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Cathay Pacific and major shareholders Swire and Air China halt trading
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd (0293.HK) and its major shareholders Swire Pacific Ltd (0019.HK) and Air China Ltd (0753.HK) (601111.SS) entered share trading halts in Hong Kong on Tuesday pending announcements.
Cathay’s management team on Friday met with the leaders of pilot unions at Cathay Pacific and its regional arm Cathay Dragon to brief them on condition of confidentiality ahead of an announcement expected on Tuesday, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
A fourth person said Cathay was poised to announce a new chief executive at Dragon along with some other senior management changes. The sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak with media.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cathay-pacific/cathay-pacific-and-major-shareholders-swire-and-air-china-halt-trading-idUSKBN23G022
Nearly 1/4 of all Japan coronavirus deaths connected to in-hospital clusters
Novel coronavirus cluster infections are suspected to have broken out in 99 medical institutions throughout Japan, with at least 2,105 people including patients and health care workers having caught the virus, the Mainichi Shimbun has calculated based on interviews with medical and local government sources. The number of in-hospital infections accounted for 12% of all coronavirus cases confirmed in Japan. The number of deaths connected with cluster infections in hospitals accounted for 24% of all nationwide coronavirus deaths.
The Mainichi Shimbun conducted interviews in late May with medical institution and local government representatives regarding suspected in-hospital cluster infection cases they had reported.
The data and interviews revealed that in-hospital cluster infections apparently broke out at 99 medical institutions in 21 prefectures. By prefecture, the largest number of cases was recorded in Tokyo, with a total of 714 people having been confirmed infected in 19 hospitals, followed by Kanagawa's 242 cases in 13 hospitals, and Hokkaido's 228 cases in 10 hospitals. As for other large prefectures, Saitama is believed to have had 140 cases in eight hospitals, while Osaka recorded 285 cases in six hospitals, and Hyogo recorded 101 cases also in six hospitals.
The total number of nationwide in-hospital infections reached 1,028 patients, 1,013 health care workers, and 55 miscellaneous employees including clerical staff and external contractors. The statuses of nine people are unknown.
Although some hospitals did not reveal their COVID-19 fatality figures, at least 205 patients, or 20% of those infected while staying in hospital, died. The death rate for patients in hospital clusters was four times greater than that for all infected persons in Japan, which is 5%. There are many instances where inpatients have underlying chronic diseases, which apparently makes them susceptible to developing severe symptoms.
By hospital, the largest mass infections were found in Eiju General Hospital, a core hospital in the capital, with 214 infected patients and 43 COVID-19 deaths.
The Mainichi Shimbun also asked hospitals, which due to in-hospital infections had suspended or restricted new admissions as well as outpatient examinations and emergency visits, when they will return to normal service. At least 49 hospitals had suspended or restricted medical examinations as of May 20, accounting for almost half of medical institutions where clusters had emerged.
As of the same date, the average period of suspension or restriction of outpatient examinations was 28 days, with 32 hospitals stating the service reductions had gone on for 31 days or more. Twenty hospitals answered "20 to 30 days," while 16 hospitals answered "10 to 19 days" and three responded "less than 10 days."
The average period of suspension or restriction of emergency outpatient visits was 29 days. Twenty-six hospitals answered that it took them 31 days or more to resume accepting these patients, while 15 answered it took them 20 to 30 days. The responses for the amount of time needed to restart admitting new inpatients again was 27 days on average, with 28 hospitals answering "31 days or more" and 22 hospitals answering "20 to 30 days."
moar here
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200608/p2a/00m/0na/009000c
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that pretty much sums it up…
> FDIC will only have enough to cover Wall Street investors
not even that much, they have less than 3-4% of our accounts "covered" and that is nothing compared to the trillions Wal st. has