16 now according to today's news!!
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This makes two incidents that reflect badly on Wales, the other being the plonkers who organised the "rave" in the Dulais valley. Hopefully the £10K fines will deter similar behaviour.
"Portugal return to quarantine list would cause chaos and hardship" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53980191)
Sorry, but this is non-essential travel. Anyone travelling abroad under current circumstances knows that guidelines can (and do) change at any moment, so be ready to accept the risk and stop moaning.
not sure the plane incident reflects badly on Wales, afterall planes are taking off all over the world
If airlines put planes on, people will use them, even now, people are told that its " as safe as they can make it " with masks and spraying the plane before they board, people are making the call on if the risk is acceptable
All these new cases around Europe, Asia, USA, India a few here but none reporting the high death toll like before. Is the virus strain getting weaker like some have alluded to? Are we just better at treating it or is it hitting a different demographic now who just dont get hospitalised? Be nice to know, Particularly for those still sort of shielding, are people still doing it?
https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject...rom%20%251%24s
Scotland puts 14 day quarantine on travellers from Greece.
It was suggested that the virus is beinga. less agressive because it doesn't want it's host to die because then it will die itself, and b. maybe following on from that it seems to be infecting a younger age group who don't have such severe reaction to it.
I commented some time ago about the death rate nor really rising, I just hope that scientists and politicians do not start to be less aggressive in dealing with it because it is apparently less dangerous.
Big increase in people going for tests in S Wales today but no one seems to know if there is a specific reason.
I wonder if it's teachers getting tested before they go back into the classroom?
Another Zante to Cardiff flight asked to isolate.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...olate-18863129
It's more like 10 per day actually. Statistics don't mean a damn thing if you are the one in 7 million who dies of COVID! We had a close friend who died 3 years ago from CJD; she had inherited a faulty gene and it was said that this was a 1 in a million chance.
Another shambles with our 'world beating' test and trace system!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...of-covid-cases
But it doesn't matter how good or bad a system is, they cannot force people to use it and comply. Look at Maesteg.
They could have routine and comprehensive testing at airports, even if only for flights from countries on the quarantine list. Other countries do that. There is a cost to it, and it needs organisation (are you listening Dido?), but it would mean only people with positive tests have to quarantine. The economic and social benefits of that would dwarf the costs. The government's arguments against that approach are pathetic.
Temporary walk in appointments to be set up in Caerphilly.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...cases-18877718
FFS people reluctant to give contact details.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...ondda-18875128
Almost up to 2k new cases a day now - 1,940 today despite there being less tests done in the last week.
Nearly 3000 new cases.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54050342
There was a paper just published that tended to suggest that in places like Blackburn/Manchester there was no spike in cases, but in fact the rate had never declined. The drop in national numbers had just masked the fact that these areas had not benefited at all from the lock down.
Of course these are all areas of dense low income populations and multi age families living together. So it accentuates the need for a different way of dealing with the problem
I think if my maths are correct, that this is the first time when there were proportionately more cases in Wales than England
How many cases were there in Wales and any idea where most of them were?
If the quotes in this article are correct, testing in our "world beating" system which was supposed to have been sorted out in September is a shambles;-
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rol-cases-soar
These rises have got to be a lot to do with the amount of testing though surely? Lots of workplaces are conducting private testing, I'm getting tested every week myself and my industry is testing thousands every week, makes sense that cases are going up
Im sure its partly to testing but its almost certainly becoming more widespread as well.
I don't know to be honest, I was assuming any positives that turn up in my industry (like Robert Pattison testing positive on Batman the other day) would be counted as part of the official numbers of cases, which might account for some of the uptick when you factor in all the other industries doing private testing as well
Rhondda Mobile Testing Centre to open.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...covid-18889614
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...edern-18890455
Latest school today in Cardiff. The figures will just go up and up this week I fear.
What a headache this all is.
Can’t see us being able to watch any live football this season at all at this rate.