Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

REGIONAL SCOREBOARD - THE NORTH

North East 1552 - down from 2124

Yorkshire 2639 - down from 2735


And North West 5274 - down from 6337

 

[wolfie1988]

Do the people doing the tests at testing centres have to go through the same strict process as what those who are administering the vaccine do?

We clearly have a brilliant testing capacity now but I'm amazed that an average of 400,000 a day are requiring a test.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Do the people doing the tests at testing centres have to go through the same strict process as what those who are administering the vaccine do?

We clearly have a brilliant testing capacity now but I'm amazed that an average of 400,000 a day are requiring a test.

I went for one yesterday and they were all ppe'd up and kept a respectful distance so I'd imagine they do

 

[MillionMilesAway]

1.3 million vaccinated so far
23% of over 80s - half of the total

Some details of GPs etc (about 1000 in all, I think - 570 GPs, 108 hospitals, some others)

The numbers are really important for people can see progress.
Further update on Thursday, and then daily from Monday.

Johnson said that the NHS had committed to doing the 13 million by mid-Feb (I think)

 

[Blue Maverick]

Why does a Boris keep setting targets does he not learn that if he doesn’t reach them he gets rightly pulled up on it. Just say we are going to do as many as we can.

 

[cleavers]

Anyone know if we have actually banned flights from South Africa yet? And insist on isolation for anyone who has been there in recent weeks?

Even if it is still debateable how much it might compromise a vaccine or if the vaccine can be modified afterwards anyway it would be idiotic not to do everything possible to keep it out given that we have one of our own on a spree everywhere already.

Not that I do not trust our government to do sensible things like that which any sane nation would do. Just checking.

No, Virgin have a flight to Johannesburg this evening from Heathrow.

I think we should be wary of flights from other parts of Africa too, because many places there do hardly any tests, and almost certainly won't have the potential to test for different variants, these countries will have much more contact with SA than we do.

 

[Ban-jani]

Do the people doing the tests at testing centres have to go through the same strict process as what those who are administering the vaccine do?

We clearly have a brilliant testing capacity now but I'm amazed that an average of 400,000 a day are requiring a test.

Do you mean are the checking if people actually have symptoms?

What do you mean?

 

[Stoned Rose]

Do the people doing the tests at testing centres have to go through the same strict process as what those who are administering the vaccine do?

We clearly have a brilliant testing capacity now but I'm amazed that an average of 400,000 a day are requiring a test.

I worked at the outdoor mobile testing sites for 4 months and not once were any of the staff tested.

I now work on the indoor "rapid" sites and all staff are tested before every shift. If negative they send you home for 10 days.

No idea why it's so different between.the two "types" of site and not one colleague/manager knows why either.

 

[Toney’s bookie]

No, Virgin have a flight to Johannesburg this evening from Heathrow.

I think we should be wary of flights from other parts of Africa too, because many places there do hardly any tests, and almost certainly won't have the potential to test for different variants, these countries will have much more contact with SA than we do.

The Virgin flights are probably freight only

 

[MillionMilesAway]

He definitely said that the NHS is committed by 13 February to the top 4 groups, including all frontline NHS.