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Rio de Janeiro's carnival parade scheduled for February 2021, has been postponed indefinitely, organizers Tweeted on September 24, 2020. This is the first carnival postponement in about 100 years. This announcement applies to Liesa's formal carnival event but does not apply to Rio's local street parties that take place at the same time, the BBC reported.
During July 2020, São Paulo's carnival parade was delayed until October 2021.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the country of Brazil has confirmed over 141,000 fatalities related to COVID-19.
Despite aggressive efforts by health departments, many COVID-19 patients do not report their close contacts, and many contacts cannot be reached, according to the U.S. CDC announcement on September 25, 2020. As an example, during periods of high COVID-19 incidence in North Carolina, 48% of COVID-19 patients reported no close-contacts, and 25% of contacts were not reached in Mecklenburg County.
The CDC stated 'improved timeliness of contact tracing, community engagement, and community-wide mitigation are needed to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission.'
The U.S. CDC reported on September 25, 2020, dengue is an ongoing health risk in many parts of Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Travelers to areas of risk should protect themselves by preventing mosquito bites. In addition, the countries listed in this Level 1 Travel Alert are reporting higher-than-usual numbers of dengue cases, and travelers visiting these countries may be at increased risk.
And in the USA, various south Florida counties are reporting both travel-related and locally-acquired dengue infections during 2020.
There is an approved dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, which is available in various countries around the world. And, there are several dengue vaccine candidates in clinical studies.
Physicians, like everyone else, are already planning on either eliminating or sharply curtailing travel plans during the 2020 holiday season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, reported the Week #27 survey by Sermo.
Worldwide, 68% of physicians said that their holiday travel plans are ‘significantly impacted’ by the pandemic. While in New York 83% of physicians plan to limit family travels, as of September 24, 2020.
Globally, 93% of physicians expect a 2nd wave of coronavirus cases as the Northern Hemisphere enters the fall and winter months, and people spend more time indoors.
ILiAD Biotechnologies, LLC. announced that it will be presenting new data from its Phase 2b clinical trial of lead pertussis vaccine candidate, BPZE1, at the World Vaccine Congress to be held virtually September 28 – October 1, 2020. BPZE1 is currently being developed as a booster vaccine with future development investigating its application as a primary vaccination in infants.
The COVID-19 pandemic during 2020 presents a stark reminder of the importance of health worker safety and offers 'too many examples of health workers becoming infected and dying from COVID-19. The harsh consequences of inequalities have also been laid bare by the pandemic,' states a new commentary published by The Lancet.
As everyone marks the WHO's World Patient Safety Day 2020 on September 17,2 020, it is crucial to highlight that there can be no patient safety ...' without health worker safety. One cannot exist without the other.'
As in previous outbreaks of Ebola virus disease, MERS, and SARS-1, only when health workers are safe can they keep patients safe. Furthermore, 'Governments and healthcare organizations must act now to support and protect the health workforce ... so that we can provide safe care for our patients,' concluded this editorial.