The Bavarian will be blocked on Tuesday; Russia registers 16,319 new infections; Lombardy to impose curfew
The architect of Sweden’s debatable policy on coronavirus to refrain from confinement, state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, is interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
He told the BBC that other people have replaced his behavior even if there is no lock in place. “Actually, we’ve also replaced a lot: restaurants are run in an absolutely different way, we paint a lot more at home, much less than before, and a lot has been replaced in Sweden. “
Plans to open more and allow larger meetings have been suspended due to an increase in the number of cases, he admits, although he says it is less dramatic than in other European countries, and says the priority is restrictions on the elderly.
Controversially, it reiterates its view that the use of masks in society is “very weak”.
“We don’t have a very clever concept of where they will be used, to what extent, etc. , and unfortunately, many European countries that have put on mask have experienced Array. .
Asked about criticisms that make an unfavorable comparison between Sweden’s mortality rate and its neighbors, he said: “This is not a threat that we have voluntarily or consciously assumed. . . to sacrifice the elderly . . . that’s probably not true. The epidemic in Sweden is different from that of many neighbouring countries».
For a detailed view of the Swedish approach, pay attention to this episode of Today shortly from early October:
The authorities in Lombardy, Italy, have been given the green light to impose a curfew as the region embraces to increase hospital admissions.
Curfew will run from 11 p. m. at five a. m. and is expected to be in effect from Thursday.
Measures were called for in Lombardy, where coronavirus infections are increasing after the region hit hard through the first wave of the pandemic, after experts said admissions to extensive care units could rise to 600 until the end of the month, at 113 today.
Admissions to general hospitals are expected to increase to 4,000 out of 1,136. A Covid hospital has been reopened at a convention center in Milan, where new instances are developing faster.
Lombardy recorded 1,687 new infections on Monday, the highest count among Italy’s 20 regions.
Campania, in the south, is not far away with 1,593 cases. Infections in Italy fell below 10,000 on Monday, but nearly 50,000 fewer swab tests were performed compared to Sunday.
A London-based company received a uk government contract of up to 10 million pounds to deliberately infect healthy young volunteers with Covid-19 to accelerate the progress of a vaccine, clinical correspondent Natalie Grover reports.
So-called “provocation trials” have a prospect of producing effects faster than traditional vaccine box trials in which researchers will have to wait for participants to inflate in the genuine world. They can also be used to expand remedies and compare various candidate vaccines. .
Natalie also spoke to several trial volunteers, 22-year-old student Seon McPartlin:
“Even though the long-term effects are even worse than we suspect, I still think there are many volunteers, added to myself, who would be willing to move on because the benefits of getting can save people’s lives. “
Burnham talks about the effects of Manchester entering a Level 3 blockade that “potentially lasts for months” and warns: “We are now involved that if we get into a Level 3 blockade that potentially lasts for months, we will see an intellectual fitness crisis. in addition to a pandemic . . . I won’t do it to protect the other people whose lives will suffer.
In terms of protecting the elderly and vulnerable, he says that “everything is a component of the solution. “But he adds that he is involved in how Level 3 plans are evolving, saying that if Level 3 is an opportunity, he has yet to close “many things” that have not been matched through a “fair monetary framework for Level 3. “
He added: “We are protecting ourselves not only for ourselves, but also for each and every place, because there is a very smart possibility that each and every component of England will be in the third category next winter. “
Hi, I’m Archie Bland replacing Alison and in the UK with Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham on the Today programme, meeting the midday government deadline to reach an agreement to transfer Covid’s restrictions from point 3.
He begins by saying that “an evening ultimatum defeated to the media was a provocative gesture. “He then says he doesn’t need to escape the right tensions and will tell local leaders when they speak this morning that they deserve to write to the government before the deadline to reach a figure they consider fair to the government. Government assistance.
“I’m not going to get into those negotiations on the air,” he told the BBC. “But it’s fair to recognize that if you put a position under restrictions as long as we’re subject to restrictions, people die, pushing corporations to the limit. Array. . . it’s not a stance, it sends local parliamentarians and the governing council. “
That’s all from me now. I give the blog to my colleague in the UK, Archie Bland.
Unsurprisingly, coronavirus is at the forefront of many British newspapers.
In England, Covid’s strictest restrictions will be imposed on nearly 3 million people in Greater Manchester if no agreement is reached at noon on Tuesday, the government said in a dramatic ultimatum, write Josh Halliday and Helen Pidd of the Guardian.
Community secretary Robert Jenrick warned Northern leaders Monday night that if they did not settle for pub closure and a ban on family mixing, Level 3 measures would be carried out unipally.
He said he “informs the Prime Minister that despite our most productive efforts, we have not been able to reach an agreement. “
The statement, which came just hours after a government assembly with Greater Manchester leaders ended in chaos and confusion, makes it highly likely that Level 3 restrictions will be imposed in the region within 48 hours.
The high-risk ultimatum was met furiously in Greater Manchester, where Labour MP Andrew Gwynne accused the government of being “completely derogatory” to the region, and council leaders said ministers had made no compromise while seeking to close pubs, bars and other places. .
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India is at the center of efforts to produce a Covid vaccine, writes Hannah Ellis-Petersen of The Guardian.
As a global leader in medicines and a manufacturer of 60% of the world’s vaccines, India has long been known as the “world pharmacy. “
Now that the frantic pursuit of a Covid-19 vaccine is gaining momentum, the country is playing an increasingly strategic and central role in the development, manufacture and, above all, long-term imaginable distribution of several imaginable Injections of Covid.
With more than 7. 5 million cases and around 115,000 deaths, India is also one of the countries most affected by the virus, only the United States.
An agreement has already been reached for the Serum Institute of India, founded in the city of Pune, to produce one billion doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, the forerunner of the vaccine career. approximately 2 million vaccine samples and is conducting phase 3 human clinical trials in thousands of patients at 15 Covid-19 hotspots in India.
This week, the Serum Institute of India said it was confident that the AstraZeneca vaccine would be in condition until December and could be distributed in India until March.
Adar Poonawalla, executive director of the Indian Serum Institute, said it is “very optimistic” that more than one effective vaccine is imminent.
“Much of the knowledge I’ve noticed informally in many of these vaccines is very promising and more than 3 to 4 vaccines will be a success very soon next year,” Poonawalla said.
The Serum Institute, which also began human trials this week with an Intranasal Covid vaccine, is just one of dozens of Indian corporations vying to produce the coveted vaccine, nearly two hundred other types of them being developed worldwide.
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