Dozens of countries with South African and Brazilian Covid variants left off quarantine ‘red list’

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Dozens of countries with South African and Brazilian Covid variants left off quarantine ‘red list’

Ministers have failed to ban travellers from 35 countries with cases of the dangerous South African and Brazilian variants, it can be revealed.The government ha
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Ministers have failed to ban travellers from 35 countries with cases of the dangerous South African and Brazilian variants, it can be revealed.

The government has repeatedly defended efforts to stop new strains being imported by pointing to the “red list” of countries from which travel to Britain is banned.

However, an analysis reveals that dozens of countries with cases of the mutants — thought to be more infectious and less sensitive to vaccines — are not listed.

The UK Covid-19 response reminds me of me when I was very young & afraid of sharp needles. When I needed a shot, I'd beg my mother to get the doctor to use a blunt one.
 
Nobody has EVER claimed any of the vaccines make us unable to catch the virus as far as I know.

Nobody has told us we can stop wearing masks and socially distancing either.
 
Apparently there was a Tory MP claiming it so this morning on Radio. Despite everyone else saying we have not got the evidence yet, including the Vaccince Minister this morning.
 
mikeydt1 said:
that is not the only problem this below is very worrying -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55967767
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Our federal health minister here in Oz has just said that he's still confident in the AstraZeneca vax after chatting with Matt Hancock.

Ummm ... anyway, on hotel quarantine: hopefully their chatting includes Hancock making sure he's is across what's being done here as the system scrambles to deal with these more transmissible variants. Over the past little while there's been a low level drip-drip-drip of leakages as cleaners etc are being infected with no breach of protocols or close contacts. A lot of scrutiny of ventilation, keeping staff out of airflows from rooms, testing staff every day including their days off, making sure they're not working multiple jobs - etc etc, ptotocols being updated constantly.

(Hancock also mentioned the other day that he's been chatting with our fed health minister about HQ. One problem with that is that our guy is just some politician and in no way the person in charge of planning or execution. From the start HQ has been driven by the states' public health authorities, with this guy & other fed politicians pretty much bystanders at best.)

It's a complex public health, execution and logistics problem, not something you want to outsource ....
 
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