Boris Johnson’s warning comes after Spain criticized the UK for extending non-essential recommendations to the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands
If it was me, I wouldn’t be booking a vacation right now. I would decide, if I had time to spend the holidays, I would decide to spend them here in Scotland.
Scotland reported the 12th day in a row without the deaths of Covid-19 patients in hospital, Sturgeon said it is imperative that no unnecessary threat is taken. The Welsh government is also urging others to avoid holidays abroad. (See 1:51 p.m.)
It’s all from me for today.
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Boris Johnson has said he would like motorists to be more “courteous” cyclists. On one occasion to publicize the 2 billion pound cycling strategy announced today, he said:
What we’re going to do is create thousands of miles of protected motorcycle lanes: in reality, protected motorcycle roads are essential to give other people the confidence they need, many other people are not very brave or confident cyclists. .
What I also see are more pictures to make motorists perceive that we are all going to focus the roads, the cyclists, to be respectful, to be courteous.
Things have improved, but there is still much work to be done.
The government ends its holiday programme this autumn is a “mistake” that will raise unemployment to 1.2 million until Christmas, warned the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), one of the UK’s leading centres of economic studies. My colleague Richard Partington has the whole story.
People will be offered housing outside the home if asked to self-harm through the NHS’s monitoring and monitoring program, a behavioral expert said. As PA Media reports, Susan Michie, professor of fitness psychology at University College London, said Britain will emulate Vietnam and offer anyone with a positive Covid-19 check and their contacts a position where they can isolate themselves “as long as necessary.” “
Michie, who is a member of the Government Emergency Advisory Group (Sage), as well as a member of the election group, Independent Sage, said few people in the UK have the ability to isolate themselves in their homes. Speaking at a Covid-19 briefing for the Royal Society of Medicine, in response to a question about how others are encouraged to cooperate with testing and tracing, he said:
If you’re asking people to shop on their friends, if you like, and their friends will then be asked to isolate for two weeks – that could lose them an enormous amount of money and in a situation where it may be very difficult in terms of their accommodation.
In any case, you put them on a stage where they may feel exceptional guilt and many other people don’t.
It’s not enough to motivate other people, it’s not enough to tell other people what to do. He wants to be to give them the social context and curtains in which they can do it.
So if we want other people to be quarantined for two weeks voluntarily and because they have been in contact with others and want monetary security.
And second, how many other people in this country have houses where they can isolate themselves in their homes? Not much.
[In] other countries, for example, Vietnam, which had no deaths the last time I heard, as soon as he gets a positive test, he and his contacts receive accommodation and receive care for as long as necessary.
Today, we are not a deficient country for Vietnam. Vietnam can do it. We can do it.
And, as we talk about the coronavirus figures, the tables here at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control provide a smart consultant on how the SCENARIO in the UK compares to the scenario in EU countries.
With regard to the new case measures, several countries are much worse off than the UK. For example, Spain has a cumulative number of 14 days for new instances at 47.2 consisting of 100,000, while in the UK it is 15 consistent with 100,000.
But when it comes to deaths (an indicator of delay, as other people who die from coronavirus tend to die several weeks after they have been infected), only two countries make it worse than the UK. Its cumulative number of deaths over 14 days is 1.4 consistent with 100,000 inhabitants. The only countries that make it worse are Sweden and Romania, either with 1.6% of the 100,000.
The UK recorded 119 coronavirus deaths, according to today’s update on the official government scoreboard, bringing the official total to 45878.
This is a Public Health England figure for the UK total. But, confusingly, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs has stopped publishing this figure as a component of its only update, because it no longer considers it reliable.
The figure for PHE is suspicious because it includes others in England who have tested positive for coronavirus and died, even if they have died for anything else.
But the main challenge with the general name is that it is underestimated because it doesn’t come with other people who have died of a coronavirus without having tested positive. When these deaths occur, the total number of coronavirus deaths in the UK is more than 55,000.
At her press conference, Nicola Sturgeon, the Prime Minister of Scotland, said she was on an excursion for the 4 UK countries to go on to get rid of the coronavirus. (See 4:04 p.m.) This is, in fact, the “Zero Covid” technique advocated by the independent scientific organization Sage. Independent Sage says Scotland and Northern Ireland are about to get rid of the virus. In an editorial today, the Guardian sided with Sturgeon and said that England and Wales also verify this technique.
In a series of Twitter posts, Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and Scottish government advisor on coronavirus, explains the separation and eradication.
At his press conference, Sturgeon said he opposed the concept that it would be appropriate to allow the coronavirus to continue to exist and spread to a relatively low point in the community. This is consistent with what the Scottish government has said. In its original coronavirus release strategy published in April, the Scottish government stated:
We are clear that an assumption that there is a proportion or section of the population that it is safe or acceptable to allow to be infected forms no part of the Scottish government’s policy or approach.
Sturgeon obviously believes that the UK government has another technique and that it facilitates blocking more temporarily because it believes that a coronavirus safe is tolerable. In general, Westminster ministers have avoided saying this explicitly (because an “appropriate” point of coronavirus involves an appropriate number of coronavirus deaths). But the British government’s recovery strategy (pdf) published in May spoke of cutting the virus to “manageable points” as a target, and Sridhar disputes that some other BRITISH government document (pdf) implied that 1000 instances per day would be “appropriate” “rate of occurrence. (The number of new instances has been below this point for more than a month).
