Corona Virus Updates Part 5

The last 24 hours..

alert 5986 new cases and 627 new deaths in Italy [source] [source]

Peak could be 2 weeks from now, according to tentative estimates [source]

Deaths include:

a 48-year-old woman who worked as a supermarket cashier in Brescia and died at home after developing a high fever at the beginning of this week
a 47-year-old Army of Carabinieri emergency number command center operator in Bergamo who had been hospitalized in intensive care

originally posted by: BlueSwan
Watching BBCs live Boris Johnson conference. He just announced that as of tonight, pubs, clubs, restaurants, gyms, theatres, leisure centres etc are to close. Not optional, mandatory.

edit: Wow, they've also announced a Wage Replacement scheme. To encourage employers to not lay people off they're paying 80% of people's wages (up to a total of £2500 per month), which employers can then top up if they wish to. They're saying there's no limit to the budget for this

edit 2: No business will pay VAT until the end of June.
Anyone claiming Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit will get an extra £1000 a year (around 84 per month).
Housing Benefit to be increased to help out those renting.

I missed the parts about people on working tax credits, so thank you for clarifying that. Guess that takes care of the sole-traders/self employed then.......
Rainbows
Jane

"PA Department of Health
@PAHealthDept
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We continue to be concerned about spread of #COVID19 to seniors. Preliminary analysis from CDC shows that 20% of all hospitalized patients in US are 20-44 years old.

We're seriously concerned that people age 20-44 are not heeding message to STAY HOME + creating unnecessary risk."

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Madagascar confirms first cases of coronavirus:

www.reuters.com... dit.com

Anybody play Plague Inc.?

a reply to: clay2 baraka

The part about dying at home within a week is sad.

a reply to: UFO1414
Usually someone sneezes on the other side of the world and Madagascar immediately shuts down, Yep. Was wondering about there.

originally posted by: BlueSwan
Watching BBCs live Boris Johnson conference. He just announced that as of tonight, pubs, clubs, restaurants, gyms, theatres, leisure centres etc are to close. Not optional, mandatory.

edit: Wow, they've also announced a Wage Replacement scheme. To encourage employers to not lay people off they're paying 80% of people's wages (up to a total of £2500 per month), which employers can then top up if they wish to. They're saying there's no limit to the budget for this

edit 2: No business will pay VAT until the end of June.
Anyone claiming Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit will get an extra £1000 a year (around 84 per month).
Housing Benefit to be increased to help out those renting.

If they want people to get the virus, wouldn't it be cheaper to pay for all the beer at the pubs?
Because it seems that they want people to get the virus, keeping them at work when there isn't enough work for their employers to justify keeping them on.

People Pretending to Be CDC Officials Are Knocking on Doors, Selling Fake Coronavirus Testing

The office of New York’s Attorney General, Letitia James, sent out a release on Thursday evening alerting people to the new scam, which her office says has been happening to residents in the upstate New York county of Otsego, which includes Cooperstown. But the problem doesn’t seem to be limited to one county in New York. Local police departments in Ohio and Florida have received similar reports of a people knocking on doors, dressed in white lab coats, masks, and gloves claiming to be officials from the CDC or the Department of Health and offering to test people for COVID-19 for money.

www.motherjones.com...

originally posted by: SpartanStoic
Latest figures released by China Mobile show that they have lost 8.116 million users in Jan and Feb. Where are these users now? Switched to other carriers? Or, they couldn't carry their phone to the nether world?

Jennifer Zeng Twitter

So where did those users go? Not to other carriers as they were on various states of lockdown or quarantine. Most businesses were closed so they couldn’t have visited a store to change providers.

You can see from the graph that this change is extremely unusual. Also note that most people in China don’t have PCs, their mobile phone is their PC, wallet and communications in one device. Masses of people just don’t shutdown their mobile phone accounts in China, it’s a basic necessity because most use WeChat for payments at stores, subways, buses etc. Changing providers in China is a major pain, I did it once in 12 years coz it’s not fun. Very complicated to change provider, reregister all your accounts because bound to your SIM and then deauthorize your banks on your phone.

Like I have said a number of times China's numbers if truth be known staggering! This is further indicative evidence.

714 new cases in the UK today.

originally posted by: angelchemuel

originally posted by: BlueSwan
Watching BBCs live Boris Johnson conference. He just announced that as of tonight, pubs, clubs, restaurants, gyms, theatres, leisure centres etc are to close. Not optional, mandatory.

edit: Wow, they've also announced a Wage Replacement scheme. To encourage employers to not lay people off they're paying 80% of people's wages (up to a total of £2500 per month), which employers can then top up if they wish to. They're saying there's no limit to the budget for this

edit 2: No business will pay VAT until the end of June.
Anyone claiming Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit will get an extra £1000 a year (around 84 per month).
Housing Benefit to be increased to help out those renting.

