[Nicky91]

are most of those new cases in UK, part of India variant?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

are most of those new cases in UK, part of India variant?

Nope, the dominant strain is the Kent variant

[Nicky91]

https://www.thelocal.de/20210423/ger...orce-saturday/

Germany: emergency brake of new covid restrictions will come into force starting tomorrow, also the curfew from 22:00 - 5:00


Jens Spahn their health minister said in press conference how he knows german people want relaxing of measures, but for time being that is not possible


also the border with austria, czech republic, netherlands, belgium remains closed as and especially the last two are ''High Risk zones''

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Cherie

The situation in India is heart breaking

What I can't understand is how India managed the first wave so well but failed with this one

I think they got complacent when the vaccine was being rolled out?

Yeah I remember they went really hard with their first lockdown implementing it with almost no notice but it did work

Whereas only a month ago they allowed a full crowd over 50,000 to watch India play England at cricket

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by arista

[arista]

Ch4HDnews Live

India: President Modi has finally halted his Election Rallies

They Showed a Massive outside area
with Woodfires burning bodies
as the inside burner is packed with dead bodies,

[arista]

[arista]

SkyNewsHD
Alex Crawford having to have blue gloves on.

It appears to be more than just one Covid-19 Variant

Shocking in India
inside the Hospital they are filming
they have 7 Oxygen Cylinders for around 70 people.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...limit-12285080

[Nicky91]

Netherlands: one of our news shows ''Hart van Nederland'' did a survey for the public with the question

should the relaxing of measures go on, on April 28th?

55% said Yes

38% said No

7% couldn't decide

[arista]

Yes Roger India should be Front page.

[arista]

[Nicky91]

https://www.thelocal.de/20210423/we-...alth-minister/

Germany: ''we won't be able to vaccinate everyone in june'', warns their health minister Spahn

Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn has urged German residents to have realistic expectations about the vaccination roll-out in Germany, saying lifting the priority list doesn't mean all adults will get a jab immediately.

Spahn raised hopes on Thursday when he announced that Covid vaccines would be open to adults from June. At the moment Germany follows a strict priority list on who can get the jab first, mainly based on age, health conditions and their line of work.

However, on Friday during a press conference he urged residents to remain realistic.

Spahn said the plan is to lift the priority list in June, opening vaccine appointments out to all adults – but it might not happen at the beginning of the month.

And he added: “This doesn’t mean that we’ll then be able to vaccinate everyone in June.”

Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, Helge Braun, had also urged people not to have too high expectations. He told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper that there will still be long waiting times for appointments because there won’t be enough vaccine doses.

However, the goal is still for every adult to be offered a Covid vaccine by September 21st.

As of Friday a total of 18.5 million people in Germany – around 22.2 percent – had received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. Around 7.8 percent of the population has been fully inoculated.

Vaccination summit to discuss privileges

On Monday, a meeting between the Chancellor’s Office and the state premiers will take place to discuss the way forward on opening up vaccines to the population in Germany.

It comes after four German states – Bavaria, Berlin, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – removed their priority list for the AstraZeneca vaccine, opening it up to all adults (not just over 60s) as long as the patient has a consultation with a doctor.

Green Party health expert Janosch Dahmen, told the FAZ newspaper that he saw the actions of the states as “another sign of the disintegration of the federal government’s crisis management”.

Other states such as North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony say that they are not going down this route.

Another topic at the summit will be privileges for vaccinated people. According to Spahn, there will probably be no entitlement that allows restaurants to open up for vaccinated people, for example. He also doesn’t think inoculated people will be exempt from curfews.

However, Spahn said he’s not sure what the final decisions will be.

‘Stand together’

Germany this week brought in controversial changes to the Infection Protection Act. The law prescribes for ’emergency brake’ measures, such as curfews and stricter shutdowns, to come into force in districts and cities with high Covid rates.

Spahn urged people to remember why the country needed tougher measures. There are many hospitals in Germany where the workload is very high, especially for staff, he said.

Lars Schaade, vice-president of the Robert Koch Institute, called for people to stick to the restrictions. “These weeks are difficult for all of us, so it is all the more important that we all stand together as a society,” said Schaade.

The number of new infections is rising, especially in the 30-59 age group. This group, like young people, has not yet been vaccinated for the most part.

But even for younger and healthy people, “this virus is not harmless”, said Schaade. “Severe courses can also occur in younger people.”

He added that recent studies show 10 percent of those infected developed long Covid symptoms.

On Friday Germany logged 27,543 coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours, and 265 deaths. The nationwide 7-day incidence increased to 164.

[arista]

[Cherie]

UK sending antivirals and ventilators to India

can anyone watch the horrifying footage and still say Covid is a hoax?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

https://www.thelocal.de/20210423/we-...alth-minister/

Germany: ''we won't be able to vaccinate everyone in june'', warns their health minister Spahn

Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn has urged German residents to have realistic expectations about the vaccination roll-out in Germany, saying lifting the priority list doesn't mean all adults will get a jab immediately.

Spahn raised hopes on Thursday when he announced that Covid vaccines would be open to adults from June. At the moment Germany follows a strict priority list on who can get the jab first, mainly based on age, health conditions and their line of work.

