[Alf]

Apparently there's a big party happening in Downing Street tonight. I hope they're all wearing their muzzles.

[arista]

Alf

In Parliament Live, right now

they just voted on the Coronavirus Regulations in England


431 Ayes
36 Noes

Majority for these Rules You Alf & all of us in England
must now Follow is 395


The Law is the Law

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Apparently there's a big party happening in Downing Street tonight. I hope they're all wearing their muzzles.

No Alf
he is no longer in the Cabinet
the Dirty Shagger

[arista]

[30 November 2021
Because of a delay in receiving cases data for England,
today's update is delayed.
The current estimate for release is 6pm.
Further updates will be provided here.]

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[arista]

DM reporter
said to the PM many are Cancelling Xmas Partys
and School Plays

[arista]

['Likely' there is community transmission
of Omicron in UK - Javid

Responding to the Daily Mail's Jason Groves,
Health Secretary Sajid Javid says it is
"likely" there is community transmission.]




It has Now Concluded.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

DM reporter
said to the PM many are Cancelling Xmas Partys
and School Plays

Destroying childhoods. Shame on them.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Destroying childhoods. Shame on them.

But the Prime Minister
replied to that reporter
saying, Do Not Cancel.

[arista]

The Parliament Voted on Face Mask Rule

434 Yeas
23 Noes

So Alf it's the Law
obey the Law.

[Alf]

Is this variant called Omicron B or just Omicron?

I've seen it been called Omicron B.

[arista]

UK now has 22 Cases of Omicron Covid cases

[Barnet 2 (new),
Brentwood 1,
Camden 2 (1 new),
Haringey 1 (new),
Liverpool 1 (new),
North Norfolk 1 (new),
Nottingham 1, Sutton 1 (new),
Wandsworth 1 and
Westminster 2 (1 new).

Of the nine cases in Scotland,
five are in Lanarkshire and
four are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.]

[Cherie]

reece will make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for people aged 60 and over, as the country grapples with a new surge in coronavirus cases.

Authorities said they would impose a €100 fine on every individual over the age of 60 who was not vaccinated.

The measure would apply each month from 16 January onwards.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he struggled with the decision, but it was necessary to protect more than half a million elderly Greeks who had failed to get the jab.

"Its the price to pay for health," he said.

About 63% of Greece's around 11 million population is fully vaccinated.

While vaccine appointments have picked up in recent weeks, health ministry data shows there are 520,000 people over the age of 60 who have failed to get a jab.

Greece this month barred unvaccinated people from indoors spaces including restaurants, cinemas, museums and gyms as daily Covid-19 cases hit record highs.

It has recorded 931,183 infections and 18,067 deaths since the start of the pandemic last year.

Dutch find Omicron a week earlier than thought

Dutch health authorities said that the new Covid-19 variant was present in the Netherlands a week earlier than previously believed and checks are under way to see how far it has spread.

The RIVM National Health and Environment Institute said it "has found the corona variant Omicron in two test samples that had already been taken in the Netherlands... on November 19 and 23".

The first cases in the Netherlands had been thought to be the 14 Omicron infections on two KLM flights from South Africa that arrived in Amsterdam on Friday, 26 November.

The two earlier Dutch infections also came before South Africa first reported the new strain on 24 November to the World Health Organization, which has designated Omicron a variant of concern.

"It is not yet clear whether the people concerned (in the earlier cases) have also been to southern Africa," the RIVM said, adding that the people had been informed and municipal health services had now started contact investigations.

With 16 confirmed cases, the Netherlands has one of the highest numbers in Europe of the new strain.

Norwegians should wear face masks in crowded places, PM says

Norwegians should wear face masks on public transport and in other crowded places amid a surge in coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere has said.

He also urged municipalities to accelerate a drive to give booster shots to all adults, but did not call for a widespread use of digital "corona passes".

"Vaccination is key to our Covid-19 strategy," Ms Stoere told parliament.

"We can avoid a lockdown," he added.

Norway in September ended all domestic coronavirus restrictions, but opposition parties in recent days called on the government to take action to prevent the spread of the virus and thus avoid a hard lockdown of society.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Is this variant called Omicron B or just Omicron?

I've seen it been called Omicron B.

Just the one word

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Alf

Is this variant called Omicron B or just Omicron?

I've seen it been called Omicron B.

