I was - just backing you up :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
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I was - just backing you up :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
Absolutely nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
I'm sure you've heard about pubs having cases linked to them and nobody even contacting them for names of customers.
Got you. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Lockdown reimposed in Preston from midnight.
871 cases and 98 deaths registered in the UK today.
Is France on the quarantine list?
Numbers are rocketing
More on the laws coming in over the next week;
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Settings where face coverings must be legally worn in Scotland is expanding to include certain indoor public places such as cinemas, galleries, museums and banks, from Saturday (8 August).
Further rules for the hospitality sector, including the introduction of new statutory guidance, have been announced to increase compliance and keep the sector safely open.
While the new guidance won’t come into effect until Friday 14 August, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has emphasised that the hospitality industry should already be doing the right thing, and if not then they should start now.
Hospitality premises should be collecting customer contact details for Test and Protect. Tables should be pre-booked where possible, with no queueing. There should be no background music and TVs should be muted to reduce the need for people to shout or lean in to each other, and no more than three households at a time should be meeting in a group.
From Friday (14 August), it will be mandatory to collect contact details of customers in a range of hospitality and public settings.
Face shields may be used but only if they are worn in addition to a face covering. While exemptions to face coverings will apply, the new settings face coverings must now be worn in will include:
• any premises open to members of the public and used for the retail sale or hire of goods or services. This now includes: shops; takeaway restaurants; estate agents; beauty parlours. This does not extend to hospitality premises such as sit-in cafes and restaurants
• aquariums, indoor zoos or visitor farms, and any other indoor tourist, heritage or cultural site
• banks, building societies and credit unions
• cinemas
• community centres
• crematoriums and funeral directors premises
• libraries and public reading rooms
• museums and galleries
• places of worship
• post offices
• storage and distribution facilities, including collection and drop off points
Not yet but there were hints this morning that they soon will be.Quote:
Originally Posted by BroxburnHibee
This rule should apply even after we get out of this hell!Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Pretty much the same as the Fire Brigade. Hanging around doing nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
Don’t say that, you’re giving the Tories ideas 😳Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
My phone autocorrected that to ideals. Wouldn’t that be something 😂
😄 Don't think they'd like my social democratic ideals, at least not since they've morphed into the BNP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saturday Boy
Sounds very much like it's on the way:Quote:
Originally Posted by BroxburnHibee
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...-list-12044162
Alarming numbers as you say.
I may have missed it but has Sweden gone into a belated lockdown? Their numbers per 100K look pretty impressive over the last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by G B Young
It doesn't look like it. This was an article from last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infecti.../covid19/87812
I was interested, and troubled, by the suggestion above somewhere that we are keeping France off the list because we’re relying on them to help with Brexit. Bad-listed Andorra is between Catalunya and France, for pete’s sake!Quote:
Originally Posted by G B Young
But Scotland doesn’t take the lead? We can if we want. Are we the opposite, scared of standing out against a big EU player, which might not help when we look to get back in?
Pick your conspiracy, but the fact remains the open door to France (a country I love, btw) makes no covid sense.
Top 10 European nations in terms of number of new cases today - deaths in brackets;
1 - Russia - 5241 (119)
2 - Spain - 4507 (3)
3 - France - 2288 (12)
4 - Ukraine - 1453 (33)
5 - Romania - 1378 (50)
6 - Germany - 1105 (2)
7 - UK - 871 (98)
8 - Belgium - 858 (2)
9 - Poland - 809 (13)
10 - Italy - 552 (3)
Wow, I've not really kept up with other countries' numbers but some of those are shocking. Considering how similar Spain and Italy were three months ago the difference is huge. Is there a fundamental reason for the difference do you know?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
To be honest I don't think Italy's going to be too far behind. 552 cases is their highest daily increase for more than 2 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky
Belgium is huge for the size of them too. I think these numbers really show that deaths are not a good measure for current severity of pandemic. UK deaths are presumably still high because of historic cases but these other countries will see deaths rise in the coming weeks. Hopefully to nowhere near previous numbers given that I assume current infections are much more focused on a younger demographic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
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Originally Posted by Rocky
I think Belgium has been doing more testing and probably more accurate results than any other country.
It was spoken about earlier and often made them look like an outlier compared to their neighbours.
What's standing out for me is the vast difference in case numbers above the UK's position in that list and the UK still having the highest death rates per capita.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
I've heard that said about their death count but not sure I've heard it said about their case count?Quote:
Originally Posted by Saturday Boy
I can’t remember where I read it, but it was earlier in the pandemic, several months ago. The whole testing and counting system was thought to be the standard everyone should have been trying to achieve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky
It’s too late to go searching, especially when I’m watching football on YouTube.
Literally nothing. Logs on at the start of her shift and waits for a notification that never arrives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
I here what you're saying but stock piling PPE is very different to paying hundreds of folk for doing nothing. Even if it’s just the 100 folk in her group (which it won’t be), that’s over £200k per month for literally doing nothing. The training consisted of an hours Zoom meeting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky
To be honest, isn't the furlough scheme paying billions to people to literally sit around and do nothing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frazerbob
The Tories have dealt with them pandemic disgracefully and some of the procurement scandals have been jaw dropping but this is pretty low on my concerns about the Governments conduct right now.
Mexico's death toll passes 50,000. Obesity levels (nearly 75% of population) being partly attributed to this and they've banned sales of junk food and fizzy drinks.
Watching rugby on sky sports the now I think it’s from New Zealand, no social distancing, masks, people in stadiums. What a great place that must be to live, footballers aren’t even allowed out after a game here in Scotland
That's not really true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiberniankb