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    I'm guessing there are a fair few chinkies being nailed inside their apartments right now.

    BEIJING, Oct 20 (Reuters) - China reported a fourth day of new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in a handful of cities across China, prompting alarmed local governments to double down on efforts to track potential carriers amid the country's zero-tolerance policy.
    A total of 17 new local cases were reported for Oct. 19, up from nine a day earlier, data from the National Health Commission (NHC) showed on Wednesday.
    The new cases were reported in eight cities and administrative divisions, more than four for Oct. 18, the bulk of which were in northern and northwestern China. Three separate cases were also reported in recent days in the south and southwest of China.
    Among the cases was one in the capital city Beijing, which is busy gearing up for its hosting of the 2022 Winter Games in February, where officials vowed stringent efforts against the virus.
    China'''s COVID-19 outbreak grows as cities race to trace infections | Reuters

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    Putin orders nonwork week as COVID numbers rise in Russia

    MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered the country’s workers to stay off work for a week starting later this month amid rising coronavirus infection and death numbers, and he strongly urged reluctant citizens to get vaccinated.


    The government task force on Wednesday reported 1,028 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. That brought Russia’s total death toll to 226,353 which is by far the highest in Europe.


    Putin said Wednesday he supports the Cabinet’s proposal to introduce a nonworking period starting Oct. 30 and extending through the following week, when four of seven days already are state holidays. He added in some regions where the situation is the most threatening, the nonworking period could start as early as Saturday and be extended after Nov. 7.


    “Our task today is to protect life and health of our citizens and minimize the consequences of the dangerous infection,” Putin said in a video call with top officials. “To achieve that, it’s necessary to first of all slow the pace of contagion and mobilize additional reserves of the health care system, which is currently working under a high strain.”

    MORE Putin orders nonwork week as COVID numbers rise in Russia

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    It looks like they are trying to snick in the Health insurance for everyone now.

    " Thailand sets out seven conditions for foreign arrivals without quarantine


    • October 20, 2021
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    Thailand sets out seven conditions for foreign arrivals without quarantine | Thai PBS World : The latest Thai news in English, News Headlines, World News and News Broadcasts in both Thai and English. We bring Thailand to the world

    "1)Come from countries specified by the Thai Public Health Ministry as being low risk and arrive by air. 2)Have certificates to confirm that they have received two doses of a recognised COVID-19 vaccine.
    2)Have negative COVID-19 results from RT-PCR tests conducted within 72 hours prior to arrival in Thailand.
    4)Have a minimum of US$50,000 health insurance coverage.
    5)Have written/electronic confirmation of hotel bookings in Thailand.
    6)Download and install a specified app upon arrival at the airport and undergo RT-PCR tests within 24 hours of arrival.
    7)Have negative test results before travelling domestically without quarantine. "

    Unless their insurance from back home covers them in Thailand, and they can prove it, I am sure tourists will be falling over themselves to buy $50,000 worth of medical insurance to come to Thailand.

    I cant wait for tomorrow's announcement
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    It looks like they are trying to snick in the Health insurance for everyone now. Unless their insurance from back home covers them in Thailand, and they can prove it,
    The COE conditions appear to be the same as applicable from October last year, and probable before. The insurance required COVID-19 treatment coverage.

    Although the health cover was available free, from the airline I used, the Thai Embassy in UK wanted a "proper" UK insurance company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    It looks like they are trying to snick in the Health insurance for everyone now.
    COE has always required health insurance that includes COVID coverage up to $100,000. If this is true, they've halved it.

    Anyway, AXA provide coverage that meets gov't requirements (and gives you certificate that is accepted). I just got a quote for a month for my next trip of Bt2,770.

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    Although the health cover was available free, from the airline I used, the Thai Embassy in UK wanted a "proper" UK insurance company.
    The good thing about the AXA insurance is that it covers you if you are quarantined even though not sick (i.e. asymptomatic). Some of the sneaky little bastards don't cover that circumstance but bury it in the small print.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    The COE conditions appear to be the same as applicable from October last year, and probable before. The insurance required COVID-19 treatment coverage.

    Although the health cover was available free, from the airline I used, the Thai Embassy in UK wanted a "proper" UK insurance company.
    Yes but that was for only Covid 19 coverage not for general health insurance coverage. As far as I know this general coverage health insurance requirement is new.

