Wuhan virus 2020

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has met his cabinet in person for the first time in four months, telling them his government's "radical and reforming" agenda would not be "blown off course" by coronavirus.

The UK's chief medical officer, Prof Chis Whitty, told MPs he would "very much doubt" that there would be a legal requirement to have a coronavirus vaccine in the future, and he would expect it to be free - but that is a policy decision.

Just under 10,000 deaths were registered in the UK during the week of 10 July, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics.

That is about 600 (or 6%) below the average for that week in the preceding five years.

The majority of new coronavirus cases in Scotland are in Lanarkshire following an outbreak at a local call centre, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert in the US, will throw the first ceremonial pitch for the Washington Nationals when the pandemic-delayed baseball season restarts on Thursday.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has held a packet of hydroxychloroquine in front of a crowd of supporters which he claims has made him feel better.

Buenos Aires has begun lifting lockdown restrictions as Argentina balances the economic cost of the pandemic against the risk of continued spread.

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The financial mismanagement of some nations in the past ten years and their econimic failure and rejection for systemic reforms - now has found rich reward.

The virus is being abused as an alibi to push the EU massively towards a total, unlimited transfer union and collectiovisation of national debts. The eCB sees no limitsd anymore, and is welcomed to infintely finance states. The Maastricht treaty has always been dead, but now everybody has admitted it and nobody tries to give an opposite imporession anymore.

Its not exaggerated to conclude that for some die- hard EUcrats the plague was a god-sent present, like 9/11 was for Bush's then already collapsed presidency.

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A southkorean study shows that while little kids and young school children might be less infectious than adults, teenagers are far mor infectous than adults and cause infection of more other people, than infected adults do.



This study puts big question marks behind the political intentions across much of the Western world to open schools in full after summer holiday as if nothing happened.



Already in the past months, countries that consequently locked down schools from early on showed to acchieve positive effects from this and getting infection numbers quicker under control.



Is any of this really a surprise when you look at spirngbreak in the US, juvenile Mallorca tourism, and party excesses across the West? Teenagers and young adults after school tend to have blokeheads with a sign on the forehead that reads "temporarily closed due to structural alteration works".

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Australia sees its worst day yet in the pandemic, with more than 500 new cases.

The overwhelming majority of them are in the city of Melbourne.

The head of the Pan American Health Organization says the virus shows "no signs of slowing down" in the Americas.

President Donald Trump says the pandemic is going to get worse, and urges Americans to wear face masks.

Leading Democrat Nancy Pelosi dubs Covid-19 "Trump virus"

Health experts in the UK have told politicians Sars-Cov-2 virus will be with us for "decades"

There have been nearly 15m cases of the new virus worldwide and more than 600,000 deaths.

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The head of London's Metropolitan Police has said she hopes people will be “shamed” into complying with new rules on wearing face coverings in shops.

Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said police would respond as a last resort if shoppers without face masks refused to leave and were getting “aggressive”.

The World Health Organization has rejected allegations reportedly made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over its handling of the pandemic.

Mr Pompeo is currently visiting the UK for talks. Last night in London, Mr Pompeo was reported to have said that the head of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was "bought" by China and that there are "dead Britons" because of it.

An Austrian woman goes on trial today for ignoring quarantine rules. The unprecedented case involves a woman from Klagenfurt accused of going to the post office while suffering from Covid-19 and not wearing a mask. She could face a three-year jail term.

Ireland's government has relaxed quarantine rules on travel to and from 15 European countries but says the safest thing is still not to travel. The "green list" includes Malta, Finland, Norway, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and the Baltic republics. The UK, France and Spain remain on the quarantine list.

France's public health authority says it's still too early to give a precise coronavirus death toll - but says 29,186 deaths in hospitals and care homes were directly linked to the virus from March to the end of May. At one point, at the end of March, the mortality rate was 60% higher than normal.

Thailand is extending its state of emergency until the end of August, a senior official confirmed.

Stricter measures in Hong Kong will come into effect from midnight on Wednesday making it mandatory to wear face masks in all indoor public areas.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick

Now there's a moniker! She have anything to do with that spotted pudding?

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Originally Posted by August

Now there's a moniker! She have anything to do with that spotted pudding?

Bit of a tough cookie many say. Stamping her authority at every opportunity.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Now this is a reasonable u-turn. So the mask thing is now "de-politised" i guess?

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Basic income would allow 2.7 billion people to stay at home, a UN Development Programme report says.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the pandemic shows "sheer might of the union"

A committee of UK MPs says it is "astonished" by the government's failure to plan an economic response to the pandemic.

The cost of the pandemic has pushed Australia into its biggest budget deficit since World War Two.

Brazil registers more than 67,000 new cases in 24 hours, another record amount.

President Trump says he wants schools to reopen and would be "comfortable" sending his young son in.

Globally there have been 15 million cases of Sars-Cov-2 and more than 622,000 deaths.

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A vaccine developed by a Chinese pharmaceutical group could be ready by the end of this year, according to state media.

Liu Jingzhen, chairman of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), said human trials are expected to be completed within the next three months.

Sinopharm’s unit China National Biotec Group had warned that a vaccine might be delayed as a lack of infections in China made it difficult to find people to test it on. However it is now being trialled at a number of overseas sites, including the UAE.

Another vaccine by Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech was tested on people in Brazil.

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From FOCUS magazine.

Originally Posted by https://www.focus.de/gesundheit/news/umstaende-in-fabrik-unguenstig-studie-zu-corona-ausbruch-bei-toennies-uebertragung-des-virus-erfolgt-ueber-grosse-distanz_id_12241635.html

In a joint study by the Helmholtz Center (HZI), the Uni-Klinik Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and the Heinrich Pette Institute, the origins of the first coronavirus outbreak in May 2020 were examined at the Tönnies meat factory in Rheda-Wiedenbrück.

The results reconstruct the triggering transmission events of the outbreak in the Tönnies meat factory: starting from a single employee, the virus was transmitted to several people within a radius of more than eight meters. The main transmission took place in the cutting area for cattle quarters, where the air is circulated and cooled to ten degrees Celsius. In contrast, the housing situation of the workers during the investigated phase of the outbreak did not play an important role.

In addition, an analysis of the virus sequences shows that all people from the infection cluster who tested positive for the coronavirus in May share a new combination of eight mutations that had not previously been observed.

“Our study sheds light on SARS-CoV-2 infections in a work area where various factors meet that allow transmission over relatively long distances. The important question now is under what conditions transmission events over longer distances are possible in other areas of life, ”said Melanie Brinkmann, professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and research group leader at the HZI.

"Our results indicate that the conditions of the cutting operation - i.e. the low temperature, a low fresh air supply and constant air circulation through the air conditioning in the hall, together with strenuous physical work - the aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 particles over larger ones Funded distances, ”said Professor Adam Grundhoff, co-author of the study and research group leader at HPI.

“It is very likely that these factors generally play a crucial role in the global outbreaks in meat or fish processing plants. Under these conditions, a distance of 1.5 to 3 meters alone is obviously not sufficient to prevent transmission. "

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