Mercator Medical share price closed all time high 602 (+7.89%) as Covid-19 cases in Europe and US keeps increasing towards next month deadly winter season.

JAKARTA: A total of 19 members of the Indonesian Parliament have been confirmed Covid-19 positive, with the republic recording 3,492 new positive cases within the last 24 hours.

According to the Secretary General of the House of Representatives (DPR) of the Republic of Indonesia, Indra Iskandar, a total of 42 staff of the house have also been infected with the virus.

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CHINA reported a new cluster of coronavirus infections in the eastern port city of Qingdao, snapping a streak of over two months without local transmission, underscoring the risk of resurgence in countries that have achieved near-eradication of the pathogen.

The city in Shandong province said on Sunday that it found three asymptomatic cases linked to a hospital which treats Covid-19 patients coming from abroad.

Expanded testing of hospital patients and staff then found another nine infections – of the total of 12 in the cluster so far, six are asymptomatic.

More testing is underway and aims to cover the entire city of 9.5 million within five days, the local health commission said on Monday.

Expected to break RM10 resistance next week.. Worsening Covid-19 pandemic in US and Europe with increasing daily new infections,hospitalizations and deaths.

The first round of Covid-19 vaccines from COVAX for Malaysia will only cover three per cent of the population, which the government intends to give to frontliners and the most vulnerable, said Khairy Jamaluddin.People aged above 60 years or who have underlying medical conditions, like diabetes, lung or heart disease, or conditions that affect their immune system, are more likely to develop severe disease from Covid-19. About 18 per cent of Malaysian adults have diabetes.

Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 12,846 on Saturday, a new daily record since the start of the outbreak early this year.
The latest figures pushed the overall total number of infections in the country to 1,285,084. The previous record of 12,126 new cases was registered on Friday.
Russia’s coronavirus crisis centre said 197 more deaths were confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 22,454.

Explosion of Covid-19 cases in all 40+ European countries since end September and US daily cases start to increase back to 55,000-60,000 last few days.Coming winter season within 4-6 weeks will be terrible.

New coronavirus measures cannot be avoided in the Netherlands if there is no improvement in the number of new infections in the coming 24 to 72 hours, prime minister Mark Rutte told reporters after the weekly cabinet conference. The number of new coronavirus infections in the Netherlands continues to rise, with a further 5,983 cases registered with public health institute RIVM in the 24 hours to Friday morning.
By Friday a further 69 people had been admitted to hospital, taking the total to 1,139, of whom 239 are in intensive care. Hospitals are working hard to make sure everyone can be treated, but non-essential operations are being delayed, Rutte said. ‘And there is a risk that heart and cancer operations may have to be postponed as well,’ he said.

Italy was grappling Friday with fears of a second coronavirus wave similar to the ones seen in Britain, France and Spain, as it registered over 5,000 new infections in 24 hours.
"We're under extreme pressure," the World Health Organization's Italian government adviser Walter Ricciardi said, warning that spaces in COVID-19 hospitals were running out in the worst-hit regions. Italy registered 5,372 new cases Friday, the health ministry said, nearly 1,000 more than on Thursday. The country has not seen such high numbers of recorded new infections since mid-April. But Ricciardi said the rise in cases could reach those levels in Italy just as winter begins and common influenza strikes."When the flu comes, we risk having 16 thousand cases in a day," he said in an interview with broadcaster Sky TG24

The UK has announced another 13,864 coronavirus cases and a further 87 deaths in the latest daily update.In the latest week, cases positivity was 6.7%. WHO recommends a rate below 5% is needed to keep an epidemic under control. There are 3,660 COVID-19 patients in hospital, according to the government dashboard, 436 of whom are receiving ventilation treatment.The daily number of admissions is 597.

Continuing trends seen over the past week, Spain on Friday registered nearly 12,800 new coronavirus infections and 241 more lives lost to COVID-19.
The level of new infections remains high but steady. In the last month alone, the country has reported nearly 318,000 new cases, bringing the total to above 860,000. Deaths, on the other hand, are showing a steady rise. Over the last week, almost 1,000 people have been confirmed to have died from COVID-19 in Spain.

