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Vaughan Gething, the welsh government’s fitness minister, announced that Wales would add mainland Portugal to its quarantine list, meaning tourists returning to Wales after 4 a.m. will have to isolate themselves for 14 days.
Gething announced its resolution shortly after the British government (for these purposes, the English government) announced that Portugal was not added to England’s quarantine list today.(See 5:12 p.m.)
In a statement, Gething said that Gibraltar, French Polynesia and the Greek islands of Mykonos, Zakynthos, Lesbos, Paros and Antiparos and Crete were added to Wales’ quarantine list, starting at 4am tomorrow.
Gething said he was acting on the recommendation of the Joint Biosafety Center, which said those spaces posed a threat to public health.
This action is taken in reaction to a number of cases of coronavirus imported into Wales through tourists returning from the Greek islands, in particular.Over the following week, more than 20 cases have been shown in passengers on a flight from Zante to Cardiff.
The government has updated its daily coronavirus panel and these are the main points.
Grant Shapps, the shipping secretary, announced that Portugal was not added to the quarantine list today, despite the hypothesis that it would be due to the accumulation of cases there.
Rachel Reeves, Minister of Labor and best friend of Sir Keir Starmer, echoed earlier calls for Scottish Labor leader Richard Leonard to “consider his position.” He made that suggestion in an interview this morning. (See 10:09 am) But in a tweet a few hours later, Reeves reverted to protocol that prohibits Labor leaders in Westminster from commenting on internal Scottish Labor debates and issues.
Some of the most productive newspapers about the coronavirus crisis come from More or Less of BBC Radio 4, presented through Tim Harford, but Harford, like all of us, is wrong and, in an attractive Twitter feed that begins here, explains how he was wrong to say that the threat of dying for Covid-19 was the same as the threat of dying in a bathroom.
Harford explains that he mistook him on a given day for the one-year-old.
But as you move toward the end of the thread, your overall point of view sounds.
This morning, Matt Hancock, the Secretary of Health of England, conducted a series of interviews with the media, in a component to announce the announcement that the government spends 500 million pounds to verify new verification methods.people within 20 minutes if they have a Hancock coronavirus has not set a date for this to happen, however, said it could be widely available in the coming weeks and months (see 7:38 am).
But at the previous Scottish government’s press convention (see 13:35), Professor Jason Leitch, national clinical director of the Scottish government, said he thought this specific verification would work, and although he claimed that the potential benefits of such a verification were considerable, he expressed doubts about its feasibility in practice.Said:
This driving force and this specific prototype – it will be Salford and I think Southampton, Southampton have been involved in some of the first mass control controls in the city – I don’t think this control is that.
But, in a somewhat fictional world, thinking about the future, if you had a fast, noninvasive home test, you can believe what I could do, if it’s specific, I could possibly tell you that today you’re virus-free and that if it can also start over tomorrow, it’ll be virus-free.
But think about the logistics of that. In our country, it is huge and the world total would like that. So anything on it, that’s for sure, but logistics and science are lagging behind.
Leitch then did a saliva-based pregnancy test.
Imagine a saliva pregnancy test. You will get a line on your check to tell you if it is positive or negative today, then you will be told how to behave for this check result, it will start again tomorrow, it will start again the next day.But this right now. – you may not write it that way – it sounds like fiction.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s prime minister, said she wanted to see the evidence play as vital a role as possible, but said it was vital to be “realistic” and optimistic.He said that at one point, other people thought that antibody testing is a panacea, however, that didn’t turn out to be the case.
Scotland police have shown that they are investigating the serious fees against the organizers of a house party attended by more than three hundred people in Midlothian over the weekend.
The news comes just after Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon told reporters that home parties “were a concern,” but that smaller demonstrations were also suspected of driving groups in western Scotland, prompting an increase in local restrictions on Tuesday.
The organizers of the paid party, organized as an advertising occasion on a rented property, may face guilty and reckless driving charges after officials arrived around 12:20 a.m.Sunday, August 30 to disperse the crowd.
Deputy Chief of Police Malcolm Graham said: “Attendees of this organized occasion have shown a brazenry of regulations in a position to help save lives and prevent the spread of coronavirus.”
Having warned that organizing a similar occasion would get a “solid response,” he added:
I cannot stress enough the serious threat to public fitness that an occasion of this magnitude will pose not only to those they provide and to all those with whom they come into contact, but also to the broader network and to all members of the network.emergency that participated in it.
Over the weekend, Scottish police officers responded to reports of around three hundred house parties across the country, dispersed participants and issued six warnings of constant sanctions.
NHS England recorded another 15 deaths in the hospital from coronavirus.The main points are here.
In Scotland, some other death was recorded. There was also some other death in Northern Ireland.
But there were no deaths in Wales.
Costa Coffee will eliminate up to 1,650 jobs in its coffee department stores, more than one in 10 of its workforce, because it said the industry was still complicated with the Covid-19 pandemic, my colleague Sarah Butler reports.
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