COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Wednesday 27th of January:
- World: 100,441,945 confirmed cases and 2,162,333 confirmed deaths
- World: Sees another milestone moment as we pass 100 million confirmed cases. We passed 99 million on Monday meaning another million in the last 2/3 days.
- UK: Wales, and a suspicious package sent to a vaccine factory closes production with Bomb Squad in attendance.
- UK: Research indicates new variant is less likely to provoke tell-tale small and taste loss symptoms, with cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle aches the standout symptoms.
- UK: 16 year old boy who initiated a racially motevated attack against a Singapore Student in the UK while saying "we don't want your coronavirus in our country" scentenced to an 18 month rehabilitation order, has to wear an electronic tag which monitors his movements in real-time alerting authorities to breaches in the terms of the order and is subject to a curfew between the hours of 20:00pm and 19:00pm, and also has to pay £600 in compensation to the victim. The court warned him that if he had been an adult he "would have gone to jail for a very long time."
- UK: Scientists indicate the countrys high death rate is a "legacy of poor decisions" going back to the earliest days of the countries pandemic response.
- UK: Prime Minister apologieses for the extremely high death toll, and once again announces that he takes personal responsibility for the 100,000+ pandemic fatalities.
- Europe/AstraZeneca: Europe leans on vaccine producer to provide contracted amount of doses. "moral, societal and contractual responsibility which they need to uphold" Manurefacturer responds that it has other contracts which were agreed to prior to Europes, which it must honor first and denied vaccines were being taken away from the EU to be sold for a profit elsewhere. The Vaccine plants which apparently under-performed causing this issue are apparently both in Europe, one in Belgium and another in the Netherlands.
- Czech Republic: To pause new inoculations for two weeks to prioritize second doses amid supply delays.
- Spain: Madrid area suspends new vaccinations for two weeks to use remaining stocks to administer second doses.
- US: Dr Fauci suggests a wise course of action would be to Double Mask “It just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,”
- Peru: Announces two week lockdown to counter rising cases.
- France: In a first for the industry, and agreement between companies Sanofi and Pfizer/BioNTech sees Sanofi suspend work on its own vaccine candidate to turn production facilities to help produce their rivals treatment, to start in July and have up to 125 million doses produced by the end of the year.
- Pfizer/BioNTech: Announces its plant in Belgium is now back up to expected manufacturing capacity having been 8% below since last Monday.
- Norway: To close boarders to all but essential travel.
- World: 100,441,945 confirmed cases and 2,162,333 confirmed deaths
- World: Sees another milestone moment as we pass 100 million confirmed cases. We passed 99 million on Monday meaning another million in the last 2/3 days.
- UK: Wales, and a suspicious package sent to a vaccine factory closes production with Bomb Squad in attendance.
- UK: Research indicates new variant is less likely to provoke tell-tale small and taste loss symptoms, with cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle aches the standout symptoms.
- UK: 16 year old boy who initiated a racially motevated attack against a Singapore Student in the UK while saying "we don't want your coronavirus in our country" scentenced to an 18 month rehabilitation order, has to wear an electronic tag which monitors his movements in real-time alerting authorities to breaches in the terms of the order and is subject to a curfew between the hours of 20:00pm and 19:00pm, and also has to pay £600 in compensation to the victim. The court warned him that if he had been an adult he "would have gone to jail for a very long time."
- UK: Scientists indicate the countrys high death rate is a "legacy of poor decisions" going back to the earliest days of the countries pandemic response.
- UK: Prime Minister apologieses for the extremely high death toll, and once again announces that he takes personal responsibility for the 100,000+ pandemic fatalities.
- Europe/AstraZeneca: Europe leans on vaccine producer to provide contracted amount of doses. "moral, societal and contractual responsibility which they need to uphold" Manurefacturer responds that it has other contracts which were agreed to prior to Europes, which it must honor first and denied vaccines were being taken away from the EU to be sold for a profit elsewhere. The Vaccine plants which apparently under-performed causing this issue are apparently both in Europe, one in Belgium and another in the Netherlands.
- Czech Republic: To pause new inoculations for two weeks to prioritize second doses amid supply delays.
- Spain: Madrid area suspends new vaccinations for two weeks to use remaining stocks to administer second doses.
- US: Dr Fauci suggests a wise course of action would be to Double Mask “It just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective,”
- Peru: Announces two week lockdown to counter rising cases.
- France: In a first for the industry, and agreement between companies Sanofi and Pfizer/BioNTech sees Sanofi suspend work on its own vaccine candidate to turn production facilities to help produce their rivals treatment, to start in July and have up to 125 million doses produced by the end of the year.
- Pfizer/BioNTech: Announces its plant in Belgium is now back up to expected manufacturing capacity having been 8% below since last Monday.
- Norway: To close boarders to all but essential travel.