The number of new coronavirus infections in France jumped more than 20,000 in one day for the first time since the start of the pandemic, health ministry data showed on Friday. The ministry reported 20,330 new infections, taking the cumulative total to 691,977 since the start of the year. In the past two days the ministry had reported more than 18,000 daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases.
The number of deaths from the virus increased by 109 to 32,630, the most in a week. The number of people in hospital jumped by another 240 to 7,864 nationwide and the number of people in intensive care units - the best measure of a health system's ability to deal with the epidemic -rose by 21 to 1,448.

Worldwide Covid-19 daily cases hits all time high 350,000+ as this pandemic transmission becomes super critical as we near deadly winter season starting end November.

Mercator share price closed all time high 558 (4.10%) as European countries daily cases 100,000+ for 2nd consecutive days.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah CM Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor has tested positive for Covid-19, Bernama reports.

He is currently under treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, according to his public relations secretary Effendi Mohamed Sunoh.

Another record high Covid-19 daily new cases in Europe today and broke past 100,000 cases today.It will be a harsh and deadly coming winter season end November for European countries.

Poland reported a new record of 4,280 daily coronavirus cases on Thursday as well as a new daily record of 76 deaths related to the coronavirus, according to the health ministry's Twitter account.

Earlier on Thursday Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska confirmed to public radio that the Polish capital Warsaw would be added to a list of areas with additional restrictions due to high numbers of coronavirus cases.

In total, the country of 38 million has reported 111,599 cases of the coronavirus and 2,867 deaths.

Ukraine registered a record 5,397 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the national security council said on Thursday, up from a previous record of 4,753 new cases reported on Wednesday.

The council said a total of 244,734 cases had been registered in Ukraine as of Oct. 8, with 4,690 deaths, including 93 in the past 24 hours.

The daily tally of coronavirus infections spiked in late September and early October above 4,000, prompting the government to extend lockdown measures until the end of October.

Ukraine's Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said on Monday the daily number of new coronavirus cases in Ukraine could exceed 5,000 later this week.

Over 1,000 patients are currently admitted to hospital because of the new coronavirus (Covid-19) in Belgium, according to Sciensano’s latest figures on Thursday.

In total, 1,050 coronavirus patients are currently in hospital, which is 98 more than yesterday. Of those patients, 201 are in intensive care, 12 more than yesterday. Patients on a ventilator number 94, nine more than yesterday.

Additionally, 90.7 new hospitalisations per day were recorded on average between 29 September and 5 October, up from 79.7 per day the week before.

Additionally, over the 7-day period from 29 September to 5 October, an average of 2,595.4 new people tested positive, which is an increase of 64%, meaning the number of new infections is rising rapidly again.

The Netherlands registered 5,831 new cases of people becoming infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on Thursday, early data from the RIVM showed. The health institute's data far surpassed the previous record of 4,996 set just a day earlier, with Thursday's tally over 53 percent higher than a week ago.

Since Monday roughly 19,956 tested positive for the virus, surpassing the total for the entire month of August by 2,500. This week, new infections have risen by 60 percent more than at this point last week.

The three cities with the most infections on Thursday were Amsterdam (445), Rotterdam (424) and The Hague (317). They showed increases over last Thursday of 29, 53 and 40 percent, respectively.

Dutch hospitals were treating 1,070 people for Covid-19 on Thursday, an increase of 49. The current admission level was 55 percent higher than one week earlier, and showed the most being treated for the coronavirus disease at any given time since May 22.

The day's hospital total included 228 patients in intensive care, an increase of 18, and 842 outside of intensive care, 31 more than on Wednesday, according to patient coordination office LCPS. New hospital admissions have increased at an average of 6.5 percent for each of the past seven days, a trend which, unabated, could give the Netherlands a coronavirus patient total of 1,660 by next Thursday.

Spain's Ministry of Health has added 12,423 new cases of coronavirus in this Thursday’s update, of which 5,585 positives have been registered in the last 24 hours.The health authorities also register 126 deaths with COVID-19 new deaths, 421 notified in the last week.

