Thanks for sharing! I have been building a collection of useful statistics links for Covid-19. This singaporean one takes the cake for detail - a case by case breakdown and network graph, amazing!
Taiwan also has been rather efficient and transparent in how they handled the situation. And the results speak for themselves for a country with so many economic ties to China...
The PRC didn’t suspend tourist groups. They stopped allowing PRC passport holders to get individual tourist visas to go on holiday in Taiwan. A family I know were in Taiwan as part of a tour group when news of the virus broke.
It was 34C in Singapore today (About 93F). No doubt the government response has been proactive, but you'd think the weather might be a factor in successful containment of the infection?
Another one from Singapore. I agree that the official reaction seems well handled!
(Not that there wasn't a slight panic and crazy hoarding stories and there certainly are flaws in company/building management policies, but .. that's not to blame on the government)
Agreed. A lot of SEA countries been handling it pretty well(with the exception of Indonesia). I'm from Malaysia and even though there's been a huge political storm recently, we still have the highest recovery rate among all fo the countries that are suffering.
Transparency is the key take away. Official government whatsapp notifications helped curb fake news. The information was readily available. Ministers and other senior health officials was on the news, providing accurate information.
The contact tracing and isolation was near perfect. Strict measures were taken for people who disobeyed orders and put people in danger.
Japan for instance has 20 times more people than Singapore, but only 3 times more cases. Epidemic started at the same time in both countries. Not saying that Singapore isn't doing a good job, but are they really doing much better than other countries?
I disagree. If viruses are forever associated with the locations in which they first spread, perhaps authorities might be a little sharper in controlling the spread.
It reminds of syphilis. Back in the day, syphilis was known as the French disease by the Germans, the Italian disease by the French, the Polish disease by the Russians, the Spanish disease by the Dutch, and the Christian disease by the Turks.
Then if you look at the Country breakdown here https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (scroll down a bit) South Korea has 5,186 confirmed cases but only 27 are listed as Serious or Critical. This seems to go against the '20% need hospital treatment' narrative and would support the theory that there are a lot of mild cases going undetected (as SK has tested more widely than any other country).
But ... I can't find a source for that '27' Serious or Critical number.
South Korean here. We're testing literally everyone who has had any sort of contact with the cult that is at the center of the recent explosion of cases. Like, if you've been attending an art class run by members of the cult, you'll get a call.
If you're unrelated to the cult but want to get tested anyway, you can just show up at a drive-thru testing center (yes, that's a thing) and it will take less than 10 minutes. On-demand testing costs around $150, but it's free if you turn out to be infected or have recently been to any place where you might have picked up the virus, such as Daegu.
This system obviously picks up a lot of mild cases.
I haven't seen the 27 "Serious or Critical" figure published anywhere domestically. It might be based on an arbitrary criterion (e.g. "patient is being given oxygen") that is only used for reporting to international organizations. Meanwhile, the government has begun to move mild cases from hospitals to other facilities (where they will be quarantined) in order to make room for more severe cases that they're clearly anticipating. There have been over 30 deaths already, so it's unlikely that there are only 27 severe cases.
Thanks. I'm trying to get a handle on the 'how many people need to be hospitalised' statistic because I don't think we've got any outside-of-China stats on that, and its one of the most worrying dimensions of the outbreak.
Wish they listed the total number of people tested so far though. Since I think that's a statistic that is important to properly interpret the number of cases.
Not so sure. While outside in Singapore is hot and humid, indoor environments where most people spend most of their time are aircon cooled, UV shielded and dry, ideal conditions for the virus
The clusters that did develop expanded rapidly.
I'm gonna go with the excellent government response and tracing on this one
Surprisingly, Singapore has lots of Indians but I don't see Indians in Singapore who got this virus. And no report of India being affected either. What gives?
Note the the ones marked Singaporeans can include people of Indian origin. The data only indicates that Indian citizens in Singapore haven't been confirmed with COVID-19.
Also, the clusters identified have more Chinese origin people.
There are Indian citizens who are affected. Local transmission didn't happen as India made prompt effort to cancel chineese visas and health screening in airports who come from affected countries.
Also, quarantine efforts for rescued citizens from Wuhan was efficiently done.
India has reported 5 cases officially out of which 3 people have fully recovered. There were 2 new cases yesterday. A third case is also suspected from a foreign national.
Here are some nice resources I've come across: Obligatory global john hopkins/arcgis: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Another global map, but with different stats: https://thewuhanvirus.com/
A detailed frequency table with sources: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...
A japan dashboard: https://covid19japan.com/
Nextstrain has a bioinformatics overview here: https://nextstrain.org/ncov