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10 min readDec 16, 2020

China will suspend inbound international flights if five people onboard test positive for coronavirus

From CNN’s Eric Cheung in Hong Kong

China will suspend inbound international flight routes if five or more people test positive for Covid-19 when they land, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement on Wednesday.

Under the new rules, if five or more passengers test positive for Covid-19 after arriving in China on a flight, the airline company will be banned from running those flights for two weeks, it said.

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A four-week suspension will be served if 10 or more passengers test positive for the virus, it said. Airlines will be allowed to resume flying one flight per week on the route once the suspension ends.

Previously, airlines had to serve a one-week suspension if five or more passengers on a flight tested positive for Covid-19. The tightened restrictions are implemented with immediate effect.

On Tuesday, the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued one-week suspension notices to Ethiopian Airlines, the Russian airline Pegas Fly, and Swiss International Air Lines after five or more passengers who traveled on their flights tested positive for Covid-19.

US has surplus of monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid-19, Azar says

From CNN’s Shelby Lin Erdman

Not enough Covid-19 patients are asking for or receiving monoclonal antibody treatment, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Tuesday.

“We have a surplus of these monoclonal antibodies right now, the Regeneron and Lilly antibodies, and what’s happening is people are waiting too long to seek out the treatments until they show up at the hospital and, by then, it may be too late in order to get the benefit of these antibody treatments that beat back the spread of the virus,” Azar told CNBC in an interview.

What is the treatment? “Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-made proteins that mimic the immune system’s ability to fight off harmful antigens such as viruses,” the FDA said in a statement after approving the Eli Lilly treatment. It’s “designed to block the virus’ attachment and entry into human cells.”

The treatment involves an infusion, and Azar acknowledged there’s a natural resistance to get that kind of treatment if a person still feels healthy.

But doctors need to prescribe and use these products early in the disease progression, as it can “dramatically reduce the risk for us of hospitalizations at a time when our hospitals are getting very crowded with people with Covid,” he said.

“So basically if you are over 65 or at risk of serious complications or hospitalizations because of comorbidities, what have you, and you test positive, you need to seek out and get the Lilly or the Regeneron monoclonal antibody,” Azar said.

This 107-year-old woman beat Covid-19

From CNN’s Kay Jones and Amanda Jackson

Tillie Dybing is a survivor.

At the age of 107, the Minnesota woman recently beat Covid-19 after being diagnosed this fall, according to officials at the Ecumen Detroit Lakes community home, where she has lived since 2015.

This isn’t the first pandemic Dybing has lived through. Born in 1913, she was almost 5 years old when the 1918 flu pandemic hit her family farm in North Dakota, she told CNN affiliate KARE.

“My folks got sick and they were in bed, and I’d run into the bed and my Dad said, ‘Can’t you find another place to run,’” she said.

Throughout her life, Dybing endured other losses, including the deaths of several siblings in infancy and her husband in her 80s. She is also a cancer survivor, having beaten uterine cancer at the age of 95, KARE reported.

Now, she has survived two viral pandemics. The only Covid-19 symptoms Dybing says she had was fatigue.

“Nothing in her lungs. They said she doesn’t have a fever. She just slept all the time,” Dybing’s daughter Susan Berke told KARE.

Dybing recently returned to her apartment at the facility after spending a few weeks away from the general population, Ecumen officials said. They added that they are happy she has recovered and thanked her family for trusting them with her care.

8 hr 33 min ago

Coronavirus is adding to delays for the US Postal Service this holiday season

From CNN’s Artemis Moshtaghian

The United States Postal Service is warning customers that they are experiencing unprecedented volume increases and limited employee availability due to the impact of Covid-19.

“We appreciate your patience and remain committed to delivering the holidays to you,” an update on their website says.

“While every year the Postal Service carefully plans for peak holiday season, a historic record of holiday volume compounded by a temporary employee shortage due to the Covid-19 surge, and capacity challenges with airlifts and trucking for moving this historic volume of mail are leading to temporary delays,” said the USPS, adding that similar challenges are being felt by “shippers across the board.”

US reports more than 198,000 new Covid cases

From CNN’s Artemis Moshtaghian

The United States reported 198,357 new coronavirus cases and 3,019 virus-related deaths on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Tuesday’s death toll marks the third highest daily count of fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic.

The nationwide totals now stand at 16,717,014 confirmed cases and 303,797 deaths.

The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases.

CNN is tracking Covid figures:

HHS Secretary says we’ll soon know how many Americans have been vaccinated so far

From CNN’s Shelby Lin Erdman

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said he doesn’t know how many Americans have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, but that those figures should arrive in the coming days.

“I can’t tell you at this precise moment how many have gotten it,” Azar told CNBC’s Shepard Smith on Tuesday. “We’re just, of course, two days into the vaccination program but we do have the IT systems to generate that data and get that reporting.”

“And as we go, several days or maybe a week into this, we’ll start providing a dashboard with that type of information, so we know exactly how we’re doing on getting shots in arms,” he added.

“It’s important information. We have it. We literally track each box, GPS temperature control every truck. We’ve got a command center here with it, so we’ll be able to start doing that type of reporting.”

The vaccine program: Vaccinations began on Monday, with the first doses delivered to all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

The first doses of the Pfizer vaccine were injected Monday into health care workers — those at the front lines of the pandemic.

But it will be several months before most Americans can get a Covid-19 vaccine.

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