ICS COVID-19 UPDATE AS AT 20 SEPTEMBER 2020
Circular Ref: A(20)176
Issue Date: 28 Sep 2020
Members are invited to note the information provided by WHO for 20 September 2020, received via the ICS Secretariat.
216 countries have now reported 30,675,675 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (6.64%). 2,037,723 additional cases were confirmed since a week ago, which is an increase compared to the previous week. There have also been an increase in the number of fatalities over the last week with 37,000 additional deaths in the last week. However, many countries still cannot report all cases due to insufficient testing equipment so numbers will be considerably higher.
9 Countries are also now declaring themselves COVID-19 free, compared to 8 last week.
Members are also invited to note the following attachments:
- General Information regarding Covid 19 issued in the last few days in report below.
- Information provided on the COVID-19 and Maritime Crew Changes: A humanitarian, safety, and economic crisis webinar to raise awareness for seafarers and the urgent issue of crew changes on World Maritime Day 2020. At Annex 1. Online during the high-level opening week of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly September 2020 14:00-15:15 CET (8:00-9:15 EDT).
- Port State Control advice relating to covid 19 from Paris MoU is available at https://www.parismou.org/system/files/PSCIRC97 – TEMPORARY GUIDANCE RELATED TO COVID-19 REV.4 FINAL_1.pdf
- Liberia Maritime Authority Certificates and Surveys at Annex 2
- Panama Circular Coronavirus and Seafarers employment agreement and Certificates – Annex 3
- Singapore Star fund – Annex 4
- Singapore Airlines Flight Schedules – Annex 5
- Scoot’s Flight Schedules for September 2020 – Annex 6
- IMO Circular on Coronavirus (COVID 19) – Communication from the Secretary-General regarding the crew change crisis at Annex 7