ICS COVID-19 UPDATE AS AT 13 SEPTEMBER 2020
Circular Ref: A(20)168
Issue Date: 18 Sep 2020
Members are invited to note the information provided by the WHO for 13 September 2020 (attached at the Annex 0), received via the ICS Secretariat.
216 countries have now reported 28,637,952 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (6.55%), an 1,874,735 additional cases were confirmed since a week ago, which is an increase compared to the previous week.
If you work out against a 7-day week, this would mean an average of 274088 cases per day, or, 1,918,616 cases for a 7-day week a rise in cases compared to last week. There has also been an almost doubling in the number of fatalities over the last week.
However, many countries still cannot report all cases due to insufficient testing equipment so numbers will be considerably higher.
8 Countries are also now declaring themselves COVID-19 free, compared to 11 last week.
Members are also invited to noted:
- Information provided by Intermanager regarding crew changes in Angola (attached at Annexes 1 thru 4)
Members are also invited to noted:
- Information provided by Intermanager regarding crew changes in Angola (attached at Annexes 1 thru 4)
- Information provided by IMO in Circular - Coronavirus (COVID 19) – Communication from the Secretary-General regarding the crew change crisis (attached at Annex 5) Circular Letter No.4204/Add.29 - Coronavirus (COVID 19) – Communication from the Secretary-General regarding the crew change crisis (10 September 2020)