Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[strichener]

16 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

I see calls on BBC news for the UK to pause it's vaccination process and donate all stocks to India.....

They've totally fucked it so far on the vaccination front.  India Vaccines

[Dons_1988]

1 minute ago, NorthernLights said:

UK population of 66 million v India population of 1.36 billion. Very much feels like any of our vaccination supplies we give them would be like pissing on a bonfire at best.

Indeed, if we have enough surplus to make a dent in India's crisis then that is quite something.

[Elixir]

15 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

St Petersburg get 3 Dublin games and Wembley the other. Munich agreed to 25% capacity at the last minute and Bilbao games moved to Sevilla so Bilbao must have been a local govt decision rather than national.

Republic of Mintreland

[Left Back]

31 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

I see calls on BBC news for the UK to pause it's vaccination process and donate all stocks to India.....

got a link to this?  must have missed this story.

why just us?  why not the EU, the US and other countries with way more vaccines than we have?

ETA I see why now.  Only their own Covaxin, AZ and sputnik have been approved for use.

Edited April 23, 2021 by Left Back

[Left Back]

21 minutes ago, strichener said:

They've totally fucked it so far on the vaccination front.  India Vaccines

suspect we can kiss goodbye to that extra 5 million doses we were expecting from SII.  Can't see that coming any time soon.

[Michael W]

13 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

I see calls on BBC news for the UK to pause it's vaccination process and donate all stocks to India.....

This will probably impact upon the UK's vaccination programme given we are supplied from India. 

[realmadrid]

27 minutes ago, Left Back said:

got a link to this?  must have missed this story.

why just us?  why not the EU, the US and other countries with way more vaccines than we have?

ETA I see why now.  Only their own Covaxin, AZ and sputnik have been approved for use.

I guess it could be as a connection to the past and UK rule, India being part of the commonwealth and the very large Indian population in parts of England. 

Are the 5 million doses due from India complete or just part of the process, either way I cannot see the Indian government allowing a shipment at this time.

[Alert Mongoose]

You do wonder if Ireland would have made the same decision if they had qualified for the finals. I suspect not.

[realmadrid]

1 minute ago, Alert Mongoose said:

You do wonder if Ireland would have made the same decision if they had qualified for the finals. I suspect not.

If Ireland had appointed a manager and not Stephen Kenny they might have qualified and yes they would be hosting

If we have not won the shoot out in Belgrade it would have been our games getting moved.

[superbigal]

23 hours ago, superbigal said:

 

Daily Cases Update:  A real mixed bag again today as we have a  small decrease in overall numbers from 1525 to 1507 & Cases per 100K down from 27.9 to 27.6 Again some more interesting council shifts which mostly follow on from yesterday.

North Lanarkshire definitely  doing it's best to stay in level 4 !  Ayrshire in general (albeit from low numbers) is very much on the increase again. Same applies to Dunbartonshire.  All parts of Renfrewshire have fallen of the side of a cliff to below the Scottish average. Cigars at the ready.  Dundee again & the Highlands are the days other highlights.

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 14th April to 20th April  were 1525 now 1507 down 1.18%. Positivity was 1.4% now 1.4%.   Cases per 100k were 27.9 now 27.6

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  25.2 to 24.3 down 3.57%, England 24.8 to 23.8 down 4.03%,  Wales  15.4 to 14.9 down 3.25%, Northern Ireland 42.1 to 41.9 down 0.48% 

European (Above 2 Million Population) : Sweden 415 to 413, Croatia 372 to 373, France 371 to 341, Netherlands 307, Hungary 394 to 286, Serbia 314 to 284, Poland 372 to 283  all destinations over 250 cases per 100K

Special mention for Turkey as a popular destination at 505, Cyprus even worse at 543 !!

Council progress in last 24 Hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

Under 75 could do better club

Clackmannanshire  69.8 to 64.0  Welcome drop hope it's sustained.

North Lanarkshire  58.3 to 61.2  Still on the rise. Surely lockdown to continue.

Glasgow City 48.6 to 48.6   Yoker North still Scotland's number 1 no go area.

East Ayrshire 41.0 to 48.4  Continues it's surge up the charts from Cigar land.

Moray  33.4 to 40.7   Teuchters in Elgin. 

