COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[kaz7]

Workers at businesses forced to shut due to stricter lockdown measures will have two-thirds of their salaries paid by the government.

Coronavirus: Rishi Sunak reveals targeted furlough scheme for hospitality industry in COVID hotspots

The government will pay employees who cannot work 67% of their salaries, up to £2,100 a month.

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[Gaylord du Bois]

Anyone else on here been ill with it recently? Been very flu like so far

Not me. I had it at Christmas.

 

[kaz7]

The government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said the R number is now between 1.2 and 1.5 - down from between 1.3 and 1.6 last week.

Coronavirus: UK's R number down slightly to between 1.2 and 1.5

Last week the R number was between 1.3 and 1.6, up from between 1.2 and 1.5 the previous week.

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[worsleyweb]

The government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said the R number is now between 1.2 and 1.5 - down from between 1.3 and 1.6 last week.

Coronavirus: UK's R number down slightly to between 1.2 and 1.5

Last week the R number was between 1.3 and 1.6, up from between 1.2 and 1.5 the previous week.

news.sky.com

a bit of good news at last. Maybe due to tonnes of students getting it when they first went back.

 

[Marvin]

looks to me like they got the numbers that they needed to get lockdowns in the north and are now allocating the numbers back to London so they can lock them down as

The government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said the R number is now between 1.2 and 1.5 - down from between 1.3 and 1.6 last week.

Coronavirus: UK's R number down slightly to between 1.2 and 1.5

Last week the R number was between 1.3 and 1.6, up from between 1.2 and 1.5 the previous week.

news.sky.com

Some amazing figures in the Men for numbers of students who tested positive in Mcr Halls of residence. 42.5%

 

[kaz7]

a bit of good news at last. Maybe due to tonnes of students getting it when they first went back.

You need to come down south, tent in the garden, be nice lol

 

[worsleyweb]

Some amazing figures in the Men for numbers of students who tested positive in Mcr Halls of residence. 42.5%

maybe in the long run that is a good thing. Mind you my daughter has been poorly all week and no taste or smell now and so tough with her all alone in halls.

 

[cleavers]

Some amazing figures in the Men for numbers of students who tested positive in Mcr Halls of residence. 42.5%

The more I read on this, the more I think this was someone's "plan" to get a big and quick spread amongst youngsters in the hope that once they've had it, they can't get it again, and spread it widely later in the year ?

I understand that they have probably spread it unknowingly in the community, but for many this is where they probably picked it up, as most didn't have it when they went back.

 

[Del_Bosque]

maybe in the long run that is a good thing. Mind you my daughter has been poorly all week and no taste or smell now and so tough with her all alone in halls.

genuinely a scandal

took all that money for rent when most of the lectures are on line anyway

 

[cleavers]

genuinely a scandal

took all that money for rent when most of the lectures are on line anyway

Effectively kills 2 birds with 1 stone, so to speak, as it gets the rent money in, and spreads it virulently amongst the least affected, who are then locked in for 2 weeks, in the hope that infections then start falling quickly in the medium term.

Sadly it will also have been passed to older and more vulnerable people not in the student community, which has led to a growth in hospital admissions.