Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Personally I wouldn’t believe a word of anything coming from the Chinese authorities.
They did say lockdowns worked and, despite years of evidence suggesting they didn’t, the west fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Chinese growth rate so far in 2021 is 8.5% and they actually grew by nearly 3% in 2020!
Who needs to start a war………..
 
Looks rather like the EU lost this one.

The Court of First Instance in Brussels has ruled that AZ must deliver 80.2 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by 27 September 2021.In its legal action against AZ, the EC had requested 120 million vaccine doses cumulatively by the end of June 2021, and a total of 300 million doses by the end of September – substantially more than the Court has ordered.”
It looks a bit of a fudge with both sides winning / losing a bit
 
Cases across the regions:


Change in last 24 hrs V seven days ago


SOUTH


East DOWN UP 14 to 443 V 299

London DOWN 28 to 1172 V 962

South East DOWN 80 to 802 V 586

South West DOWN 71 to 739 V 396


No sign yet of NW style rises in thes other regions bar SW.




MIDLANDS



East down 12 to 551 V 351

West DOWN 18 to 659 V 423



Much the same story here.




NORTH



North East UP 109 to 742 V 451 - Doubled in the week and up 6 times in a month another big rise today.


Yorkshire UP 38 to 991 V 700 - also up a little but not rising as fast as NE.



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NORTH WEST DOWN 216 to 2538 V 2191 - A good fall. Most of it in Greater Manchester wk to wk.




Past weeks NW numbers are 2191 - 2134 - 2262 - 2017 - 2157 - 2858 - 2754 - 2538

Equivalent NW numbers a week earlier 1755 - 1752 - 1605 - 1673 - 1840 - 2112 - 2317 - 2191

GM numbers in past week 1098 - 1037 - 1103 - 1014 - 925 - 1341 - 1306 - 1151


GMs contrbution to the NW total is getting smaller and smaller. Fell by 30% over the week.
 
Full GM details:


Total cases 1151 - DOWN 155 on Yesterday - from NW fall of 216. Well over 50% so good.

Wk to wk UP 53 when the NW rises by 347 - which is far below expectations of around 170.

So GM had another good day wk to wk relative to rest of the region.



BOROUGH / CASES TODAY / V YESTERDAY / V LAST WEEK



BOLTON 94 / DOWN 31 / DOWN 40

BURY 79 / DOWN 12 / UP 11

MANCHESTER 319 / DOWN 8 / UP 67

OLDHAM 92 / DOWN 11 / UP 27

ROCHDALE 75 / DOWN 10 / DOWN 17

SALFORD 114 / DOWN 31 / DOWN 19

STOCKPORT 94 / UP 8 / LEVEL

TAMESIDE 72 / DOWN 4 / UP 3

TRAFFORD 70 / DOWN 37 / UP 2

WIGAN 152 / DOWN 9 / UP 29


Stockport had the worst day after the best yesterday - the only one up on the day and just level week to week.

Several places down on both including Bolton that matched Stockport's score for the first time in weeks.

Manchester's still in the 300s and up the most week to week and Wigan nearest to them.

All in all a good day.
 
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Greater Manchester

Weekly total cases:-





Tameside 482, Rochdale 507, Oldham 528, Trafford 576, Stockport 580, Bury 626, Bolton 740, Salford 861. Wigan 992, Manchester 1995.



Manchester almost 2000 now and Salford and Wigan both ahead of Bolton with Wigan closing in on four figures.

Stockport's good few days see it fall back even more and almost catch Trafford. And even though not falling today still made up ground as they did not go up and Trafford did.

Only Tameside sub 500 now.
 
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AZ didn’t lose any part of it in reality as they’ve already delivered the vast majority of the doses they were ordered to deliver.
Both parties lost a bit when they went to court. A customer and a supplier becoming adversaries isn’t a win. I accept these AZ are likely to meet the doses requirement set by the Courts.
 
Looks rather like the EU lost this one.

The Court of First Instance in Brussels has ruled that AZ must deliver 80.2 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by 27 September 2021.In its legal action against AZ, the EC had requested 120 million vaccine doses cumulatively by the end of June 2021, and a total of 300 million doses by the end of September – substantially more than the Court has ordered.”

Yes and no. AZ will be relieved they don’t have to meet the EU’s vaccine demands and are unlikely to face fines.

However for the bloc it wasn’t about number of dosages. Politico had a good breakdown of the judgement.

‘But this case was never really about the doses. The Commission’s case was about proving AstraZeneca was wrong. Here, the EU succeeded.

"The judgment has recognized that AstraZeneca has breached, perhaps intentionally, at least seriously, the contract," a lawyer representing the Commission said. "Therefore on the principles and the way that the contract must be performed in the future, the judgment is entirely satisfying."

The judge stated ‘It seems [AstraZeneca] freely violated its contractual guarantee," citing a contract provision clearly stating that AstraZeneca didn't have any other competing contracts to block its obligations to the EU.


For AZ - ‘the judge refused the Commission’s request to create a binding delivery schedule for the rest of the 220 million doses, calling it "premature" because it's too soon to say whether the company will fall short on its full schedule of obligations.’

Irrespective of the Courts decision, the fact remains AZ has been sidelined by the bloc and by several European countries with Pfizer winning the contract to provide a further 1.8 billion doses into next year.

AZ’s argument that it made ‘best endeavours’ was struck down which is a major problem for a pharma company wishing to do future business with the bloc.
 
Yes and no. AZ will be relieved they don’t have to meet the EU’s vaccine demands and are unlikely to face fines.

However for the bloc it wasn’t about number of dosages. Politico had a good breakdown of the judgement.

‘But this case was never really about the doses. The Commission’s case was about proving AstraZeneca was wrong. Here, the EU succeeded.

"The judgment has recognized that AstraZeneca has breached, perhaps intentionally, at least seriously, the contract," a lawyer representing the Commission said. "Therefore on the principles and the way that the contract must be performed in the future, the judgment is entirely satisfying."

The judge stated ‘It seems [AstraZeneca] freely violated its contractual guarantee," citing a contract provision clearly stating that AstraZeneca didn't have any other competing contracts to block its obligations to the EU.


For AZ - ‘the judge refused the Commission’s request to create a binding delivery schedule for the rest of the 220 million doses, calling it "premature" because it's too soon to say whether the company will fall short on its full schedule of obligations.’

Irrespective of the Courts decision, the fact remains AZ has been sidelined by the bloc and by several European countries with Pfizer winning the contract to provide a further 1.8 billion doses into next year.

AZ’s argument that it made ‘best endeavours’ was struck down which is a major problem for a pharma company wishing to do future business with the bloc.
I agree mate. it wasn’t really about the EU wanting many millions of extra doses.
 
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