South Lanarkshire 44.3 to 39.3 Decent drop of over 11% unlike it's neighbour

Perth & Kinross   31.6 to 33.6

East Dunbartonshire 30.4 to 32.2

North Ayrshire   26.7 to 28.9  Another part of Ayrshire on rise.  Back above average.    

Under Scottish Average club 27.6

South Ayrshire 18.6 to 27.5    Trebled in 72 hours to complete all of Ayrshire rising quickly.

East Renfrewshire  33.5 to 27.2  Brilliant down over 18% following 15% yesterday. Now under average.

City Of Edinburgh   22.3 to 26.1   Pretty poor day climbing the charts

Falkirk  26.7 to 24.9

Aberdeen City 25.8 to 23.6

 Fife   23.0 to 23.3  

Renfrewshire  26.8 to 22.3 Outstanding another 16.79% drop.

West Dunbartonshire  15.7 to 21.4  Cigars back in the box

West Lothian   27.3 to 20.8 Falling of the side of a cliff down another 23.81%

Dundee City   23.4 to 20.1  Brilliant another near 15% drop 2nd day in a row.

The   Club Sub 20.0

Aberdeenshire 17.2 to 17.2

Inverclyde  16.7 to 16.7

Angus 10.3 to 11.2

Highlands   14.0 to 10.6  Down near 25% amazing

Stirling   10.6 to 10.6

East Lothian   2.8  to 6.5   Some family in the "Pinkie Braes"    

Argyll & Bute  4.7 to 4.7

Dumfries & Galloway  2.0 to 3.4  

Midlothian   4.3 to 3.2 

Scottish  Borders  1.7 to 0.9    1 Case from Covid Free

Shetland Islands  0.0 to 0.0  

Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0

Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0  

[TheScarf]

No drop from 93 in hospital I believe?  Or have they not updated the figures today yet?

[Billy Jean King]

got a link to this?  must have missed this story.
why just us?  why not the EU, the US and other countries with way more vaccines than we have?
ETA I see why now.  Only their own Covaxin, AZ and sputnik have been approved for use.

I was listening to it on the lunchtime news while working, not even sure who it was speaking. Just seemed like a mental stance to adopt.

[Billy Jean King]

14% of NHS Ayrshire and Arran have not taken the offer of the vaccine. Only 3 people didn't take it on medical grounds.

Makes you wonder at overall uptake figures when individual sectors seem to have relatively high resistance.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/hundreds-nhs-ayrshire-staff-not-23956358?fbclid=IwAR157KoiXl9TKCw4zR78Qjk0OXxWkSlOg2StmN2QgFad0o3CkBNZBfzs3pY

[ahemps]

36 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said:

You do wonder if Ireland would have made the same decision if they had qualified for the finals. I suspect not.

Certainly makes it easier. If we weren't there and it was 25% capacity with no fan zone, masks, no singing etc. would you be fussed if we gave up our games? Will the host venue/FA even make money from it now?

Hopefully because we are involved there is more effort to make it the best event it possibly can be in the circumstances which might not be the case if the host isn't involved. 

[strichener]

Just now, Billy Jean King said:

14% of NHS Ayrshire and Arran have not taken the offer of the vaccine. Only 3 people didn't take it on medical grounds.

Makes you wonder at overall uptake figures when individual sectors seem to have relatively high resistance.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/hundreds-nhs-ayrshire-staff-not-23956358?fbclid=IwAR157KoiXl9TKCw4zR78Qjk0OXxWkSlOg2StmN2QgFad0o3CkBNZBfzs3pY

Take their £500 back off them, inconsiderate wanks!

[craigkillie]

14% of NHS Ayrshire and Arran have not taken the offer of the vaccine. Only 3 people didn't take it on medical grounds.

Makes you wonder at overall uptake figures when individual sectors seem to have relatively high resistance.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/hundreds-nhs-ayrshire-staff-not-23956358?fbclid=IwAR157KoiXl9TKCw4zR78Qjk0OXxWkSlOg2StmN2QgFad0o3CkBNZBfzs3pY

Does this include admin staff who might feel they were queue-jumping if they took it despite never actually seeing patients?

[GiGi]

52 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

No drop from 93 in hospital I believe?  Or have they not updated the figures today yet?

Scottish numbers: 23 April 2021

Summary

• 255 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 19,771 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
  • 1.5% of these were positive
• 1 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 12 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 93 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19

Can only assume no change. Other than another death reported it is really positive viewing.

