Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Jimishorts]

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Did the banners have this and the word MURDERERS on them too ?

If so, I`d imagine a fair few turned around and went home.

Reckon @davek favours a full on gas mask if he ever leaves his lair.

 

[COYBL25]

Reckon @davek favours a full on gas mask if he ever leaves his lair.

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lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 213 deaths were announced today, down 192 on yesterday and down 146 on last Friday. 174 deaths were in English hospitals, down 10 on yesterday and down 133 on last week. The 7 day rolling average falls to 254.43

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 236 deaths were announced today, down 6 on yesterday and down 109 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 263.71

For the 60 day cut off, 412 deaths were announced today, up 42 on yesterday and down 167 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 404.14

Also a note on vaccines, over 22 million have been given out now, a little over 1 million of which are second doses. By country this breaks down as follows

Eng - 18.11m first, 729k second
Wal - 967k first, 154k second
Sco - 1.72m first, 108k second
NI - 568k first, 41k second

 

[SussexToffee]

992,812 tests.... still cannot get my head round that and that even found 5,947 cases, which is one of the lowest Fridays in absolutely ages.

 

[SussexToffee]

Rother had 0 cases and 0 deaths yesterday; this is a council authority right next door to Hastings where I live. It’s home to John Logie Baird who invented television while he lived in Bexhill.

Hastings has had a few up and down days lately and I feared the Brazil variant that was tracked today was here, so I hope we follow Rother’s tracks soon.

 

[peteblue]

U.K. vaccines....446K jabs given yesterday.....total first jabs 21,358,815......total second jabs 1.034,068 giving an overall total of 22,392,883.....

 

[davek]

Countries could 'lurch into third and fourth surges' if curbs are hastily eased, WHO expert warns​

The arrival of Covid vaccines should not tempt countries to relax efforts to fight the pandemic, top World Health Organizationofficials said on Friday, citing particular concern about the situation in Brazil. “We think we’re through this. We’re not,” Mike Ryan, WHO’s top emergency expert, told an online briefing, according to Reuters. “Countries are going to lurch into third and fourth surges if we’re not careful.”

 

[SussexToffee]

U.K. vaccines....446K jabs given yesterday.....total first jabs 21,358,815......total second jabs 1.034,068 giving an overall total of 22,392,883.....

We’ll be out of this as planned, or a little later on. I don’t care what Dave says, he just likes the idea of the world being ruined for some reason.

 

[Neiler]

992,812 tests.... still cannot get my head round that and that even found 5,947 cases, which is one of the lowest Fridays in absolutely ages.

.6% positivity rate, that is ridiculously good, if those numbers are correct, well done all!! (Unless my Maths are wrong).

TBH I often work out and look at the positivity rate rather then the headline figures to see how things are going overall in a community.

 

[BlueToff]

Countries could 'lurch into third and fourth surges' if curbs are hastily eased, WHO expert warns​

The arrival of Covid vaccines should not tempt countries to relax efforts to fight the pandemic, top World Health Organizationofficials said on Friday, citing particular concern about the situation in Brazil. “We think we’re through this. We’re not,” Mike Ryan, WHO’s top emergency expert, told an online briefing, according to Reuters. “Countries are going to lurch into third and fourth surges if we’re not careful.”

Nobody thinks we're through this

 

[davek]

Nobody thinks we're through this

I dont like the situation in Europe.

 

[COYBL25]

I dont like the situation in Europe.

Easily solved, move to China ?

 

[davek]

Easily solved, move to China ?

China? It's the UK Virus that's the problem.

 

[BlueToff]

I dont like the situation in Europe.

It's getting better, day by day.

And schools going back, when you and plenty of others have been decrying the amount of kids in school anyway (but rates have still fallen dramatically), with the amount of testing that is set to be done, shouldn't - hopefully - cause a spike which isn't managageble.

That's all the next 3 weeks is. And it has to be done at some point. There's no guarantee that waiting another 6 months will be a success, because the issue of variants will still be there.

 

[davek]

It's getting better, day by day.

And schools going back, when you and plenty of others have been decrying the amount of kids in school anyway (but rates have still fallen dramatically), with the amount of testing that is set to be done, shouldn't - hopefully - cause a spike which isn't managageble.

That's all the next 3 weeks is. And it has to be done at some point. There's no guarantee that waiting another 6 months will be a success, because the issue of variants will still be there.

I think ypoulrer being way too simplistic in what you believe is possible - even now we're seeing some increase in the community of infection.

Nothing should be unlocked until the country is fully vaccinated.