COVID-19 Update-April 18

Dear Colleagues,

Please note that I have added other countries in the region that may be of interest to our members.

Here is the current situation in the Caribbean:

Country	Total Cases	Infected	Deaths	Recovered	Date of 1st reported case
World	2,276,547	1,537,807	156,141	582,599	8th December
Jamaica	163	133	5	25	10th March
Bahamas	53	39	8	6	15th March
Trinidad & Tobago	114	86	8	20	12th March
Barbados	75	55	5	15	17th March
Suriname	10	3	1	6	13th March
Curacao	14	3	1	10	13th March
Belize	18	16	2	0	22nd March
Guyana	63	48	6	9	18th March
Haiti	44	41	3	0	19th March
Bermuda	83	43	5	35	18th March
Cayman Islands	61	53	1	7	12th March

Comments

Jamaica is the only country to have had new cases; an increase of 20 cases again related primarily to the single call centre.

Here are some links that are very interesting:

• The UK Financial Times – Virologist behind ‘Contagion’ film criticizes leaders’ slow responses
• Latin America, Caribbean yet to hit coronavirus surge; most are tightening measures
• Interviews with the Leading COVID-19 Expert from South Korea – ASIAN BOSS

Monitoring mortality in England & Wales

The Mortality Projections Committee released its first weekly monitoring report, for week 14 (ending on 3 April 2020), on 14 April. The results are striking:

• Mortality in week 14 of 2020 was nearly 60% higher than if mortality rates were the same as week 14 of 2019.
• The increase in deaths was considerably higher than the number of deaths that note COVID-19 on the death certificate.
• There may have been over 25,000 more deaths by 13 April 2020 than if mortality rates were the same as in 2019; with almost all of the difference in the past month.”

I remind members that both the SOA and the IFOA have a lot of current information that is both helpful and interesting. These and others are linked on our website’s Resources page.

Feedback welcome.

Thank you.

Shubhash Gosine

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