're happening and to respond very, very quickly," Winston said. "Our hospitals in San Francisco and the Bay Area are not at their maximum capacity, but if there was unmitigated spread, I think there is the possibility of being overwhelmed."Many epidemiologists also expect that local leaders may need to impose follow-up lockdowns once the virus starts to spread again. "It's going to be a slow, long battle until we as a country are better at both isolation and better at contact tracing," Brown said. "It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. So we're ready."Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-san-francisco-bay-area-hospitals-flattened-curve-eerie-quiet-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

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