With an average of 100 deaths per day in the last fortnight, this month of September has been the month with the highest mortality in the entire democracy, with 3,000 deaths above the average according to the records of the Daily Mortality Surveillance System (MoMo) of the Carlos III Health Institute.

Madrid continues to be the autonomous community with the highest number of new infections, with 3,152 new cases, 2,265 of them in the last 24 hours. They are followed by Andalusia (2,556 new positives), which reports a thousand more infections than on Wednesday; Catalunya (1,716); Castilla-La Mancha (829); Euskadi (820); Castilla y León (776) and Comunitat Valenciana (706).

France’s new daily COVID-19 infections remained above the record 18,000 threshold for the second day on Thursday, while the number of people treated in hospital for the disease was up.

Hospitals in the Paris region moved into emergency mode on Thursday, cancelling staff holidays and postponing non-essential operations, as coronavirus patients made up close to half of all patients in intensive care units (ICUs).

The number of people in hospital for COVID-19 stood at a three-month high of 7,624 on a national level, an increase of 88 over 24 hours.There were 11 more patients in ICUs for the disease, at 1,427, a tally almost four times higher than a July 31 low of 371.

The number of people in France who have died from COVID-19 rose by 76, a figure higher than the seven-day moving average of 73, and now stands at 32,521.

Britain today recorded 17,540 more cases of coronavirus, with the number of people testing positive for the disease every day having nearly tripled in a fortnight.Health chiefs recorded 14,162 coronavirus cases yesterday, which was more than double the figure of 6,178 recorded a fortnight before. Separate data released today showed 51,475 new people tested positive for Covid-19 in England in the week to September 30 - up 56 per cent in a week.

Another 77 coronavirus deaths were also announced today, the highest daily figure since early July. It marks a 30 per cent rise on last week's 59 fatalities and 92 per cent higher than the number of victims posted the Thursday before, when there were 40 deaths. Data shows the rolling seven-day average number of daily deaths is 56, up from a record-low of seven in mid-August.

In another grim milestone, hospital admissions in England have now passed 500 a day for the first time since June. On Tuesday, the last day for which figures are published on the dashboard, 524 Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in England - up from 472 the previous day. The last time admissions breached this level in England was June 2. For the UK as a whole, there were 602 admissions on Tuesday.

Believe it or not...European countries daily new Covid-19 cases will reach 100,000 cases tomorrow as today daily new cases already reach 90,000+

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Argentina has the world’s highest rate of positive COVID-19 tests, according to Oxford-linked tracker Our World In Data, with nearly six out of 10 yielding an infection, a reflection of low testing levels and loose enforcement of lockdown rules.

Argentina hit 809,728 confirmed cases on Monday, with a seven-day rolling average of around 12,500 new daily infections. The country, which started strongly against the virus, passed 20,000 fatalities last week.

Medical professionals said low-levels of testing and lax restrictions had propelled the high positive rate, that climbed from around 40% in August to just shy of 60% in the last week, a Reuters calculation using health ministry data shows.

“Is there isolation? There is none. Are there (enough) tests? No there aren’t,” Carlos Kambourian, a pediatrician in the city of Buenos Aires, told Reuters.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - New coronavirus infections in the Netherlands reached a record high of nearly 5,000 in 24 hours, data released by health authorities on Wednesday showed.

Officials have warned that tougher restrictions will be needed if infection and hospital admission rates continue to rise at such a rapid pace.

After several days of falls, the number of new coronavirus cases reported by the central Health Ministry in its daily report on the epidemic shot up on Tuesday. Of the 11,988 new infections diagnosed, 5,187 of them (43%) correspond to Madrid. In Monday’s report, this percentage was 28% and on Friday it was 22%. The new cases in the region represent the highest figure so far in this second wave of the health crisis.

That was not the only record figure to be seen in Tuesday’s data. The number of Covid-19-related fatalities to be added to the total came in at 261, which is the highest figure since the first wave of the virus was brought under control between March and May thanks to Spain’s national lockdown, one of the strictest in the world. Of these, 120 were from the Madrid region, also a new high in this second wave.

