Coronavirus (COVID-19) General Chat

[Shelby]

The UK is "now seeing a second wave" of Covid-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, adding "it's been inevitable we'd see it in this country".

Mr Johnson also said he did not "want to go into bigger lockdown measures", but that tighter social distancing restrictions may be necessary.

It comes as new rules were confirmed for Lancashire, Merseyside, parts of the Midlands and West Yorkshire.

On Friday, the UK recorded a further 4,322 confirmed cases of coronavirus.

"Clearly when you look at what is happening, you've got wonder whether we need to go further than the rule of six that we brought in," the PM said during a trip to Oxford.

He added that "the British people have done an amazing job - they've brought that peak down by discipline" but that "people find it difficult to
keep this up, it's difficult to maintain that discipline for a long time".

Starkest warning yet. More restrictions are being put in place not only on England but in Scotland and Wales too and it is not just towns but whole regions of the country

 

[Bandit]

Most of Spain, parts of France and Belgium seem to be the worst hit areas in Europe.

Parts of England and Scotland aren't far behind. Big test here now with the universities returning and overseas students arriving.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Starkest warning yet. More restrictions are being put in place not only on England but in Scotland and Wales too and it is not just towns but whole regions of the country

It will be no mixing with other households, no non-essential travel and curbs on pubs and restaurants, in other words, a national blanket roll out of local measures (at worst hopefully). Very little option without extending furlough.

I see the Nightingale hospitals have been put on 48hr notice.

 

[Mouth]

Our local Morrisons have just posted tonight that the queuing outside system, one-way system etc will be back in place as of tomorrow. They said in the post that anywhere that has local restrictions will find their Morrisons doing the same.

 

[Son Of Jack]

What I can see happening:

- 5 mile travel restriction for leisure
- No households mixing at homes inside or out or hospitality
- Hospitality becomes take away only
- Non-essential businesses will remain open with social distancing
- Football will continue behind closed doors
- Schools will remain open for as long as possible.

 

[Jess]

350 new cases in Scotland in the last 24 hours. The highest single-day increase since May.

I can see something like this being announced tomorrow from ScotGov.

3-week restriction on household visits across Scotland, with a 10pm curfew on hospitality.
Fines starting from £1000 for failure to self-isolate, rising up to £10,000 for repeat offenders.
Greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire - hospitality to close from 7pm.

I can also see a potential statement about schools moving to a blended model if it doesn't improve by November.

 

[Deleted member 63]

THe gathering restrictions originally put on the most heavily affected parts of Ontario (the cities of Toronto and Ottawa and the Regional Municipality of Peel) are now extended to the whole province. Maximum 10 people indoors, 25 outdoors. However, businesses that are staffed (e.g. bars, restaurants) are exempted, presumably on the assumption that staff can make sure proper measures are taken.

We hit over 400 new cases for two days in a row for the first time since June, back into the 300s today. Still not at "second wave" levels, but if it keeps rising...yeah.

 

[Janey]

Shelves were empty yesterday.

Panic buying mode has kicked in again as people fear another lockdown is imminent.

 

[David76]

Shelves were empty yesterday.

Panic buying mode has kicked in again as people fear another lockdown is imminent.

Shelves bare here too over the weekend.

Are the government making an announcement today?

Edit: Ah there was a briefing by Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance. I'm not really sure what the point of that briefing was. It could have been summarised in key points in five minutes.

- you need to be stricter on social meetings
- this isn't close to going away
- small amount of vaccines "may" be available by the end of the year
- restrictions highly likely till Q2 next year and probably some of some sort till Summer

All the while ignoring the complete failure of testing and tracing.

 

[Donna]

That announcement/conference was weird, mentioning "doubling" and "exponential rise" but showing graphs that don't show that. Have to assume that's just them laying the groundwork for whatever new restrictions come into play the next few days.