Posted by mancinblack on Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:25 | #

It’s not just in London that swarms of panic buying locusts have invaded. On Monday my local supermarket was fully stocked. When I returned yesterday to buy for the weekend there was hardly any food there at all. The vast rows of freezers were completely empty except for tubs of ice cream, which amused me because if you have a sore throat ice cream might be something you want. Left me hoping for power cuts, which would serve the selfish bastards right.

Posted by Boris Johnson on Mon, 23 Mar 2020 23:06 | #

Coronavirus: ‘You must stay at home’ UK public told - BBC News

Posted by Andrew Cuomo on Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:25 | #

CNBC, 23 Mar 2020:

Cuomo estimates that up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus.

Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized, 621 of the patients have ended up in the ICU and 157 people have died, he said.

New York has run 78,289 COVID-19 tests and is testing more than 16,000 people a day now, he said.

GP: New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo Holds Daily News Conference Amid Coronavirus Outbreak.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during his daily news conference amid the coronavirus outbreak on March 20, 2020 in New York City.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an emergency order Monday directing hospitals to increase their capacity by 50% as coronavirus cases across the state surged 38% overnight to 20,875.

New York is the hardest-hit state in the country, ahead of New Jersey, California and Washington state, Cuomo said. New York City, alone, accounts for 12,305 confirmed infections, he said.

“This could go on for several months,” Cuomo said. Roughly 13% of all cases have been hospitalized, 621 of the patients have ended up in the ICU and 157 people have died, he said.

“Nobody can tell you is it four months, six months, eight months, nine months. But it is several months,” Cuomo said. “We all have to now confront that that is a new reality. That is not going to change. You are not going to turn on the news tomorrow morning and they’re going to say, ‘Surprise, surprise this is all now resolved in two weeks.’”

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Cuomo estimated up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus. Last week, Cuomo estimated there are likely “tens of thousands” of COVID-19 cases in the state among residents who didn’t know they had it.

“Many people will get the virus but few will truly be in danger,” he said Monday.

On Sunday, Cuomo said the state had 15,168 cases, more than France or South Korea were reporting at the time and those numbers are expected to dramatically rise as the state ramps up testing.

New York and New Jersey are seeing coronavirus attack rates at least five times higher than other parts of the country, a U.S. official in charge of the White House’s pandemic response efforts said Monday.

“The New York metro area of New Jersey, New York City, and parts of Long Island have an attack rate close to one in 1,000,” Dr. Deborah Birx, a physician and the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said at a press briefing Monday evening. The attack rate is the percentage of a population that gets the disease.

She said roughly 28% of the specimens submitted in that region have tested positive for COVID-19, while less than 8% have tested positive for the disease in the rest of the country.

“To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the group that actually needs to social distance and self-isolate,” she said. “Clearly, the virus had been there for a number of weeks.”

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Posted by 422 UK deaths... on Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:35 | #

Coronavirus: sharp rise in UK death toll as hospitals prepare for a surge in cases - BBC News

Posted by mancinblack on Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:06 | #

Donald Trump said he wants his nation “opened up and raring to go by Easter” as he spoke about an end to coronavirus lockdown measures across the United States.

The US President spoke about his desire to loosen guidelines, touting the prospect of “packed churches” for the holiday.

“I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter”, he said in a virtual town hall held by Fox News.

In a later interview on Fox News he said “Wouldn’t it be great to have all the churches full?”

“You’ll have packed churches all over the country. I think it would be a beautiful time. And it’s just about the timeline I think is right”.

More…

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/donald-trump-touts-beautiful-timeline-to-lift-coronavirus-restrictions-by-easter-and-have-packed-churches/ar-BB11FPid?ocid=spartandhp

Not content with being “the new Cyrus” it appears Trump also wants to be the new James I and own the title of “the wisest fool in Christendom”.

Posted by Prince Charles tests Covid-19 positive on Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:55 | #

Coronavirus latest news: Prince Charles tests positive for Covid-19

Daily Telegraph, 25 Mar 2020:

The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus and is working from home with mild symptoms.

A Clarence House spokesman said he was “displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few days as usual”.

Prince Charles, 71, and the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, are now self-isolating at their home in Scotland.

The Duchess has also been tested for the virus but did not have it, the spokesman said.

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