As of May 9, 2020, it has infected approximately 4 million humans, killed more than 0.27 million individuals, and has brought most of the world to a standstill in lockdowns (WorldOMeter 2020 Johns Hopkins University 2020). We will be adding other countries and more details in the coming days.COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions in the world. See also: COVID-19 Testing Numbers by CountryĬhina tested 320,000 people in Guangdong (population of 113 million people) over a three-week period. “I’m a practitioner on the firing line, and I don’t have the tools to properly care for patients today.” ( Video, CNBC) They’re testing 10,000 a day in some countries and we can’t get this off the ground,” McCarthy said. “In New York State, the person who tested positive is only the 32nd test we’ve done in this state,” he said. There’s going to be thousands by next week. There are going to be hundreds by middle of week. We know that there are 88 cases in the United States. “I’m here to tell you, right now, at one of the busiest hospitals in the country, I don’t have at my finger tips.” “I still have to make my case, plead to test people. Matt McCarthy, a staff physician at New York-Presbyterian: For comparison, the UK, with a population five times smaller than the US, had conducted over 7,000 tests.ĭr. 26, CDC had performed a total of 445 tests. California Governor Gavin Newsom characterized the number of test kits available in the state as “remarkably inadequate.”Īs of Feb. The agency can now screen only 350-500 samples per day. are currently able to test for COVID-19 because of a problem with the test developed by CDC. Just 12 of more than 100 public health labs in the U.S. 27 issued new testing rules, for which many more people can now be tested for the coronavirus. The hospital's request to test for COVID-19 was initially denied by CDC, as the patient did not meet the COVID-19 testing criteria (had not recently traveled to countries with outbreaks or been in contact with someone with the virus). The patient, who was on a ventilator with a suspected viral infection, was transferred from another hospital to UC Davis Medical Center on Feb.
26 become the latest confirmed case in the US, and the first with an unknown origin of infection (raising the concern that there are more cases circulating among the general public that have not been identified).
The US CDC initially declined to test the patient who on Feb. Stephen Hahn, FDA Commissioner, announced that the US will have, by the end of the week, the ability to perform 1 million tests. 27 have also started testing more than 210,000 members of the Shincheonji religious group in Daegu. They are installing drive through test facilities, which minimize hospital pressures and keep potential patients out of the system until they need access. South Korea ( population of 51 million) is testing about 10,000 people per day, and is working to increase that to 15,000 to 20,000 per day, as of Feb. 26 that it would relax its testing criteria to the point that contacts linked to confirmed cases or recent travelers to outbreak areas would not be tested anymore, unless they show symptoms. United States: 445 concluded tests, of which 14 positive ( 3.1% positivity rate).South Korea: 66,652 tests with 1766 positives 25,568 awaiting results ( 4.3% positivity rate).
Austria: 321 tests, of which 2 positive, awaiting results: unknown ( at least 0.6% positivity rate).France: 762 tests, of which 17 positive, 179 awaiting results ( at least 2.2% positivity rate).Italy: 9,462 tests, of which 470 positive, awaiting results: unknown ( at least 5.0% positivity rate).UK: 7,132 concluded tests, of which 13 positive ( 0.2% positivity rate).
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