Coronavirus in the UK

[Cleoriff]

The BBC have announced that two patients in the UK have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

No further details have been given other than they are both members of the same family and are receiving specialist NHS care.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51325192

At present, 83 Britons and 27 foreign nationals are flying back to the UK from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak.

The flight is due to land at RAF Brize Norton at 13:30 GMT.

The UK passengers will then be taken to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral and quarantined for two weeks.

[TallTrees]

THANK GOD OUR RETIRED NURSES ARE COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT TO HELP WITH CORONAVIRUS 

one for you @Cleoriff   

[Cleoriff]

Good to hear @TallTrees 

Sadly, I let my registration lapse 5 years ago, so it won't be me.

Did you know nurses have to pay £120 per annum to stay on the National register?

Disgrace!!

[TallTrees]

I did not know that ... @Cleoriff
And I do not agree with it at all.

I thought you may enjoy the little joke ... sent to me from a friend SRN in the Royal Air force..she met her husband an RAF PILOT...they are keeping inside...they both enjoy a good joke.

They have children in Australia who keep them in funnies ...keep laughing!

[Cleoriff]

Actually @TallTrees  I only read the caption. Stupid me

Where on earth is that nurse shoving that needle...?

[TallTrees]

Well ..if and when I get the jab in a queue I will be extra vigilant @Cleoriff 😂

[jonsie]

Very funny @TallTrees 

@Cleoriffit's an abomination about that fee to stay on the national register!

[TallTrees]

Vaccines
Never been happy extending the time between the doses recommended, we have been given half a "bullet" again....remember our troops with no body vests. Other times no ships no planes, no defences in place, actually making timber lookalike planes...the same lies and deliberately misleading the population...years of it.

Edited to add ...cartoon

[pgn]

How will they know? 

My 82yr-old dad got his Oxford AZ vaccine about 10days ago. And a letter to say dose 2 gets administered in 12 weeks time, after which he will need to give it 21days "incubation time" before he's considered "fully vaccinated".

Not sure how they will determine that it has worked, tbh.

[Mi-Amigo]

Senior doctors, British Medical Association, and WHO are recommending cutting the gap between the first and second dose of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

BMA have sent letter to Whitty, who recommended extending the gap from three to 12 weeks.

read more 

[jonsie]

Last Saturday it was announced that my age group would be getting letters this week about the jab

The week is over and no letter

Yet more broken promises from this awful government

What happens if an 80+ gets the vaccination and dies after a couple of weeks. Will that death be recorded as covid related?