Can't see how they can possibly allow the AFCON to go ahead... and yet they seem to be insisting it will.....
No idea how accurate this is- covid tests are not detecting all cases of omicron variant this claims While lateral flow tests have become key tools in the fight against Covid, Dr Angelique Coetzee, who is head of the South African Medical Association, believes rapid response tests are not always showing accurate results. https://www.joe.co.uk/news/why-you-...KrkF3Ud4BiuHFReVmInpppdG39vB1QhvQq5TXaPn3DmJI
http://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...osure-of-nightclubs-from-27-december-12497648COVID-19: Wales to introduce new coronavirus restrictions with social distancing and closure of nightclubs from 27 December
Someone at Sky has a cracking sense of humour. From that link... Wales will introduce new social distancing restrictions and close nightclubs from 27 December please log in to view this image
Just watching question time The panel aren’t wearing masks The audience are but whenever one asks a question they can take their masks off How fuxking pointless is that
"Had he been vaccinated, he would probably still be here." The stepson of the UK's 'first Omicron victim' has told LBC he was fit and healthy but refused to have a coronavirus vaccine.
For the family and the medical staff who looked after him, it must be an utterly heartbreaking and frustrating situation to deal with. Plus, all the time the medical staff are treating the unvaccinated, other sick people can't get a look-in.
Omicron surge likely to make data on Covid deaths very unreliable https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/me...e-here-s-why/ar-AART1KJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
He was already in hospital for 2 days with something else before he even tested positive for covid...for what ever reason they are refusing to disclose what he was originally in for.
A woman has gone viral on social media after sharing her aunt's amusing, yet slightly awkward, blunder in response to a picture of a positive lateral flow test result. please log in to view this image https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-stitches-over-aunts-mistake-25716783
It sounds like he was fairly old, but from what this fella says, it doesn't sound like he was already in hospital...
There was a nurse interviewed on the news last night, they started asking her about this and she said it was deeply upsetting that they had patients dying unnecessarily and they had to stop the interview as she started crying.
What's the sickness/absence rate in everyone's place of work like? I work from home, and so do my team, so we're not typical. Just trying to work out - if 88k people got positive results yesterday, then that's probably 80k people out of the workforce for 10 days. Probably 100k today for another 10 days, 115k tomorrow etc etc. Its probably very fortunate timing because so many people take time off between Christmas and New Year anyway, so maybe the impact won't be as bad as it could be, but a bit worrying for essential services.
I suspect there's quite a lot of people with positive tests that aren't included in these results. I know several people who've had a positive lateral flow and have just notified the people they've had contact with and isolated themselves, rather than going for a PCR. Based on the news coming out of Denmark today, I think it's likely that around 5% of the cases in the UK now are Omicron.
Where my lad works they have to have regular lateral flow tests. Last week 3 tested positive. They the had PCR tests which all came back negative. Granddaughter is off school as her best mate has covid. The girl had it earlier this year. So much for immunity. My son's better half is off work as she took them somewhere in the car so had also been in close contact. Son and grandson don't have to isolate because although in the same house as two people who had been in close contact with the infected person they weren't in close contact with her. Funny carry on.