Although the House of Commons is suspended, the House of Lords is still seated and his colleagues spoke this afternoon in a personal matter (PNQ) about quarantine and for those forced to take time off from work.
As HuffPost’s Paul Waugh reports here, Lady Buscombe, a Conservative, angered Labour by arguing that people who took the risk of booking a holiday abroad should not be entitled to help from the taxpayer. Buscombe said:
The challenge with Labour and Liberal Democrats is that they like to spend other people’s money. They complain about austerity and then need to spend even more cash from taxpayers on others who have chosen to risk traveling primarily to laugh amid a global pandemic.
Lady Vere, Minister of Transport, responding to the PNQ on behalf of the government. Until now, with respect to Spain, the government rejects calls to the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands for an exemption from the quarantine rule, but Vere said the concept of regional quarantine exemptions had not been ruled out for the future. She said to her classmates:
Right now, we’re bringing a country-by-country technique to border measures. But we could possibly put them in position for the regions in the future. We’re not there yet, but we are doing it because it’s a proper consideration.
Health officials in Oldham are introducing new restrictions, which leave immediately, after the city reported an increase in coronavirus cases, PA Media reports. The new address, which is expected to last two weeks, aims to prevent the spread of the virus and a local blockade, as observed in Leicester.
The city’s 235,000 citizens are asked not to obtain social visitors in their homes and to remain 2 metres from their friends and the circle of relatives when they are seen outside.
Retirement homes will not have newly lifted visitation restrictions, and those who protect the property will be asked to protect the property for another two weeks from Friday, July 31.
Oldham recorded 119 instances in the seven days prior to July 25, to 26 in the week ending July 17. This means an existing rate of 50.2 positive tests consistent with 100,000, compared to 10.2 consistent with 100,000 last week.
UK stores achieved sales in more than a year after the reopening of non-essential retail outlets in mid-June, according to CBI’s latest expenditure summary. My colleague Larry Elliott has the whole story here.
Although NHS England recorded another 12 coronavirus deaths (see 2:23 p.m.), there were no more deaths in Scotland (details here), Wales (details here) or Northern Ireland (details here).
Public fitness officials in Wales are investigating the imaginable links between a Covid-19 outbreak at a food factory in Wrexham and one at the city’s general hospital.
Sets of cell checks will be opened partly built by the army in north Wales.
There were approximately 300 cases of Covid-19 connected to Rowan Foods in Wrexham and between 60 and 70 patients at Wrexham Maelor Hospital tested positive.
Welsh Finance Minister Rebecca Evans said Tuesday that outbreak groups were seeking imaginable links between the plant and the hospital.
When asked if a network transmission was occurring, she replied:
It turns out that if the other people at Wrexham Hospital didn’t paint in Rowan, they would potentially have had that touch within the community. That turns out to be the case.
Dr Chris Williams, incident director for Covid-19 at Public Health Wales, said the mobile units would help experts gain a better understanding of the situation in Wrexham.
Jet2 Holidays told consumers not to show up at the airport to take flights to Spain, and Tui, which had already cancelled all its holiday packages in mainland Spain, has suspended all trips to the Spanish islands until Friday, i.e. those that expire. fly on Saturday, face a few attractive days.
Tui’s holiday in mainland Spain is cancelled until Sunday 9 August 2020 included.
Both corporations stated that affected passengers had to rebook, accept coupons or a refund.
The fact that they do not cancel the long-term holiday suggests that they hope that some kind of agreement can be reached to exempt the Balearic and Canary Islands from the government ban on all unless it is a duty-not vacation – or the desire to quarantine for 14 days.
Monday’s resolution through British ministers ended the Christmas hopes of thousands of those waiting to leave for Mallorca in the coming days. July and August are historically the busiest months of the year, with many trips booked through those with young people up to a year in advance.
Travel insurance is no longer valid when the Foreign Department advises 12 200s on non-essential Array and agencies still have no option to cancel. Holidaymakers with holidays without reservation and no package are also strongly recommended.
A Jet2 spokeswoman said:
Following the government’s latest recommendation to the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands from the UK, we advise consumers not to go to the airport from today as we do not operate flights to those destinations. This recommendation also applies to consumers visiting one of our destinations in mainland Spain.
Today we will carry out our normal back to the UK programme from those destinations. This scenario is becoming incredibly temporary and we will provide you with a new update as soon as possible.
NHS England recorded another 12 deaths at the hospital from coronavirus. The full main points are here.
Welsh Government Finance Minister Rebecca Evans has encouraged others to stay home during their summer vacation.
Echoing what Nicola Sturgeon at the Scottish government briefing (see 1:49 p.m.), Evans:
I’m sure I inspire others to stay here in Wales and make the most of everything we have around the corner, especially since we know how difficult the tourism industry and the hospitality industry has been here.
Evans also said he understood the sadness of others after the announcement of the quarantine of visitors to Spain when they return to the UK.
Speaking at the Welsh government’s weekly press conference, he said:
I fully perceive how disappointing it is for other people who have booked holidays and who have potentially worked very difficult coronavirus jobs and now it happens.
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