The 14-day cumulative number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants – the principal indicator used to compare the epidemiological situation between regions, and the main parameter established by the central government and regional administrations for the implementation of restrictions – has risen sharply in Madrid. According to Tuesday’s report, it went from 587 to 710 in a single day, way above the national average of 273. As such, the region has returned to levels similar to those seen in the last two weeks.

The Health Ministry also reported 883 new coronavirus patients in Spain’s hospitals, with 71 requiring intensive care unit (ICU) treatment.Madrid continues to be the region with the highest ICU bed occupation, at 40.5%.

MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. The recent days’ coronavirus spread in Russia makes us believe that the number of new cases will outstrip the spring indicators, Professor of the Gamaleya Research Institute Anatoly Alshtein said on the Moscow 24 television channel on Wednesday.

"Today’s numbers show that there is a certain chance that the epidemic might subside. However, one day does not solve anything. Therefore, we are now in a position when we should just watch the epidemic. It is impossible yet to say precisely when it will reach the peak. Judging by how the epidemic has evolved over the past week or in the past ten days, it could have been expected that it will outstrip the spring [wave]."

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According to data released by the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center on Wednesday, a daily rise in coronavirus cases in Russia was 11,115 in the past 24 hours, having decreased for the first time since September 13.

Italy has recorded at least 3,678 new coronavirus cases – the largest daily increase in more than five months.

According to data from Italy’s Health Ministry, there have now been at least 333,940 cases since the outbreak began.

The UK’s coronavirus death toll has risen by 70, the government said, bringing the total number of deaths to 42,515.

The government said a further 14,162 lab-confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the UK, bringing the total to 554,275.

Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show there have now been 58,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

Separate figures show there were 2,944 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England as of Wednesday, up from 1,958 a week ago, while 376 Covid-19 hospital patients were in ventilation beds, up from 281 a week ago.

A total of 472 patients with confirmed Covid-19 were admitted to hospitals in England on Monday, compared with 308 a week earlier.

French health authorities reported 18,746 new confirmed COVID-19 cases over 24 hours on Wednesday, a new all-time daily high, and almost double Tuesday's tally of 10,489.

The number of people in France who have died from Covid-19 infections was up by 80, at 32,445, and the cumulative number of cases now totals 653,509.

French President Emmanuel Macron responded to the record cases saying there would be new restrictions put in place to curb the virus's spread.

On Tuesday, the proportion of intensive care unit beds in the Paris region occupied by Covid-19 patients reached 40 percent.

French authorities put Paris and three neighbouring areas on the top Covid-19 alert level on Tuesday – with the city’s iconic bars and cafés shut down for two weeks to try to stem the virus, although restaurants have been allowed to remain open.

More than 7,500 patients were currently being treated in hospital for the coronavirus, marking a three-month high and an increase of more than 65 percent from a low point of 4,530 reached on August 29.

European countries daily new cases hits new all time high again 90,000+ new cases today compares to yesterday 80,000+ new cases.Early September which is 1 month ago daily new cases 40,000+ and winter coming November new cases can increase up to 150,000-200,000 daily new cases.

TEHRAN: Iran announced another 239 fatalities from the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the deadliest single day for the Middle East country hardest hit by the pandemic.

Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said Covid-19 has now claimed 27,658 lives out of 483,844 cases of infection in the country. The Islamic republic's previous record death toll had been reached on Monday, when it reported 235 fatalities due to the virus.

On Tuesday, Iran announced 4,151 coronavirus infections, also a record high for a single day.

COLOMBO: More than 1,000 workers have tested positive for coronavirus at a Sri Lanka factory that until August was producing surgical masks for the US, officials said Wednesday, as they scrambled to find the source of the country's biggest outbreak.

The flurry of cases since the first positive test at the garment factory was reported three days ago pushed the island nation's infections total near 4,500.Officials said 1,026 workers who tested positive at the factory – which employs 1,700 in total – were in hospital.

Mercator share price closed all time high today 534 (+5.35%).European countries keeps hitting new high today after breaking 80,000 daily new cases yesterday compares to early September 40,000 daily new cases.Winter season starting next month November will hit at least 100,000 daily new cases.

LONDON — Major European economies are downgrading already dire economic forecasts on the back of a second wave of coronavirus infections sweeping through the continent, with over 6.3 million cases now reported in the region.

