COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[MCFC1993]

So declared a pandemic; if you thought panic buying was ridiculous before hand wait until you see the shops this evening, I bet they'll be hammered.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

You get the feeling this guy is telling every country to get their act together as this is fuckin serious. He ain't pulling any punches.

This is from the head of the World health organisation.

He can’t make it any clearer. Yet our nation thinks it will go away when the sun peeks through the clouds. No need to do anything.

 

[kaz7]

Where are you seeing the data? Thought they were holding their daily briefing at 5pm GMT.

The coronavirus outbreak has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

More than 4,300 people have died globally after contracting COVID-19, the prevalent strain of coronavirus, and there have been over 121,500 confirmed infections.


There have been more than 3,000 deaths in China, the epicentre of the outbreak.

And in Italy, the second worst affected country worldwide, the number of dead in the most severely hit region of Lombardy has reportedly risen from 468 to 617 in a day

 

[cptaidan88]

How is access difficult?

If you can't afford it, you generally can't access it.

 

[urban genie]

It's a pandemic unless it's the US and UK, then it's just a minnor occurance and not a worry.

Unless you're short on bog roll

 

[cptaidan88]

The coronavirus outbreak has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

More than 4,300 people have died globally after contracting COVID-19, the prevalent strain of coronavirus, and there have been over 121,500 confirmed infections.


There have been more than 3,000 deaths in China, the epicentre of the outbreak.

And in Italy, the second worst affected country worldwide, the number of dead in the most severely hit region of Lombardy has reportedly risen from 468 to 617 in a day

Weren't they yesterdays figures?

Edit: 631 deaths in Italy was reported yesterday.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

If you thought panic buying was ridiculous before hand wait until you see the shops this evening, I bet they'll be hammered.

Panic buying is one of those things where there are enough irrational people that it makes the irrational thing rational. If you don't panic buy then when you want to buy something normally, it's no longer available. But by making that now sensible decision to stock up, you become one of the idiots contributing to the problem.

 

[SWP's back]

I have noticed that in hotter countries the growth has certainly been lower. Singapore was once near the top of the list but is now below most European countries. Thailand a week or two ago had about the same number as the UK but hasn't grown at anything like the same rate. There aren't many countries with presently high temperatures near the top of the table, so it may well help reduce the rate of transmission.

As I say, the cases just rose from 3 new cases on each of the last two days, to 238 new cases today.

Kuwait has just banned all flights in and out and shops and business and public places are to closed for two weeks.

So don’t get your hopes up just yet. It could just be that ‘warmer’ countries are just behind the curve. Two weeks ago, Italy only had a handful of cases don’t forget.

 

[MCFC1993]

Panic buying is one of those things where there are enough irrational people that it makes the irrational thing rational. If you don't panic buy then when you want to buy something normally, it's no longer available. But by making that now sensible decision to stock up, you become one of the idiots contributing to the problem.

In a nutshell, as unwell as I am it's even making me feel the need to venture out tonight to pick up a few essentials. Which wouldn't be smart as I have some sort of flu (probably not the virus but who knows).

 

[Tricky_Trev]

They should have announced support for paying for funerals in today’s budget, what with them doing nothing to mitigate this.

Weren't they yesterdays figures?

They might be yeah. They just announced it on Sky News as if it were breaking. Let’s see what comes out at 5pm