16-06-2021, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Omah
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BJ for one ..... 
A quick trip to the local church and a barbie in the back garden .....
16-06-2021, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Omah
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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/A further 9,055 confirmed cases in the UK were announced by the government on Wednesday.
That figure takes us back to 22nd February .....
Hospitalisations are increasing.
16-06-2021, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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This is alarming why is it rising ?
What will happen when the lockdown is relaxed completely is anyone's guess! Although by then with more people having had both vaccinations and others having had one, the outcome will be probably very difficult to assess until then.
16-06-2021, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Baz46
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That might just have something to do with the relaxing of the lockdown that has happened so far. Also there is the Delta variant which is, we are informed, 40% more infective than the previous variants. This is also reckoned to be responsible for 90% of new cases.What will happen when the lockdown is relaxed completely is anyone's guess! Although by then with more people having had both vaccinations and others having had one, the outcome will be probably very difficult to assess until then.
16-06-2021, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I believe the infection figures will climb to previous levels once the effects of lockdown are no longer being felt. However, I don't expect to see as many deaths and hospital admissions due to the vaccines and a better knowledge of what we are dealing with.
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Programme on Ch5 right now, eleven-and-a-half hour wait for a bed on a ward after going through A&E, appalling isn't it!!
Lucky that we are mostly tolerant and understanding isn't it!
17-06-2021, 02:10 AM
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Delta variant: Fact-checking claims about Covid and bordersThe governhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/57500637
First identified in India, Delta is now the dominant Covid-19 variant in the UK (responsible for 96% of new cases). Mr Johnson cited its spread when he announced a four-week delay to the lifting of restrictions in England.
And India was added to the red list, of countries with the government's strictest travel restrictions, on 23 April 2021 - two weeks after neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh.
We've looked into some of the claims.
Public Health England declared Delta a "variant under investigation" on 28 April (although it was not named Delta until the end of May).
And it had been designated as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 4 April
And in its weekly update on 30 March, the WHO pointed out India had the third highest number of new cases in the world, with a 55% increase on the previous week.
The Labour leader said this number had arrived in the UK in the month before India was put on the red list.
And according to the Civil Aviation Authority, a total of 42,406 people travelled between India and the UK in April.
It does not say how many of these were arriving or departing.
We looked for recent examples of Keir Starmer saying this and found one - from a year ago. But his position on quarantine for arrivals has hardened since.
In the first two months of this year, he raised it three times at Prime Minister's Questions. And for months, Labour has been calling for a "comprehensive hotel quarantine system for all arrivals into the UK".
Labs around the world analysing the virus's genetic material have been sharing their findings on a global database. And this appears to show the UK has more cases of the Delta variant than most of the rest of the world.
On the question of whether the UK has the highest rate of infections in Europe overall, the data does suggest that, although it is hard to make such comparisons because different countries count cases differently.
What we can say at the moment is cases in the UK and Portugal are rising while many of their neighbours are seeing cases falling.
17-06-2021, 05:39 PM
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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/A further 11,007 confirmed cases in the UK were announced by the government on Thursday.
That is a MASSIVE increase and the figure takes us back to 16th February .....
The rise is being drive by the North-West - 14,418 cases in the last 7 days; next highest is London with 6349 .....
Deaths and Hospitalisations are increasing.
17-06-2021, 06:10 PM
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UK has highest Covid case rate in Europe as Brits again excluded from EU travel listhttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/u...s-b941079.html
The EU says non-essential travel is safe to and from Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Lebanon, the US, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and China, all of whom are on a “white list”.
17-06-2021, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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Good grief, this is ridiculous! (as I have said so many times now!) I have no other words (polite ones anyway) which would convey how utterly incompetent this government is. We must be a laughing stock.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/c...-b1867517.html
Meanwhile, an internal NHS email seen by Channel 4 indicates that hospitals have been told to brace themselves for a likely third peak in early August. It warns “we are preparing for a third wave” and adds “the peak is expected to be 1 August”.
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