'Faster-spreading' coronavirus variant found in 60 local authority areas, says Hancock

[Docb]

Suggest you look up the Covid select comittee that met this morning and took evidence from various people working on the virus. Then ask yourself whether the hype about the "new variant" is justified.

 

[grovesy]

Suggest you look up the Covid select comittee that met this morning and took evidence from various people working on the virus. Then ask yourself whether the hype about the "new variant" is justified.

I agree I was suprised they were sitting live today, I just happened to channel hop. Very intresting.

 

[Docb]

Glad somebody else saw it. I got the impression that none of the witnesses wanted to endorse the idea that the current upswing in infections was due to the new varient. The data, as yet, did not show that. I was particularly taken by the idea that anybody testing positive is likely to have all the strains present - if you bothered to look.

 

[mikeydt1]

if it isn't bad enough blabbing it out loud leaving the whole country in a mess they then leak about the African one will these people never learn and the damage it is doing to the country doesn't stand looking at.

 

[grovesy]

Japan has apparently quarantined 4 travellers from Brazil who tested positive on arrival and the virus involved is a new mutation not seen before. Expect to hear more about a Brazil variant.

Well the USA think they may have identified a new one that has not been seen before, but need to do more work before they are sure!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Japan has apparently quarantined 4 travellers from Brazil who tested positive on arrival and the virus involved is a new mutation not seen before. Expect to hear more about a Brazil variant.

Well the USA think they may have identified a new one that has not been seen before, but need to do more work before they are sure!

Good grief! all these new variants (with their various different properties) are really putting a dent in my optimism that this year is going to be any different to last in terms of lurching from one restriction to another

 

[grovesy]

Good grief! all these new variants (with their various different properties) are really putting a dent in my optimism that this year is going to be any different to last in terms of lurching from one restriction to another

I was also suprised that the USA have not been doing a lot of Genomic testing , either ! I saw another report the made me pleasantly suprised the South African's have been working around the clock testing their variatant and if the vaccines are effective against it.

 

[Ljc]

From reports I have seen, we have the South African variant here in Kent .
Our hospitals here are only just about coping.

I have no idea when my 95 yr old dad will be vaccinated ,he is poorly and now housebound.

 

[mikeydt1]

found out recent that my remaining uncles are over 80 with one near 90 and they are worried by the isolation having an impact. the over nearly 90 wasn't so well.

the trouble is i am just too far to be of any use to them apart from FB for support.

not heard if the variant is around these parts and no reports that the hospital isn't coping any different. i am up there in a few weeks which does worry me though.

 

[grovesy]

From reports I have seen, we have the South African variant here in Kent .
Our hospitals here are only just about coping.

I have no idea when my 95 yr old dad will be vaccinated ,he is poorly and now housebound.

Vaccination seems to be very patchy still.

 

[Ljc]

Vaccination seems to be very patchy still.

Our Gp practice started doing the vaccs a few weeks ago ,but they had no info re those housebound.

 

[Ljc]

found out recent that my remaining uncles are over 80 with one near 90 and they are worried by the isolation having an impact. the over nearly 90 wasn't so well.

the trouble is i am just too far to be of any use to them apart from FB for support.

not heard if the variant is around these parts and no reports that the hospital isn't coping any different. i am up there in a few weeks which does worry me though.

I know it’s hard isn’t it. I phone one of dads cousins two or three times a week , she is in her 70s Shielded with several health problems but hates being indoors so much if the time

 

[Robin]

Our Gp practice started doing the vaccs a few weeks ago ,but they had no info re those housebound.

Ours has just said the housebound will be done 'later' . I assume this means when they get the Oxford vaccine. At the moment, all the over 85s have to be ferried next Saturday, on possibly icy country roads, to a town 12 miles away which our GP practice is grouped with under the title 'rural West Oxfordshire' to have the Pfizer jab. Then the same with the over 80s possibly the Saturday after.