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England:-

England has removed 5,377 deaths from its time series.

On 17 July, the Secretary of State asked Public Health England (PHE) to urgently review the way daily death statistics are currently reported.

A review into the method used to calculate these figures considered a range of scientific evidence to identify the best time limit to apply between date of test and date of death.

The new daily measure provides a UK-wide count of deaths under a consistent methodology for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales that has been endorsed by an external review.

The measure will be based on a 28-day limit between the date of a positive lab-confirmed test and date of death. Deaths that occur more than 28 days after a positive test will not be included in the headline count.
 
South Korea:
South Korea will ban large public gatherings and shut down churches and nightspots in the Seoul metropolitan area amid an alarming surge in infections that health officials describe as the country’s biggest crisis since the emergence of Covid-19...
South Korea reported 246 new cases on today, mostly from the capital area, pushing its total for the last five days to 959.
The measures, which will take effect on Wednesday in Seoul, the nearby Gyeonggi province and the city of Incheon, prohibit gatherings of more than 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors. Nightclubs, karaoke rooms, buffet restaurants, computer gaming cafes and other “high-risk” venues will be shut and churches will only be allowed to provide online services...
Churches have emerged as major clusters of infections, with many of them failing to require the wearing of masks and allowing worshippers to sing in choirs or eat together...
Kwon Jun-wook, director of South Korea’s National Health Institute, said health workers have so far found 457 cases linked to a huge Seoul church led by a critic of South Korean president Moon Jae-in, which has become the main focus of disease control efforts. There is concern that the outbreak could worsen after thousands of protesters, including members of the Sarang Jeil Church and its pastor Jun Kwang-hun, marched in Seoul on Saturday despite official pleas to stay home. Mr Jun, who was unmasked and shared a microphone with several other protest leaders on a stage during Saturday’s protest, tested positive yesterday and is now receiving treatment at a Seoul hospital...
Police are pursuing some 800 church members who have been out of contact.

 
South Korea:
South Korea is closing schools and switching back to remote learning in the greater capital area as the country reported triple-digit daily increase in coronavirus cases for the 12th straight day, the Associated Press reported. Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae said Tuesday that at least 193 students and teachers were found infected with the virus over the past two weeks in the Seoul metropolitan region, where a viral surge has threatened to erase the country's hard-won epidemiological gains. Yoo said most children at kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools will receive online classes at least until September 11. High school seniors will continue to go to school so their studies are not disrupted ahead of the crucial national college exams... South Korea has since Sunday banned large gatherings, shut down nightspots and churches and removed fans from professional sports nationwide. Officials say the country could be forced to elevate social distancing restrictions if the virus doesn't slow later this week.
 
France:
Official figures released today showed more than 5,400 confirmed new cases in just 24 hours, with admissions to hospital and intensive care units on the rise.
More than 800 coronavirus patients are being admitted to hospital every week on average, up from 500 six weeks ago, the prime minister said.
 
Hungary:
Hungary will close its borders to foreigners from 1 September to curb a rise in coronavirus infections and Hungarians returning from abroad will have to go into quarantine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's cabinet chief said today. Gergely Gulyas said Hungarian citizens could leave the 14-day quarantine only if they provided two negative Covid tests. Exceptions for the ban on entry for foreigners would apply to military convoys and for humanitarian transit, as well as business or diplomatic travel... Hungary recorded 132 new infections today, the highest daily number since the peak of the pandemic. Hungary has had a total of 5,511 coronavirus cases and 614 deaths.
 
New Zealand:
Schools in Auckland have reopened today as New Zealand’s largest city emerged from lockdown, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expressing confidence a second-wave outbreak of coronavirus was under control.
While Aucklanders were allowed out of their homes, the government limited non-school social gatherings in the city to 10 people and made masks compulsory on public transport nationwide.
The Auckland lockdown began on 12 August after four cases were detected in the city of 1.5 million, ending 102 days free of community transmission when it appeared New Zealand had beaten the virus.
The cluster of infections has since grown to 141, with four new cases of community transmission reported today, making it the largest recorded in New Zealand.
The origin of the outbreak has not been found and Ardern said it was “inevitable” there would be more cases linked to the cluster. But even though it continues to grow, Ardern said it was safe to lift the lockdown.

 
Spain:
Spain registered over 23,000 new Covid-19 cases since Friday, health emergency chief Fernando Simon told a news conference yesterday, bringing the total to 462,858. Of the 1,656 hospitalisations from the disease during the last seven days, 420, or 25%, were in Madrid, according to health ministry figures. The region accounted for nearly half of the 141 deaths in the last seven days.