    Or am I wrong?
    I never really looked into it because I was always covered by my trade Union insurance that covers me around the world, but as I turn 65 soon ,I will be dumped into the Medicare system that does not cover me overseas.
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    Where is PUG?
    Cavid cases dipped to below 9,000 and he missed it.

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    Where’s Joe? As the UK’s counting skills just keep on getting better and better.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    Or am I wrong?
    The UK Embassy approver said it wasn't acceptable, no COE. No upside in arguing. The window of application/COVID-19 test/flight check-in was shrinking ....

    The "proper" UK one was, box ticked, COE issued. The London embassy was very helpful and efficient, all coms by email.



    My papers for the COE were dumped the day I received the colourful, stamped, Thai issued, COVID-19 status papers, at my Thai home.
    Last edited by OhOh; 21-10-2021 at 11:52 AM.
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    Only very old and sick die of COVID if vaccinated, Italian study shows

    MILAN, Oct 20 (Reuters) - People vaccinated against COVID-19 are highly unlikely to die of the disease unless very old and already badly ill before getting it, a study in Italy showed on Wednesday.


    The study by the national Health Institute (ISS), contained in a regular ISS report on COVID-19 deaths, shows the average age of people who died despite being vaccinated was 85. On average they had five underlying illnesses.

    The average age of death among those not vaccinated was 78, with four pre-existing conditions.

    Cases of heart problems, dementia and cancer were all found to be higher in the sample of deaths among those vaccinated.


    The analysis, carried out from Feb. 1 to Oct. 5 this year, studied the medical records of 671 unvaccinated COVID fatalities and 171 fully vaccinated ones.

    There were 38,096 COVID deaths in Italy during the period under review.

    Only very old and sick die of COVID if vaccinated, Italian study shows | Reuters

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    A magnificent achievement really.

    India has achieved a milestone today by vaccinating an unprecedented 1 billion people. In order to celebrate this achievement a series of events has been organised. Announcements will be made on airplanes, ships, metros and railway stations regarding the same. Besides this, celebrations will be held at central government hospitals in Delhi to mark this occasion.

    India vaccinates record 1 billion people - BusinessToday

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    ^

    Yes, probably had lots of competent medics, and supplies of vaccines from one of its friends to its north.

    Same as China, who of course developed, produced and delivered their own vaccines.

    Although, Thailand pips India in the % of population terms.

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    They have the Serum Institute, the largest vaccine producer why would they need the Chinks?

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    They have the Serum Institute, the largest vaccine producer why would they need the Chinks?
    He is totally fucking gormless, isn't he?


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    He is totally fucking gormless, isn't he?

    Oh erm Oh erm, because someone needs to believe....China is the salvation we are all looking for,. A narcissistic bloke with a yellow face, purple lips and a dire need to wipe out individual thought and expression - perhaps that's why Oh Oh has none.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Yes, probably had lots of competent medics, and supplies of vaccines from one of its friends to its north.
    Pakistan? Nepal? They didn't deliver any . . .


    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Same as China
    Oh, so China got theirs from Mongolia or Russia . . .

    You're confused, OhWoe

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    He’s getting worse.

    Every positive thing he sees on this planet is somehow thanks to China.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    He’s getting worse.

    Every positive thing he sees on this planet is somehow thanks to China.
    He believes everything he's told by the chinky shitbags, that's why.

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    Now the chinkies are trying to blame the Wuhan Virus on lobsters.

    They really are witless fucks. And one of them is a consul general FFS. Wankers.

    In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.

    Zha Liyou, the Chinese consul general in Kolkata, India, tweeted an unfounded claim that Covid-19 could have been imported to China from the United States through a batch of Maine lobsters shipped to a seafood market in Wuhan in November 2019. It marks the latest in a series of theories that have been pushed by pro-China accounts since the start of the pandemic.

    With some further digging, Schliebs uncovered a network of more than 550 Twitter accounts, which he shared with NBC News, spreading a nearly identical message, translated into multiple languages — including English, Spanish, French, Polish, Korean and even Latin — at similar times each day between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. China Standard Time.

    Some of the accounts were “unsophisticated sock puppets” with “very few or zero followers,” Schliebs said, while others appeared to be accounts that were once authentic but had been hijacked and repurposed to spread disinformation.