However, on Friday during a press conference he urged residents to remain realistic.

Spahn said the plan is to lift the priority list in June, opening vaccine appointments out to all adults – but it might not happen at the beginning of the month.

And he added: “This doesn’t mean that we’ll then be able to vaccinate everyone in June.”

Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, Helge Braun, had also urged people not to have too high expectations. He told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper that there will still be long waiting times for appointments because there won’t be enough vaccine doses.

However, the goal is still for every adult to be offered a Covid vaccine by September 21st.

As of Friday a total of 18.5 million people in Germany – around 22.2 percent – had received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. Around 7.8 percent of the population has been fully inoculated.

Vaccination summit to discuss privileges

On Monday, a meeting between the Chancellor’s Office and the state premiers will take place to discuss the way forward on opening up vaccines to the population in Germany.

It comes after four German states – Bavaria, Berlin, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – removed their priority list for the AstraZeneca vaccine, opening it up to all adults (not just over 60s) as long as the patient has a consultation with a doctor.

Green Party health expert Janosch Dahmen, told the FAZ newspaper that he saw the actions of the states as “another sign of the disintegration of the federal government’s crisis management”.

Other states such as North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony say that they are not going down this route.

Another topic at the summit will be privileges for vaccinated people. According to Spahn, there will probably be no entitlement that allows restaurants to open up for vaccinated people, for example. He also doesn’t think inoculated people will be exempt from curfews.

However, Spahn said he’s not sure what the final decisions will be.

‘Stand together’

Germany this week brought in controversial changes to the Infection Protection Act. The law prescribes for ’emergency brake’ measures, such as curfews and stricter shutdowns, to come into force in districts and cities with high Covid rates.

Spahn urged people to remember why the country needed tougher measures. There are many hospitals in Germany where the workload is very high, especially for staff, he said.

Lars Schaade, vice-president of the Robert Koch Institute, called for people to stick to the restrictions. “These weeks are difficult for all of us, so it is all the more important that we all stand together as a society,” said Schaade.

The number of new infections is rising, especially in the 30-59 age group. This group, like young people, has not yet been vaccinated for the most part.

But even for younger and healthy people, “this virus is not harmless”, said Schaade. “Severe courses can also occur in younger people.”

He added that recent studies show 10 percent of those infected developed long Covid symptoms.

On Friday Germany logged 27,543 coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours, and 265 deaths. The nationwide 7-day incidence increased to 164.

Like India, Germany did so well in the first wave, we were told testing was the answer, and Germany’s success was due to their and trace systems, what has gone wrong there

[bots]

it's the kent variant that has done all these countries in. We were in partial lockdown and it still ran riot with the infection rate. Vaccination is the only solution to it

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by arista

[bots]

Israel has recorded no new daily Covid-19 deaths for the first time in 10 months, as the country pushes ahead with its speedy vaccination drive.

The country's coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 6,346 on Thursday, health ministry data showed.

The last time Israel reported zero Covid-19 deaths was at the end of June last year, after lockdown measures curbed a first wave of infections.

Israel's outbreak has eased after hitting its peak in January this year.

The Israeli government started to relax lockdown restrictions a month later as vaccinations against Covid-19 were rolled out more widely.

Israel has the highest vaccination rate in the world. On Thursday, the country reached the milestone of five million Covid-19 vaccinations.

[arista]

Well Done Germany
Sent by Air to India
Oxygen making machines.

[Nicky91]

i can explain maybe why it is that bad in India

1) many heavily dense populated areas you got there

2) a new mutation, more or less same amount of more infectious as brazilian variant or kent variant i think


there is no need for panic, just logical thinking and quick taking action


good of UK, Germany sending supplies


if i could give advice to their government, maybe set up some temporary hospitals like UK had with Nightingale too, and maybe also give most treatment to those who got most chance of dying without it, those who got better surviving chances without treatment i'd say let them recover in home isolation (and i think like this for my own nation at the moment too, just to lift pressure of hospitals that would be a good option)

[Nicky91]

Netherlands todays numbers

8.123 new cases (average is still increasing)

2.514 total hospitalisations 99 less than yesterday (273 new hospitalisations)

816 total ICU patients 21 less than yesterday (49 new ICU patients)

22 new deaths

[arista]

Saturday 24/4/21

32 have Died
2,061 have caught Covid-19

Patients in hospital
Latest available
1,781

Patients on ventilation
Latest available
243


127,417 Total UK deaths


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

[bots]

A man has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of assault after allegedly infecting 22 people with Covid.

The 40-year-old is alleged to have continued to go to work and the gym despite having a cough and a temperature of more than 40C (104F).

He is said to have walked around his place of work in Majorca, pulling his mask down, coughing and telling colleagues he was going to infect them.

Five colleagues and three fellow gym goers later tested positive.

Another 14 people - family members of the infected - also came down with Covid, including three one-year-olds.

[Zizu]

Today in London




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[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Today in London




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Doesn’t this happen every week

They need to watch footage of people dying on the street outside hospitals in India