Delhi - Hong Kong 33% of the flight tested positive during it after quarantine.

[PrincessNutNuts]

Do we know this story?

4th April.

49 passengers on a single flight from New Delhi to Hong Kong tested positive for Covid-.

They suspended flights from India after this.

This tweet is from the 19th April

https://twitter.com/tripperhead/status/1384094063180214273?s=21

It's 52 now apparently.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/14770291/passengers-flight-delhi-hong-kong-all-test-positive-covid/amp/

Things that jumped out at me

1. Some of them are children.

1. Hong Kong quarantine is 21 days. U.K. is 10. How many cases does our quarantine miss?

This is quite eye opening
It’s obviously why our cases are snowballing isn’t it

I saw this a while ago.
Sobering.

Hong Kong has quite strict rules for entering. (Slightly less strict than NZ and Australia, but a lot stricter than us). I believe all flights from an airline is suspended automatically if you bring in one positive case. Also, the equivalent of red list countries are not allowed to enter even into quarantine. You have to be quarantine in a third country first.

Helped by the fact that 110 flights have landed in the U.K. from India since India was finally on the red list, three weeks after Bangladesh and Pakistan.

https://amp.lbc.co.uk/news/revealed-over-100-direct-flights-from-india-landed-in-uk-since-country-was-place/?twitterrimpression=true

Wish our country had had the same rules.

@CobraKaiRocks Even Dominic Cummings say so www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-borders-b1849010.html

The original version had a typical incubation period of 5-6 days, range 2-14, which was why SI was first set at 14 days, reduced to 10 to improve compliance (with some risk, but most cases would have shown up by 10)

If this variant can have a longer incubation period, then our SI might be inadequate

That might be a factor in why officials and politicians sometimes sound concerned. That plus the rate it's rising.

Even if the rates of death and hospitalisation are low (vaccines preventing serious illness, the young tending not to get it seriously anyhow) it could make a lot of people unwell in a short time, which wouid in itself be highly disruptive (lots of people off sick for a fortnight)

It’s actually ridiculous

Presumably in uk and hk people are quaranting in household groups so say a 4 travelling together you would expect the last person to exceed 10d. If 2 in a family took 10d to get it then thats 20.

What happens here in the quarantine hotels? Because really the isolation should restart at 10d for any other family members in with a positive....

I could cry.

This is old news- rehashed

Are you under medical supervision for your anxiety?

Yes - this was news the day Boris announced that India would go on the red list the following Friday! I think Heathrow alone had 16 flights scheduled in the interval between.

It's believed that the number of infected people coming here in the final week is well into the thousands....

Oddly though, this is may be good news too, because one line of thinking now suggests that the surge in cases is not down to the variant's infectiousness, but that they're largely imported... It's just another hypothesis though so may be wrong.

What it CERTAINLY is, is irresponsible governing - in fact after a good vaccine rollout, and careful sensible management of the last lockdown, the government has once again reverted to norm - i.e. incompetence.

@lostlife

Your patronising comments are not very helpful.

@CobraKaiRocks

This is quite eye opening It’s obviously why our cases are snowballing isn’t it

They aren't though.

@IcedPurple. News reports today that areas of England have quadrupled cases in 48 hours

Up here in Scotland our positive case numbers jumped up from yesterday to today too.

I’m only going by what I read and hear in the media

I’m just hoping it’s not going to impact reopening of things and being able to go on trips in my own country and visit relatives etc.

I’m not running around in circles screaming and tearing my hair out , I’m just quietly watching the news and hoping that although the figures are jumping up that this doesn’t tally with increased hospitalization in 2 weeks as per the previous trends ( always seemed to be a delay of two weeks in previous waves )

If it’s all still pretty low in hospitals in 2-3 weeks time then I think the media hysteria will calm down a bit.

*Edit - quadrupled in fortnight not forty eight hours

*News reports today that areas of England have quadrupled cases in 48 hours

Up here in Scotland our positive case numbers jumped up from yesterday to today too.*

So one daily increase in Scotland and rises in a few 'areas' in England is 'snowballing'? Seems a bit premature to me.

Singapore have just changed their quarantine period to 21 days and those people who were in quarantine already have had it added to the end! They only allow passengers from a few countries in anyway, so much stricter than here and, surprise, surprise, far fewer cases and deaths as a % of population.

@CobraKaiRocks

*Edit - quadrupled in fortnight not forty eight hours

I think Hancock said today it was up 25% in the last two days.

Which roughly means doubling in just under a week.

@lostlife

This is old news- rehashed

Are you under medical supervision for your anxiety?

Are you having counselling to address why you're a knob?

@SexTrainGlue Scotland’s cases doubled in one day
We are up at 394 cases today
It was under 200 yesterday

[quote LizzieMacQueen]@lostlife

Your patronising comments are not very helpful. [/quote]
The OP has posted over 500 covid related posts such as this.

It seems like a cry for help to me.

@lostlife Ah, I was not aware of that.

...Helped by the fact that 110 flights have landed in the U.K. from India since India was finally on the red list,

FWIW many of the BA flights that contributed to that total of 110 will have been carrying only freight - no passengers.