The Bank of Spain warned Tuesday that strict measures to contain the spike in virus cases could push the country into a worse-than-expected economic crisis. The bank warned that in its worst-case scenario, gross domestic product (GDP) could contract 12.6% in 2020. In a less pessimistic forecast, GDP is forecast to contract 10.5%.

Political infighting in Spain has worsened as infections have risen, with capital Madrid particularly badly hit, leading to parts of the city being put in lockdown. Spain has the highest number of cases in Europe with 825,410 reported infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization puts Europe’s total tally of cases at just under 6,338,000.

France, the euro zone’s second largest economy, is also warning that an economic rebound post-lockdown is likely to plateau in the fourth quarter, as a spike in cases stifles business activity. France has the second highest number of infections after Spain, with 675,736 confirmed cases, according to JHU.

Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has announced further restrictions in major cities, including Berlin and Frankfurt, to stem a rise in cases.

In Berlin, restaurants, bars, local shops and other businesses will have to shut between 23:00 p.m. and 06:00 a.m. while in Frankfurt, bars and restaurants will have to close at 10 p.m. Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, said back in June that it expected economic output to shrink by 7% in 2020.

Germany reported 2,639 new cases Tuesday, and a further 2,828 on Wednesday, data from public health body the Robert Koch Institute shows, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to just over 306,000.

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European countries yesterday hits all time high 80,000 new cases... Spain 14,000+,UK 12,000+,Russia 11,000+,France 10,000+

Iran set a fresh record for daily coronavirus cases for the third time this week, reporting 4,151 new infections overnight, the country’s Health Ministry said.

The Islamic Republic, which is battling the Middle East’s worst coronavirus outbreak, reported 227 deaths from the disease since Monday, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sina Sadat Lari said. Some 479,825 cases and 27,419 fatalities have been reported so far.
Lari said all but one of Iran’s 31 provinces have been declared “red zones” and officials in Tehran have warned that the capital and its surrounding province are seeing a major spike in cases and face a serious shortage of hospital beds.

KUALA LUMPUR: The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned governments of countries in the Western Pacific region, which includes Malaysia, to prepare for multiple surges of Covid-19 before a vaccine is ready – estimated to be available by the end of 2021

New highs Covid-19 cases today 691 new cases!!!!!!

Vaccines available in Russia end August daily new cases only 4,000+ but now early October daily new cases sharp increase to 11,000+ almost triple increase within 2 months period.

"In the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 11,615 COVID-19 cases in 83 regions, of which 3,282 (28.3 percent) were detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms," the response center said in a statement, specifying that the total count has reached 1,237,504.
The largest increase was identified in Moscow, where 4,082 new positive tests were registered (up from 3,537 yesterday). A total of 411 new cases were recorded in St. Petersburg (up from 407 yesterday) and 347 cases were confirmed in the Moscow region (up from 339 yesterday). No new cases were recorded in the Nenets Autonomous Region and the Chukotka Autonomous Region.
The response center reported 188 new coronavirus-related fatalities, up from 117 yesterday, raising Russia's total death toll to 21,663.

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Today highest new case in Kedah 390+ new cases compares to yesterday 241 new cases!!!

Today Malaysia Covid-19 new case records all time high again...891 new cases!!!!!Lets wait and see later 5.30p.m press conference by Datuk Seri Dr Noor Hisham

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GENEVA: The WHO estimated Monday that 10 percent of the world has been infected by the new coronavirus – way more than has been recorded – as it mulled speeding up internal reforms.

To date, more than 35 million cases of Covid-19 have been registered worldwide, including some 1.04 million who have died, according to an AFP tally based on official sources.

But the World Health Organization now estimates that around a tenth of the planet's 7.8 billion or so people have already been infected since the virus first surfaced in China late last year – more than 20 times the official count.

"Our current best estimate tells us that about 10 percent of the global population may have been infected by this virus," WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told a special meeting of the agency's executive board.

He stressed that infection levels varied "from urban to rural, it varies between different groups."

"But what it does mean is that the vast majority of the world remains at risk," he warned.