I missed the parts about people on working tax credits, so thank you for clarifying that. Guess that takes care of the sole-traders/self employed then.......
Rainbows
Jane

There are a great number of self-employed and some-traders out there. Pretty much left to burn, as usual. An extra £84 a month for them, which, if the government wanted to be pedantic, they wouldn’t be entitled to anyway, as they’re not working.

As deliveries soar, UPS drivers say company's coronavirus precautions may not keep them or customers safe

“I got 160 stops, 300 packages,” one UPS driver said. “I deliver to doctors’ offices, urgent cares. The potential for bad things to happen is crazy.” Deliveries are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic as Americans stay home from work and school, but 12 UPS drivers in nine states tell NBC News they don’t think their company has done enough to protect workers or the millions of customers they serve. UPS has told drivers across the country not to share their hand-held devices with customers when making signature deliveries, and drivers in California, Wisconsin, Michigan and Washington said their daily morning meetings had been canceled since Monday to avoid forming crowds. But drivers in all nine states said UPS hadn’t provided any protective gear to workers in their areas — no gloves or masks — or instituted “no contact” deliveries. They would also like the company to supply them with hand sanitizer, but UPS has instead advised frequent hand washing, which drivers said isn’t particularly feasible on their routes. The drivers spoke on the condition of anonymity, due to fears about losing their jobs.

www.nbcnews.com...

I think I heard Boris say he will allow the pubs and restaurants to do take outs still?
That will just mean long queues on the streets surely.
That doesn't seem wise.

You thought those lines of Koreans queuing for masks were long?
You have seen nothing.

originally posted by: MissBeck
UK numbers now updated. 714 new cases. But the new deaths has dropped to 33.

Worldometers

And I've just noticed that the total death number has dropped! A couple of pages ago UFO screenshotted the page at 6.24pm. On that scrreen shot it showed total deaths as 814. Now it says 177.

Confused.

They sometimes have cock-ups, like this week (iirc) they showed the Vatican with like 8 billion deaths or something.
If it looks like a massive jump, and then back down to something more sensible, its possibly a mistake in an update.
It does suddenly give you the cold sweats though when you first come across the numbers like that...

originally posted by: butcherguy

originally posted by: BlueSwan
Watching BBCs live Boris Johnson conference. He just announced that as of tonight, pubs, clubs, restaurants, gyms, theatres, leisure centres etc are to close. Not optional, mandatory.

edit: Wow, they've also announced a Wage Replacement scheme. To encourage employers to not lay people off they're paying 80% of people's wages (up to a total of £2500 per month), which employers can then top up if they wish to. They're saying there's no limit to the budget for this

edit 2: No business will pay VAT until the end of June.
Anyone claiming Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit will get an extra £1000 a year (around 84 per month).
Housing Benefit to be increased to help out those renting.

If they want people to get the virus, wouldn't it be cheaper to pay for all the beer at the pubs?
Because it seems that they want people to get the virus, keeping them at work when there isn't enough work for their employers to justify keeping them on.

He's paying 80% of salaries to keep people on the books. If your industry is ordered to shut down, HMRC pick up that bill.

Regarding deliveries... had a couple in the last day or so... they are standing well back and pointing at the box on the doorstep and then moving off quickly.

I don't know about anyone else, but literally everything (for the past 2 weeks and beyond) that is coming into the house is doused in disinfectant and washed down, with any extra packaging put straight in the bin outside. No hand to mouth/face during this, and then a thorough hand wash etc.

Don't take chances folks. No amount of measures would seem too much at the moment.

France's Numbers are in :

12,612 Total Cases
+1,617 cases today

450 Total Deaths
+78 Deaths today.

www.worldometers.info...

edit to add :
5226 Hospitalised, of those, 1297 in ER.

originally posted by: Furryhobnob
This is why people need to be told to lockdown, if you don't enforce it and reduce the number of trains for the London underground. You end up with people that need to goto work crammed in, potentially spreading it more and more!
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Or you can just allow doctors, nurses and EMTs to administer high dose IV Vitamin C at any approved facility, and we don't have to worry about people dying any more, and the world can go back to business as usual.

a reply to: RP2SticksOfDynamite

They mean workers being retained on the payroll; while the site is closed; at home.

originally posted by: Kenzo
Lockdown of World when there is actually treatments, both natural and pharmaceuticals just dont make sense to me, there are far greater threat from people panic, economical side, food supply , toilet paper etc than from this virus...

The biggest threat with this thing, is governments using the fear and panic to institute all kinds of draconian, unConstitutional garbage. I'll be surprised if we don't come out of this without losing seriously wrt our civil liberties.