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Coronavirus: Significant spike, 13 new cases

Thirteen new cases of coronavirus were detected on Wednesday, the health ministry said, from contacts of people already tested positive and people who arrived from abroad.

The 13 cases were detected among 1,725 tests.

The total is now 1,080





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Moira And Dave

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Worrying!

The original news story has been updated.

Thirteen new cases of coronavirus were detected on Wednesday, the health ministry said, most of them from contacts of people already tested positive and people who arrived from abroad.

In total, seven of Wednesday’s new cases are from Limassol where a growing cluster of cases have been detected.

The 13 cases were detected among 1,725 tests.

Seven of the new cases are contacts of people who already tested positive to the virus: four of them are contacts of the couple that had arrived from the Netherlands some two weeks ago and tested positive last Sunday. All of them are Cypriots and were asymptomatic.

Two people are contacts of a person who tested positive on Monday that was a contact of another infected person.

The last case among contacts is the husband of a woman from the Philippines. Both had arrived from their country some two weeks ago. The woman tested positive on Monday. The couple lives in Limassol.

The eighth case is a woman being treated at the Nicosia general hospital. She tested because she is being admitted in hospital very often due to a treatment she is undergoing.

One person from Larnaca got tested in the private sector after presenting symptoms.

Another person from Limassol, with no travel history and who said is not a contact of an infected person, also got tested in the private sector after presenting symptoms.

Two people, also from Limassol, who arrived from the UK on July 20, were found positive to the virus after getting tested because they wanted to cross to the north.

The last case is a person who returned from Santorini and lives in Limassol. They had no symptoms but got tested because they wanted to make sure whether they had the virus or not.

The total is now 1,080.

All helps to boost herd immunity.

There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 are protected from a second infection. Continue to follow preventive measures. Learn more.

Hopefully recent events in Limassol will make people aware that they have to continue taking preventive measures. Good to see such a rapid response by Cyprus authorities. Just hope everyone acts responsibly while they are having an enjoyable time whether they be residents or tourists.

For herd immunity to work, about 60 per cent of the population would need to become infected.

Interesting details https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/coronavirus-can-herd-immunity-protect-us-from-covid-19/

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Moira And Dave

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Yes! Chilling thought we are only at the beginning of the global pandemic
A very long way off herd immunity

It would take a considerable time for herd immunity to be effective and the pandemic would not necessarily come to a complete halt due to a number of reasons that will affect the disease’s future infectiousness.

Some interesting points in this article:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/coron ... -covid-19/

Not concerned about one spike, but if the number of reported positive case does increase over a short period of time in any country then many people need to review their lifestyle choices.

https://m.facebook.com/HighWireTalk/vid ... om%2F&_rdr

Here's a very interesting video worth watching. Make of it what you will.

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/07/2 ... -covid-19/

This article seems to back up a lot of what was said in the video posted 2 days ago.