Covid-19 News & Updates

[Big Boy]

Yes, I heard about that on the car radio earlier. On the radio it said it will set all of the vaccine work back months.

[Big Boy]

Lots of answers to that if you Google

Due to slow reporting at the weekend I believe.

Yes, silly me, believing what I read again. Unfortunately, the opening phrase of every Google enquiry I've ever made about Covid and Worldometers starts with:

Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking

[PeteC]

I don't know if the below is for real or just some official blowing smoke. In any event it's worth keeping in mind and await more details.

....."The southeast Asian nation has detected a highly infectious mutation of the virus, it said on Sunday, when the tally of cases stood at 9,200."

Penang halts medical tourists after arrivals from Indonesia

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/19 ... -indonesia

More details about this. It turns out this "new strain" is already the predominant strain in the EU and US.

Southeast Asia detects mutated virus strain sweeping the world

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/19697 ... -the-world

[sateeb]

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-04-07/why ... -in-europe

The coronavirus figure trend is still downwards across most of Europe, but an unwinding of the ‘weekend effect’ seems to be dampening some of the feel-good factor of yesterday.

In short, there seems to be a lag over the weekend as the figures on deaths and hospitalisations work their way through the system, such that reporting on Monday is artificially low, while on Tuesday the figures seem high as they catch up with reality.

[GroveHillWanderer]

I don't know if the below is for real or just some official blowing smoke. In any event it's worth keeping in mind and await more details.

....."The southeast Asian nation has detected a highly infectious mutation of the virus, it said on Sunday, when the tally of cases stood at 9,200.

This has been reported elsewhere and what they've detected is the same D614G mutation that emerged in Europe as the dominant strain many, many months ago. According to all the papers published about this mutation (again, going back some months now) while it appears to be more infectious, it's not more deadly and it has no effect on the efficacy the vaccines currently under development.

[nil]

At least the residents of Wuhan are enjoying themselves

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ch ... r-BB183kn3

[pharvey]

At least the residents of Wuhan are enjoying themselves

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ch ... r-BB183kn3

Had relatives sending the same - f***ing ridiculous brainless pr*cks, but that's China for you - it's just Essex on a bigger scale. The LHG is embarrassed beyond belief......

[Lost]

Flu and pneumonia now killing 6 times as many people in UK than covid.

[STEVE G]

At least the residents of Wuhan are enjoying themselves

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ch ... r-BB183kn3

Had relatives sending the same - f***ing ridiculous brainless pr*cks, but that's China for you - it's just Essex on a bigger scale. The LHG is embarrassed beyond belief......

After that comment, I'm never going to China. I once worked at Southend Airport for a few months and that was enough of Essex to last me a lifetime!

[dtaai-maai]

At least the residents of Wuhan are enjoying themselves

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ch ... r-BB183kn3

Had relatives sending the same - f***ing ridiculous brainless pr*cks, but that's China for you - it's just Essex on a bigger scale. The LHG is embarrassed beyond belief......

Forget the virus, who could consider that to be 'fun'???

[pharvey]

Flu and pneumonia now killing 6 times as many people in UK than covid.

Which paper have you started reading now..?

[Lost]

Flu and pneumonia now killing 6 times as many people in UK than covid.

Which paper have you started reading now..?

Daily Mail. The fountain of truth.

[PeteC]

There are a lot of sources:

https://www.google.com/search?client=op ... 8&oe=UTF-8

The most interesting to me, and probably where it originated:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... august2020

[lindosfan1]

China are only 34th in the world for the number of cases, only 22 today. Looking at the figures I believe someone is telling porkies.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Big Boy]

Flu and pneumonia now killing 6 times as many people in UK than covid.

Which paper have you started reading now..?

Daily Mail. The fountain of truth.

Playing with statistics, and dramatising the results.

Of course, the UK are getting Covid under control now, with the last 3 daily death rates being 5, 3 and 12. At the swan song of the virus, other illness are bound to overtake the Covid numbers.

Here in Thailand, anything has been worse than Covid for many weeks.