    China-linked disinformation campaign blames Covid on Maine lobsters
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    Covid has severely affected healthcare staff and may have killed between 80,000 and 180,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

    Healthcare workers must be prioritised for vaccines, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, and he criticised unfairness in the distribution of jabs.

    The deaths occurred between January 2020 and May of this year.

    Earlier, another senior WHO official warned a lack of jabs could see the pandemic continue well into next year.

    There are an estimated 135 million healthcare workers globally.

    "Data from 119 countries suggest that on average, two in five healthcare workers globally are fully vaccinated," Dr Tedros said.

    Covid: Virus may have killed 80k-180k health workers, WHO says - BBC News

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    A looming shortage of more than a billion syringes could hit global Covid-19 vaccination efforts next year, The Telegraph has learned.

    Manufacturers and experts in the drive to share vaccines around the world -
    already considerably behind schedule - warned there is likely to be a drastic shortfall of the specialised syringes needed for the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as the global roll-out accelerates next year.

    The high tech mRNA jab is
    becoming increasingly important in the drive to vaccinate the developing world as production and quality issues have arisen with other products.

    Unlike most vaccines, the Pfizer shot is given via a 0.3ml auto-disable syringe, rather than the standard 0.5ml version used for coronavirus vaccines such as the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab.

    Because these specific syringes have not been not been mass-manufactured previously, countries and NGOs do not have the stockpiles needed.

    This has put extreme pressure on the production and global supply chain, particularly in low and middle-income countries where single-use syringes are a WHO requirement because scarcity means there is a higher risk of reuse.

    Currently, just seven manufacturers are pre-approved by the WHO to make the 0.3ml auto-disable syringes, though several more are in the application process.

    US non-profit PATH said its most recent modelling pointed towards a shortage of “over a billion” next year.

    'Worrying' shortage of one billion syringes could hit global Covid vaccine rollout next year

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    Oh dear, looks like the Wuhan virus has fucked the Wuhan marathon.

    This year’s Wuhan Marathon - which was due to be held tomorrow - has been postponed at the last minute amid concerns over a rise in COVID-19 infections across China.
    Wuhan Marathon postponed as concerns grow of rise in COVID cases in China

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    Meanwhile looks like Vlad is losing his grip.

    Police in the northwestern Russian city of St. Petersburg have detained a doctor and four nurses suspected of issuing fake COVID-19 vaccination certifications.
    According to an Investigative Committee statement on October 23, the five work at a health clinic at the Pavlov State Medical University. They are accused of giving people paper and online certificates of vaccination while destroying the unused vaccines.

    Wuhan Marathon postponed as concerns grow of rise in COVID cases in China

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    Wow the Japanese can now vaccinate bats and pangolins. That's if the chinkies haven't eaten them all.

    OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Japan—Japanese scientists have developed a new vaccine that will successfully stop five different types of coronaviruses—not just COVID-19.

    Rather than targeting specific coronaviruses and going through the process all over again in future pandemics, the Japanese approached the problem with a broader solution.

    A newly published paper in the
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, the Japanese have successfully genetically engineered proteins from Sars-CoV-2.


    American companies like Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson go after a specific section of the virus, the spike protein of the virus, which includes the receptor-binding domain, known as the head region. That specialized targeting vaccine only proves effective against a particular coronavirus.

    Aside from the head region of the coronavirus, there is the core region of the virus, which is very similar in multiple coronaviruses. So instead of targeting a specific head region of a particular virus, why not target the core region and wipe out multiple coronaviruses?


    American researchers were not able to get around that predicament, however, researchers at Osaka University in Japan genetically engineered the receptor-binding domain (head region) of the spike protein to have sugar molecules attached.


    What does that mean? Well, mice exposed to those genetically engineered proteins produced a greater proportion of antibodies against the core region—the core region is where multiple coronaviruses are very similar. By controlling the head, you essentially control the body.


    According to the
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, antibodies made by this new method are what scientists call “broadly neutralizing antibodies” and in tests, they were found to not just neutralize Sars-CoV-2, but also Sars-CoV-1, which caused the Sars outbreak of 2002.


    The Japanese genetically engineered proteins were also effective against three coronaviruses found in pangolins and bats, where many believe coronaviruses originated from.


    Japanese Scientists Develop New Vaccine to Prevent Future Coronavirus Outbreaks - Asian Dawn

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