Omicron, think the B was added so Parmy could do an anagram of No Chrimbo

[arista]

400 Military staff to help with Vaccines.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Omicron, think the B was added so Parmy could do an anagram of No Chrimbo

After a quick Google search the full title is. Omicron (B.1.1.529)

So there is a B and it is an anagram of No Crimbo

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

UK now has 22 Cases of Omicron Covid cases

[Barnet 2 (new),
Brentwood 1,
Camden 2 (1 new),
Haringey 1 (new),
Liverpool 1 (new),
North Norfolk 1 (new),
Nottingham 1, Sutton 1 (new),
Wandsworth 1 and
Westminster 2 (1 new).

Of the nine cases in Scotland,
five are in Lanarkshire and
four are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.]

Are the 22 vaccinated or unvaccinated? If there's only 22, it shouldn't be hard to find out that.

[LeatherTrumpet]

'A benign omicron may be the answer to our economic prayers'
It is almost too good to believe. The days go by and there is still little
evidence that the omicron wave in South Africa is leading to a concomitant
surge in severe illness.

Professor Francois Balloux, director of the UCL Genetics Institute, says we
cannot rule out the “highly optimistic scenario” of a late-epidemic mutation
that is extremely contagious, displaces delta, but does less harm.

If we are “a bit lucky”, he says, the replication rate of the virus in host cells
proves slower than the delta variant, leading to less hospitalisation and
death.

If we are “really lucky”, it also replicates preferentially in mucosa cells of the
upper airways, rather than in organs such as the lungs and the kidneys
where it does greatest damage. This would be the answer to our prayers.

Markets have taken a fresh beating this morning on warnings from Moderna
that it is “not going to be good” for the existing vaccines. But if the disease is
indeed milder, a slippage in antibody protection levels may not matter, and
we still have T-cell memory as the next line of defence.


TELEGRAPH

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Cherie

reece will make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for people aged 60 and over, as the country grapples with a new surge in coronavirus cases.

Our Reece has gone far.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Our Reece has gone far.

He is ruling Greece now, no time for TiBB

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Alf

After a quick Google search the full title is. Omicron (B.1.1.529)

So there is a B and it is an anagram of No Crimbo

Delta is B.1.617.2)

Its not called Delta B

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

'A benign omicron may be the answer to our economic prayers'
It is almost too good to believe. The days go by and there is still little
evidence that the omicron wave in South Africa is leading to a concomitant
surge in severe illness.

Professor Francois Balloux, director of the UCL Genetics Institute, says we
cannot rule out the “highly optimistic scenario” of a late-epidemic mutation
that is extremely contagious, displaces delta, but does less harm.

If we are “a bit lucky”, he says, the replication rate of the virus in host cells
proves slower than the delta variant, leading to less hospitalisation and
death.

If we are “really lucky”, it also replicates preferentially in mucosa cells of the
upper airways, rather than in organs such as the lungs and the kidneys
where it does greatest damage. This would be the answer to our prayers.

Markets have taken a fresh beating this morning on warnings from Moderna
that it is “not going to be good” for the existing vaccines. But if the disease is
indeed milder, a slippage in antibody protection levels may not matter, and
we still have T-cell memory as the next line of defence.


TELEGRAPH

[arista]

Tuesday 30/11/21

159 have Died
39,716 have Caught Covid-19

Patients in hospital
Latest available
7,631

Patients in
ventilation beds
Latest available
916



144,969 Total UK Deaths of Covid-19

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[LeatherTrumpet]

SIR – Let me get this right. The Prime Minister is saying that I must wear a mask in a
shop, even if I’m the only one in there and I’m in and out in a matter of minutes, but I
can spend all night in a pub with scores of other people and I don’t need a mask.

Mike Tugby
Warminster, Wiltshire



SIR – What is the logic behind allowing us free access to cinemas with no face masks #where, if the auditorium is full, one can observe no sort of distancing, yet in a #supermarket, where observing social distancing doesn’t present much of a problem, #we have to mask up?

Matthew Biddlecombe
Sampford Courtenay, Devon

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

SIR – Let me get this right. The Prime Minister is saying that I must wear a mask in a
shop, even if I’m the only one in there and I’m in and out in a matter of minutes, but I
can spend all night in a pub with scores of other people and I don’t need a mask.

Mike Tugby
Warminster, Wiltshire



SIR – What is the logic behind allowing us free access to cinemas with no face masks #where, if the auditorium is full, one can observe no sort of distancing, yet in a #supermarket, where observing social distancing doesn’t present much of a problem, #we have to mask up?

Matthew Biddlecombe
Sampford Courtenay, Devon

Makes no sense in cinema...eating and drinking was the explanation for pubs