 

even though the russian vacine was fast tracked and didn't complete the usual vaccine proofing stages it has still been deemed safe and produced 2 forms of immune response according to the lancet medical journal. This is good news it also means that a successful vaccine by western pharma cooperatives is probably not far away either. I think the russians have upped the ante and there is big pressure now to get a vaccine out as soon as possible because someone else is going to do it anyway.
 
UK:
Social gatherings of more than six people
are to be made illegal according to the Telegrapgh. Boris Johnson will make the announcement today after a sudden surge in coronavirus cases prompted fears of a second wave. It is the first time the Prime Minister has reimposed a national lockdown measure since restrictions were eased, reflecting growing alarm at the rise in infections and daily deaths. At a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson will say: "We need to act now to stop the virus spreading." From Monday, anyone breaking the six-person rule potentially faces a £100 spot fine. The limit of six people from up to six households will apply to adults and children indoors and out - in homes, gardens, parks and venues such as pubs and restaurants. The "two-household" rule, which allowed up to 30 people from two different homes to meet, is scrapped. It makes family and social gatherings of more than six illegal - but there are some exceptions.
 
France going into similar level of restrictions to Ireland.

Bars, restaurants and non-essential businesses will be forced to close, but unlike during the two-month lockdown imposed last spring, students will continue to go to school.

 
England going into lockdown also.

A SECOND LOCKDOWN has been announced in England with all non-essential activity to cease from Thursday.
Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will be required to shut until 2 December under tough new measures revealed by the government today.
There will also be a nationwide ban on household visits. Exercise is allowed on a one-to-one basis with one person from one other household.
As in Ireland, schools and third-level institutes will remain open. Construction work, manufacturing and the courts service will also continue.
People will be asked to stay at home except for essential work, education and food shopping.
Hairdressers, leisure centres and entertainment venues will also close next week.


 
Denmark, the world's biggest producer of mink fur, is to cull all of the country's minks after a mutated version of the new coronavirus was detected at mink farms and had spread to people. The mutation "could pose a risk that future (coronavirus) vaccines won't work the way they should," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told a press conference. "It is necessary to cull all the minks."
Denmark's police chief Thorkild Fogde said they would start the culling as "soon as possible," but conceded that with 15 million to 17 million minks spread over 1,080 farms it was "a very large undertaking".
The novel coronavirus has been detected at 207 mink farms, including some cases with a mutated version that has been confirmed to spread back to humans. Health authorities have also concluded that the mutated virus has "is not inhibited by antibodies to the same degree as the normal virus".

 
I got my knuckles rapped for daring to post a question on this thread and told to post on "the other thread". What is the title of "the other thread" as I cannot find it anywhere?
 
I got my knuckles rapped for daring to post a question on this thread and told to post on "the other thread". What is the title of "the other thread" as I cannot find it anywhere?

If it's related to Ireland - it's the first thread on the page
 
I got my knuckles rapped for daring to post a question on this thread and told to post on "the other thread". What is the title of "the other thread" as I cannot find it anywhere?

Really? I don't see any warning issued? You had a post deleted from the Irish news thread, and you were politely reminded that the news threads are for news updates only. Discussions on any of the topics brought up in those threads should be started elsewhere, keeping the news threads dedicated to news updates makes them far easier to consume. Allowing lots of side conversations would quickly render them close to useless.

You are welcome to start a thread on the question you asked, a thread dedicated to such a question allows for a better and focused discussion.
 
SIX-WEEK lockdown starting on St Stephen’s Day has been agreed by the Northern Ireland Executive, it is understood.
Measures will include the closing of all non-essential retail as well as close contact services, while the hospitality sector will be confined to takeaway services only.

Health chiefs have cited low compliance with the regulations and guidance as a reason infections, hospital admissions and death rates remain relatively high.
Hospitals across the region are running over capacity.
On Tuesday, queues of ambulances were witnessed at accident and emergency departments (EDs) across Northern Ireland as patients were treated in car parks due to a lack of capacity inside the hospitals.

 
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that London and the south-east of England are to be placed into a new higher tier of Covid-19 restrictions because of the spread of a more infectious variant of the virus. The move comes after scientists on the British government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NervTag) concluded that the mutant strain identified by Public Health England - known as VUI2020/01 - was spreading more quickly.
"It may be up to 70% more transmissible than the old variant, the original version of the disease," Mr Johnson told a news conference this afternoon.
"This is early data and is subject to review but it is the best that we have at the moment and we have to act on information as we have it because this is now spreading very fast," said Mr Johnson.
However, Mr Johnson said there is no reason to believe the new strain is more dangerous or is resistant to vaccines.

 
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