Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

Perhaps the different infections rates and demographics (far smaller population density in these areas) has played a part in it, so I can't see a big surge today.

Not this time of year, with holiday travel...

Coronavirus cluster found in Welshpool

POWYS Teaching Health Board have confirmed a cluster of coronavirus cases have been found in Welshpool.

www.countytimes.co.uk

 

[PhilM]

Not this time of year, with holiday travel...

Coronavirus cluster found in Welshpool

POWYS Teaching Health Board have confirmed a cluster of coronavirus cases have been found in Welshpool.

www.countytimes.co.uk

I was about thirty-miles from there where travel/holidaying isn't as significant as places likes Welshpool (sitting on the A483/A470 to Cardiff).

There weren't many locals about yet alone people from afar. It'll be interesting in places like Rhyl or Llandudno because they will be getting many more tourists.

 

[Barnfred 55]

I spent some time yesterday around the Shropshire, Cheshire and Wales border, including inside an Aldi, and masks were few and far between.

I saw only a handful all day after visiting a fair few local shops in two different towns. When I was back in Liverpool, it was clear that they were far more common.

Perhaps the different infections rates and demographics (far smaller population density in these areas) has played a part in it, so I can't see a big surge today.


You'd hope so, but it will be interesting to see how or if businesses actively enforce the rule; you'd hope they do, however it will boil down to pupil acceptance.

We went to our local supermarket yesterday. I'd say maybe 30% were now wearing masks compared to less that 10% a week ago. Wee weren't wearing 1 but we will from today. I expect the vast majority will be compliant. They're very good down here but there will also be over hundred thousand tourists per week over the next 6 weeks so we'll see

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I was about thirty-miles from there where travel/holidaying isn't as significant as places likes Welshpool (sitting on the A483/A470 to Cardiff).

There weren't many locals about yet alone people from afar. It'll be interesting in places like Rhyl or Llandudno because they will be getting many more tourists.

Myself I travel daily throughout exstentively Montgomeryshire and Meirionnydd some of the most rural place in the UK, through to the coast, it's packed, all verge parking normally reserved for very hot bank holidays. It's business as normal now and then some. It's no wonder a flu vaccination program has begun in earnest.

 

[zzr45]

Interesting bit on numbers in ‘France’ going up. Only for it to transpire that it’s actually in French Colonies.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Opening schools – and keeping them open – should be prioritised by Government, report says

Keeping schools open from September should be a Government priority as it manages the COVID-19 pandemic, while closures could have severe social and economic

www.cam.ac.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Imperial COVID-19 vaccine trial expands to additional sites | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Imperial College London's COVID-19 vaccine trial is expanding to additional sites throughout England.

www.imperial.ac.uk

 

[Billy Dean]

If you want to move out under your bridges, here your are

Vitamin D

Find out about vitamin D, including what it does, how much you need, and how to ensure you get enough.

www.nhs.uk

you never know the sun may enlighten you as well

nothing about face exposure there, so it can be exposure anywhere on the body then?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Just had the antibodies test done. Stopped off at Lidl on the way back and everyone is wearing a mask.

 

[tsubaki]

Just had the antibodies test done. Stopped off at Lidl on the way back and everyone is wearing a mask.

TBF where you live they could be just about to rob it

 

[Kenshin]

Escort mate of mine apparently still been working in recent weeks.

Puts me off our night out tbh - not being a fanny but at the time same dont feel like taking daft risks.

All depends on how many vunerable people you will encounter in every day life.

As much as it's not a popular thing to say, if you don't encounter anyone who would be at risk then there's less of a risk to you.

3 months ago it was the fear factor thing to say , think of someone else. If you know you aren't encountering any in the next few weeks then what's the real harm? Plus he won't have got the virus as he would be sick no?

I mean everyone I know who had it was sick to some capacity.

 

[Kurt.]

I was about thirty-miles from there where travel/holidaying isn't as significant as places likes Welshpool (sitting on the A483/A470 to Cardiff).

There weren't many locals about yet alone people from afar. It'll be interesting in places like Rhyl or Llandudno because they will be getting many more tourists.

Anglesey is currently rammed with holiday makers .... the roads near pen y pass at snowdon last week were also ridiculous

 

[spectateur]

Interesting bit on numbers in ‘France’ going up. Only for it to transpire that it’s actually in French Colonies.

Where did you get your numbers from?
According to article in today's Le Figaro, big jump in new cases in metropolitan France, not just DOMs. 5000 new cases last week, almost upto end of May figures.
Big hit areas are Bretagne and the Atlantic Coast. Packed with tourists, many form N France and Belgium and Netherlands.

 

[zzr45]

Where did you get your numbers from?
According to article in today's Le Figaro, big jump in new cases in metropolitan France, not just DOMs. 5000 new cases last week, almost upto end of May figures.
Big hit areas are Bretagne and the Atlantic Coast. Packed with tourists, many form N France and Belgium and Netherlands.

BBC -

• France has seen a 26% rise in cases in the past week. More than 1,000 infections were reported on Thursday. The most vulnerable areas are French Guiana, Mayotte (in the Indian Ocean) and Mayenne in north-west France

 

[spectateur]

BBC -

• France has seen a 26% rise in cases in the past week. More than 1,000 infections were reported on Thursday. The most vulnerable areas are French Guiana, Mayotte (in the Indian Ocean) and Mayenne in north-west France

OK, the beeb's Interprétation.
But it's the mass tourist areas here that are a worry on the minds of most people.