Britain must stay in total lockdown until June to properly prevent the full extent of the deadly coronavirus and social distancing could last for months, a senior health chief has warned.
The country’s coronavirus death toll rocketed by 260 to 1,019 yesterday in the worst day the country faced yet. A total of 17,089 people tested positive for the bug.
The Prime Minister, who is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, said on Saturday ‘things will get worse before they get better’ as he stressed the need to stay indoors to support the NHS by slowing the spread.
Senior government figures have been more optimistic and have suggested that coronavirus could peak in April with approximately 5,700 deaths. But Professor Neil Fergusonsaid Britons will need to stay indoors for a full three months.
The leading epidemiology adviser to the government told The Sunday Times: ‘We’re going to have to keep these measures [the full lockdown] in place, in my view, for a significant period of time – probably until the end of May, maybe even early June. May is optimistic.’
Professor Ferguson added that even if the lockdown is lifted, people will still need to abide by social distancing measures for months to come.
It came as Michael Gove today declined to be drawn on how long the tough measures restricting people’s lives would be in place for, and that ministers would not hesitate to enforce tougher rules if necessary.
‘There are different projections as to how long the lockdown might last,’ he told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, when asked about one key expert’s prediction of June.
‘But it’s not the case that the length of the lockdown is something that is absolutely fixed.
‘It depends on all of our behaviour. If we follow the guidelines, we can deal more effectively with the spread of the disease.’
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As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.
The 4 nations public health HCIDgroup made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCIDcriteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCIDcriteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.
The need to have a national, coordinated response remains, but this is being met by the government’s COVID-19 response.
Cases of COVID-19 are no longer managed by HCIDtreatment centres only. All healthcare workers managing possible and confirmed cases should follow the updated national infection and prevention (IPC) guidance for COVID-19, which supersedes all previous IPCguidance for COVID-19. This guidance includes instructions about different personal protective equipment (PPE) ensembles that are appropriate for different clinical scenarios.
Definition of HCID
In the UK, a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) is defined according to the following criteria:
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acute infectious disease
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typically has a high case-fatality rate
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may not have effective prophylaxis or treatment
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often difficult to recognise and detect rapidly
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ability to spread in the community and within healthcare settings
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requires an enhanced individual, population and system response to ensure it is managed effectively, efficiently and safely
Classification of HCIDs
HCIDsare further divided into contact and airborne groups:
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contact HCIDsare usually spread by direct contact with an infected patient or infected fluids, tissues and other materials, or by indirect contact with contaminated materials and fomites
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airborne HCIDsare spread by respiratory droplets or aerosol transmission, in addition to contact routes of transmission
List of high consequence infectious diseases
A list of HCIDshas been agreed by a joint Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England HCIDProgramme:
Comments:
Britain must stay in total lockdown until June”…and you people there are putting up with that shit?!? What on earth happened to the British that you are so cowed, cuckolded, and complacent? You know how many people are on mandatory “lockdown” where I live? Zero. And nobody is dropping dead in the streets from this bullshit “pandemic”.
If you allow the “authorities” to enforce this draconian lockdown for even one more week, one more day, you are willingly letting the economy be utterly decimated and submitting yourself to abject slavery. But you willingly gave up your guns, so now you’re screwed.
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A problem for world authorities is that while it was advantageous to them to implement the lockdown globally, the resistance to it is also likely global. Although places like Britain have been in lockdown far shorter than Italy and Spain for example, once an uprising starts in any of those places that uprising can sweep the world in hours. People know the figures for the Covid-19 dead are far fewer than for the flu, so not only was this never a pandemic, it’s less deadly than flu. Therefore the response to it is fake and for very sinister reasons.
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March 29, 2020at 12:32 pm| Permalink
FIRST TIME COMMENTER
Recession ? we are bankrupt, rothschilds loans given to us to fight Germany for him, bankrupted us in the UK.
The loans for w w 2 which we dragged out until 1945, were finally pain back on June 6 2006, amusingly this was 666, as is Wall St New York, and also The New Labour,
We were hoodwinked into fighting w w 32 for the jews, and they are getting us ready for the next one, i wonder how many stupid Brits will sign up for that one ? -
March 29, 2020at 2:51 pm| Permalink
This wonderful link shows that there’s a crack in the dam:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19
This is a Notice to all Governments. The people will have their redress one way or the other for your bungling and your injustices.
It is clear from all of the evidence available that the losses and damages resulting from the government lock downs and restrictions against commerce and human relations now far outweigh the heath risks to the general population from the COVID 19 virus. Unless our governments revise the measures so as to apply only to the small fraction of very vulnerable and generally very elderly people in our populations who have significant mortality risks, there will be numerous law suits by citizens, businesses, and corporations for full recovery of their losses.
Undoubtedly, there will also be major negligence and intentional-tort, class-action law suites particularly against the governments of the Untied States, Canada, and China. The governments of these nations have permitted the possession, experimentation and likely alteration of the COVID-19 flu virus, and have allowed it to “escape” either negligently or with intent. They, therefore, are vicariously liable for all damages including personal income and economic losses of the various victims, anywhere.
The preponderance of evidence remains that, the present Corona virus in the past few years was at the Ft. Detrick biowarfare laboratory in Maryland, and from there samples went to the University of North Carolina, which publications reveal that it was likely altered and tested in their facility, and from there samples of this virus went to the Level IV lab in Wuhan, China. There is also evidence of experimentation on the same virus at the Level IV lab of the Canadian government in Winnipeg, Canada, and from last summer there is evidence of a Chinese molecular biologist at that lab taking and sending samples to the same lab in Wuhan.
In civil law the fact that it was likely the COVID 19 virus which escaped or was released would be the basis for a claim based on negligence, against all three nations, which would be sued jointly and severally by any victim able to get standing in either the US or the Canadian courts. That fact that the virus was in the US and Canada and that there were paltry security precautions to prevent it from going to a facility like Wuhan, which had a bad record for security having allowed other viruses to escape in the past, would make all three nations liable in negligence. Also, even if the virus was not bio-engineered the probability of the exact same virus which went to Wuhan, and Wuhan being the epicenter of the outbreak, strongly indicates that it was the same virus. With the governments of the US and Canada being sued by aggrieved parties in these nations, it is conceivable that the defendant nations would “third party” China and be able to seize any assets owned by Chinese interests in these nations.