[Bairnardo]

You have to imagine that even with the low numbers last summer, we are probably running at a lower prevalence now than we were then with the greater testing numbers, vast swathes of the population now pretty much unavailable for infection.

[Michael W]

Trial event with no social distancing postponed due to anti-vaxxer cranks targeting it. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-56860271

What on earth do these people want, exactly? No proof of vaccination had to be shown for entry. Lunatics getting in the way of reopening and nothing else. 

It's always Liverpool as well that these brain donors seem to come from. 

[Ron Aldo]

1 hour ago, superbigal said:

Daily Cases Update:  A real mixed bag again today as we have a  small decrease in overall numbers from 1525 to 1507 & Cases per 100K down from 27.9 to 27.6 Again some more interesting council shifts which mostly follow on from yesterday.

North Lanarkshire definitely  doing it's best to stay in level 4 !  Ayrshire in general (albeit from low numbers) is very much on the increase again. Same applies to Dunbartonshire.  All parts of Renfrewshire have fallen of the side of a cliff to below the Scottish average. Cigars at the ready.  Dundee again & the Highlands are the days other highlights.

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 14th April to 20th April  were 1525 now 1507 down 1.18%. Positivity was 1.4% now 1.4%.   Cases per 100k were 27.9 now 27.6

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  25.2 to 24.3 down 3.57%, England 24.8 to 23.8 down 4.03%,  Wales  15.4 to 14.9 down 3.25%, Northern Ireland 42.1 to 41.9 down 0.48% 

European (Above 2 Million Population) : Sweden 415 to 413, Croatia 372 to 373, France 371 to 341, Netherlands 307, Hungary 394 to 286, Serbia 314 to 284, Poland 372 to 283  all destinations over 250 cases per 100K

Special mention for Turkey as a popular destination at 505, Cyprus even worse at 543 !!

Council progress in last 24 Hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

Under 75 could do better club

Clackmannanshire  69.8 to 64.0  Welcome drop hope it's sustained.

North Lanarkshire  58.3 to 61.2  Still on the rise. Surely lockdown to continue.

Glasgow City 48.6 to 48.6   Yoker North still Scotland's number 1 no go area.

East Ayrshire 41.0 to 48.4  Continues it's surge up the charts from Cigar land.

Moray  33.4 to 40.7   Teuchters in Elgin. 

South Lanarkshire 44.3 to 39.3 Decent drop of over 11% unlike it's neighbour

Perth & Kinross   31.6 to 33.6

East Dunbartonshire 30.4 to 32.2

North Ayrshire   26.7 to 28.9  Another part of Ayrshire on rise.  Back above average.    

Under Scottish Average club 27.6

South Ayrshire 18.6 to 27.5    Trebled in 72 hours to complete all of Ayrshire rising quickly.

East Renfrewshire  33.5 to 27.2  Brilliant down over 18% following 15% yesterday. Now under average.

City Of Edinburgh   22.3 to 26.1   Pretty poor day climbing the charts

Falkirk  26.7 to 24.9

Aberdeen City 25.8 to 23.6

 Fife   23.0 to 23.3  

Renfrewshire  26.8 to 22.3 Outstanding another 16.79% drop.

West Dunbartonshire  15.7 to 21.4  Cigars back in the box

West Lothian   27.3 to 20.8 Falling of the side of a cliff down another 23.81%

Dundee City   23.4 to 20.1  Brilliant another near 15% drop 2nd day in a row.

The   Club Sub 20.0

Aberdeenshire 17.2 to 17.2

Inverclyde  16.7 to 16.7

Angus 10.3 to 11.2

Highlands   14.0 to 10.6  Down near 25% amazing

Stirling   10.6 to 10.6

East Lothian   2.8  to 6.5   Some family in the "Pinkie Braes"    

Argyll & Bute  4.7 to 4.7

Dumfries & Galloway  2.0 to 3.4  

Midlothian   4.3 to 3.2 

Scottish  Borders  1.7 to 0.9    1 Case from Covid Free

Shetland Islands  0.0 to 0.0  

Western Isles   0.0 to 0.0

Orkney Island  0.0 to 0.0  

"North Lanarkshire  58.3 to 61.2  Still on the rise. Surely lockdown to continue."