Risk Assessment Report – 07 September 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 07 September 2020
Rapid Risk Assessment
September 07, 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 07 September 2020
Time Period Covered September 07, 2020 - September 07, 2020
- Worldwide, there have been over 27.2 million cases and more than 886,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19. India overtook Brazil on Monday to become the second-worst affected country in terms of COVID-19 cases, next to United States. The nation has recorded 4.20 million infections since the pandemic began, health ministry data showed, compared with 4.12 million in Brazil and 6.25 million in the US. Since August the country of 1.3 billion people, home to some of the world's most densely populated cities, has been reporting the highest single-day rises in the world. On Monday it reported an increase of more than 90,000 cases. Its caseload moved past four million on Saturday, only 13 days after hitting three million. Over the past two weeks, the average has moved from about 65,000 cases per day to about 83,000 cases per day, that is about a 27% increase over two weeks or about 2% per day. The Indian Council of Medical Research, the scientific agency leading the government's response, on Friday revised the testing criteria, allowing anyone to undergo a test without a doctor's letter. This will uncover more asymptomatic people in India.
- China National Biotec Group (CNBG) and Sinovac Biotech Ltd said on Saturday (September 5) four more countries have agreed to run late-stage human tests of their coronavirus vaccine candidates, as China steps up its efforts in the global race. Serbia and Pakistan are among the new countries agreeing to Phase 3 trials, as Chinese companies seek more data overseas for final approvals of potential vaccines. China has allowed two vaccine candidates from CNBG and one from Sinovac to be used in limited groups of people facing high infection risk, such as medical workers. Sinovac's vaccine candidate CoronaVac, being trialed in Brazil and Indonesia, has obtained approvals from two other countries for Phase 3 tests.
- In Singapore, new COVID-19 clusters were identified on Sunday (Sep 6) at three migrant worker dormitories that were previously cleared of the coronavirus, with a community case being linked to one of the clusters. The Ministry of Health (MOH) reported on Sunday that new clusters have emerged at Cassia Penjuru, CDPL Tuas Dormitory and Kranji Lodge. All these three dormitories had been gazetted as isolation areas in April under the Infectious Diseases Act before they were declared cleared of COVID-19 last month.
Risk Assessment Report – 07 September 2020