Worried about coronavirus part 10

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Previous thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3836973-To-be-worried-about-coronavirus-part-9

updated data on this page every day at 2pm until further notice.
www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public#number-of-cases

It's not just like flu www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/yes-it-is-worse-than-the-flu-busting-the-coronavirus-myths

Why WHO not declaring a pandemic www.newscientist.com/article/2235342-covid-19-why-wont-the-who-officially-declare-a-coronavirus-pandemic/

Worldometer www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

BNO News bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/

Link to WHO report www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

The Lancet coronavirus hub - latest research and comment www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

JAMA coronavirus research centre jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

What happens if carers of elderly relatives get sick?
Addressing this, is important and working with social care to a solution

What about schools who have closed?
If you do not have a positive case or been advised to by PHE school must stay open.

Claimants won’t face sanctions if self isolating.

Retail/service workers on low pay, would gov set up an insurance scheme for these?
Reviewing an looking at supporting business that may suffer.

#Iran has officially requested assistance from #Russia in the fight against #coronavirus.

@ofwarren Sorry - just interested - why the hashtags?

There are now 24 cases of #Coronavirus in the #Netherlands

From Twitter oak

9 cases of #coronavirus in #Croatia

It's directly taken from twitter. Cut and paste

Oh, so ofwarren is cutting and pasting Twitter,um, tweets? That makes sense. I wondered if there was something I was missing!

@Oakmaiden I was wondering the same thing 😂

#Iran has officially requested assistance from #Russia in the fight against #coronavirus.

Russia: "Simple, just don't tell anyone your numbers"

House of Commons Live

Self isolating counts as illness for SSP and benefit claimants

All info today applies to all areas of the UK

zero hours contracts - what will recompense be?

SSP will be applicable

ofwarren has been keeping us up to date with new cases on this thread and another CV one

I was going to buy handgel and if I see some then I may buy a couple.
BUT I am not in an at risk group, DH isn't and neither are the children.

So whilst I will be careful and follow recommendations I am not going to panic buy hand gel.

I'll leave it for those it may benefit more.

And i have no intentions of getting any masks.

As of 3 March, a total of 13,911 people have been tested in the UK, of which 13,860 were confirmed negative. 51 were confirmed as positive.

My DD works for Home Bargains. They have not been given hand gel they have to buy their own and keep it by the till. The shop hasn't had any in for a while. Fortunately I have been buying hand gel since I started reading about this virus in January.

The world we knew it’s gone now forever.*
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What??

As of 3 March, a total of 13,911 people have been tested in the UK, of which 13,860 were confirmed negative. 51 were confirmed as positive.

So they swabbed 386 people and found 12 positives. That's a pretty good hit rate

And hand gel gives me really dry hands.

Would cracked skin not be an issue?

Yes we love @ofwarren
These threads move incredibly fast and you have been amazing as I can sometimes skim read pages and look for your posts. Thanks for taking the time.

At least that HoC session allowed some proper questions to be asked at some depth. I reckon they have a lot of advice about people's behaviour in a crisis and they are timing the release of information at the rate that most people will swallow it.

I'm beginning to like the weather on the news now. The only bit where there's no need to talk about the virus. And no big storms on their way.

I need to catch up. 11 new cases since yesterday?

Bed capacity will be ramped up. Funding has been given to trusts.

? Treatments and therapy’s online, the Gov will be working with social media companies to stop these fake medicines.

Advice to elderly and movements as more at risk and avoid large groups ?

Gov is advised re science and there are downsides to stopping these events if done too soon.

Guidance for diabetics and vulnerable!?
Additional advice will be out in due course, guided by science.

What about those who don’t get SSP?

Under review and sick pay is robust. (actually that’s rubbish, as I don’t get sick pay on zero hours!)

Now their moaning about toilets and hand sanitizer in the HoC!!!!

32 cases of #coronavirus have been confirmed positive in #Norway- In total.

I am grateful for your updates @ofwarren