CoVid-19 Part IX - 785 cases ROI (3 deaths) 108 in NI (1 death) (20 March) *Read OP*

dummy_crusher wrote: »

Breakdown of Italian numbers by region. Still very much centred in Lombardia.

Think people really need to pay attention to this. Huge numbers in the north

rusty cole wrote: »

BBC news have a runner on the screen bottom which states "death rate in Iran is 1 person per ten minutes! WTF:eek:

And yet Leo didn't mention them when he offered solidarity to those worst affected. I thought his speech was excellent but that was a huge oversight.

threeball wrote: »

Holland is worse, crazy death figures for such a small and affluent country, normally to the forefront in adapting to challenges. Mad about skiing though so probably thronged the north of Italy last month

The Netherlands (together with Germany) have been one the main gateways to the virus from China - thanks to Schipol airport.

See for NL
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/2020-03-...ry=Netherlands

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

That is horrific for Italy my heart really is breaking. Really thought we would see a reduction in numbers by now. Recoveries seem to have jumped a bit though some good news

And they'll continue to go up slowly. Takes a while for the recoveries to climb

Gael23 wrote: »

Nothing seems to be working in Italy.
Aside from the obvious, their economy is going to be in ruins for a very long time

They will have to leave the Euro IMO.

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Do people think trump is wrong to call it the China Virus ?
I can't see why he is getting stick for it , that's where it came from and they actively tried to blame it on American soldiers and they actively tried to hide it form the world for a month,

I can't for the life of me see why people are annoyed at Trump for taking a stand against China ,Sars also came from China about time someone started calling them out if they continue the way the have been what's next ? something worse than this could wipe out everybody ,

We don't call the pandemic that swept through the world between 1918 and 1920, killing an estimated 50 - 100 million people, the American virus. Academically it is referred to as the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Trump is engaging in low brow xenophobic rabble rousing in his insistence in how he repeatedly refers to the current pandemic. Maybe “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” is beyond his feble intellect.

He's a dangerous idiot. Someone should ask him if he thinks SARS-CoV-2 will be a bigger problem than the 1918 American virus that killed 50 - 100 million people worldwide.

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

My heart breaks for Italy. Is their lockdown not working? We need to look at Italy and people cop the fcuk on here and stay away from each other. But large groups still out, parents bringing children to shops. I don't think people are getting the message here.

The lock-down is probably too recent to be bearing fruit yet. It takes a few days for symptoms to emerge, a number of more days for a person to be tested and a result published, and more days still for the person to die or recover.

However the Chinese Red Cross were apparently pretty appalled by the quality of the lock-down, saying that they could see people socializing, public transport running, people out and about.

Gael23 wrote: »

Nothing seems to be working in Italy.
Aside from the obvious, their economy is going to be in ruins for a very long time

Surely they will get a hand from the Vatican City ? They have millions

Worldometers says 15k new cases in Italy, almost certain it said 6k a few minutes ago, what's the story with this?

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Surely they will get a hand from the Vatican City ? They have millions

I don't think millions will help much...

Boris has basically destroyed us.

We will do the same.

But we can't afford it.

greenfield21 wrote: »

Mass layoffs from companies? Let the government pay..

They will be no layoffs now, the government will pay the wages

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Surely they will get a hand from the Vatican City ? They have millions

haha they will need billions

wakka12 wrote: »

Germany must not publish how many are in a serious/critical conditions. Over a dozen have died over the last 48 hours but still says 2 in serious condition for several days now, despite many thousands of new cases

Germany does not even publish the split between:

-cases treated at home in quarantine - because they have none or lesser symptoms

-and cases treated in hospital.
(Italy does publish this split, every day)

So we have no way of learning from the handling of this epidemy by Germany.