The COVID-2019 Thread

[harrybarracuda]

How's that knockoff chinky mRNA vaccine going Hoohoo?

They could really do with it right now.

[Shutree]

Have you contacted the data provider?

Two years into this pandemic and nobody has checked the numbers?

The only reliable numbers out of China are those from Hong Kong. Carrie Lam has followed Beijing's instructions and screwed things up massively. During the last couple of weeks, Hong Kong has topped the global charts of deaths per million people. Yes, worst in the world. Hong Kong, China.

HK friends assure me that Omicron is spreading nicely in Shenzhen now. The virus doesn't care what your politics are.

I have a HK-born Chinese friend, she has lived there here whole life. This month she moved to UK. She is not alone, money and intellectual capital are leaving the city. One of the busiest cities on earth and they tried to lock it down for 2 years. It is a policy that failed in HK and there is good reason to believe that it will fail across China.

People on stretchers outside full hospitals. People attempting suicide in Penny's Bay because it is so vile. Innocent people treated worse than criminals.

An expat friend has lived in HK as a permanent resident for about 48 years. He and his HK-born partner have had enough. They sold one of their two apartments and bought a place in Penang. They'll move permanently later this year when the paperwork is finished.

Of course, Carrie Lam doesn't care. She knows these people despise her and her overlords. She'll be happy to see them go. She probably in what passes for her heart feels similarly about the many aged folk dying because they chose not to get vaccinated, partly because the government they abhor told them to. You have to remember that many of these people were young and strong in the 1960s, they dodged border guards and their 'shoot to kill' policy, they braved the sharks of Mirs Bay and many other hardships to live freely in Hong Kong. Only to become, at the ends of their lives, victims of the same regime. Tragic.

You go ahead and focus on your data, the data you quote when it suits and question when it suits. Meanwhile, real people are having their lives turned upside down, or ended prematurely. That is the real China story.

[harrybarracuda]

Of course, Carrie Lam doesn't care.

It wouldn't matter if she did. She is another ventriloquist's dummy with Mr. Shithole's hand up her arse, and parrots whatever she is told to say.

[OhOh]

You go ahead and focus on your data, the data you quote when it suits

Same data source, same graphs, same rating system .... since I started, I believe it's a Nagastan institution.

Not so much recently I admit since 'arry confirmed, it was no longer required. As many exceptional"countries have decided the pandemic is over and stopped testing. Making those country's data worthless.



Coronavirus Source Data - Our World in Data

I appreciate there are many local and imported Chinese employed in many NaGastan institutions. On merit, they do seem to win many awards, or ....

Who publish, daily, data from

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC)About Us

"The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC) is a continuously updated source of COVID-19 data and expert guidance. We collect and analyze the best data available on cases, deaths, tests, hospitalizations, and vaccines to help the public, policymakers, and healthcare professionals worldwide respond to the pandemic. TIME recognized the CRC as the “go-to data source” for COVID-19 and named it to the Top 100 Inventions of 2020. In 2021, Research!America named the CRC a recipient of its “Meeting the Moment for Public Health” award."

About Us - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Which source would you suggest I utilise?

Your two friends:

HK friends assure me that Omicron is spreading nicely

Is there a TD approved source?

[harrybarracuda]

Is there a TD approved source?

Neither of the two main sources can be treated as fact, simply because they can only get their figures from the corrupt Mr. Shithole government.

And we all know how they like to cover up all things Covid....

[misskit]

‘It’s a nightmare’: Hong Kong runs low on coffins as Omicron exacts deadly toll

SINGAPORE — The repurposed AsiaWorld-Expo center in Hong Kong echoes with the moans of elderly COVID-19 patients. Kept in 8-square-foot cubicles, many go weeks without fresh air, sunlight or a bath. Some take their last breaths under the harsh glow of the convention hall lights. On a good day, an ambulance will arrive in an hour to carry their bodies away.
“It’s a nightmare,” said Lily, a 22-year-old nurse at the isolation facility. “Sometimes we call for an ambulance because a patient needs to go to a hospital, and we’re told it will take one to two days to arrive. It’s really shocking.”


The nurse, exhausted by having to care for more than 150 patients with one other co-worker, declined to give her last name because staffers were ordered not to speak to the press about the conditions at the site, which have come to exemplify the runaway COVID-19 crisis in Hong Kong.


In just a matter of weeks, the city of more than 7 million has transformed from one of the safest places during the pandemic to having what’s believed to be the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the world. On Feb. 18, Hong Kong had a total of 259 COVID deaths since the pandemic began. A month later, the number had soared to nearly 4,600 — on par with the reported total in China, a country of 1.4 billion.

With an alarmingly low vaccination rate among its seniors, about 90% of Hong Kong’s deaths in the latest wave have been of patients 60 or older. Morgues and hospitals have run out of room to store bodies. The city is awaiting a fresh batch of coffins arriving by sea.


Concerns are now spilling into mainland China, which is facing its worst outbreak since the disease was first reported in Wuhan in early 2020. Fueled by the easily transmissible Omicron variant, the number of cases on the mainland has surged in the last week, with authorities reacting by locking down neighborhoods in major cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen and the entire province of Jilin, affecting tens of millions of people.


“We are at a key stage,” said Jing Junhai, Jilin’s Communist Party chief, according to state media.


Combined with Omicron-fueled outbreaks in South Korea and Vietnam, the pandemic is proving stubbornly resilient in parts of Asia at a time when the United States and Europe have decided — rightly or wrongly — to move on from the coronavirus, lifting mask mandates and allowing large gatherings.

That social freedom comes after the loss of more than 2 million American and European lives. By comparison, the death toll in China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Vietnam officially numbers in the tens of thousands, in no small part because of strict adherence to policies such as zero tolerance for COVID.


The strategy, which relies on tightly controlled borders, mass testing, quarantining and isolation to eliminate all instances of the virus, was already under strain for weakening economic growth and fraying the nerves of millions of people desperate to travel, attend school and do business like before.


Now it faces its biggest test, with Omicron predicted to infect more than half of Hong Kong’s population in the coming weeks while threatening to spread across mainland China, where there’s virtually no natural immunity and millions of unvaccinated seniors.


“In the earlier phases of the pandemic, the goal of keeping cases as close to zero as possible was reasonable,” said Keiji Fukuda, a leading epidemiologist and the former director of Hong Kong’s top public health school at the University of Hong Kong. “But over time, COVID-19 showed its ability to persist and evolve. … [It] shows no signs of disappearing. Since the most likely scenario is that the world will be living with COVID-19 indefinitely, the value of a zero-case policy diminishes.”


Hong Kong, a former British colony that still maintains some autonomy from China, proved zero tolerance could work when caseloads were low. But when Omicron lifted the number of daily infections in the city by more than 800% starting in mid-February, it exposed many of the city’s shortcomings — none more devastating than the failure to inoculate enough of Hong Kong’s elderly.


Less than 45% of Hong Kong residents ages 70 and up were vaccinated when the outbreak started. The rate was even lower for seniors in assisted-living homes — less than 20%. That’s well below Hong Kong’s overall vaccination rate of 72%.


Overnight, the Asian financial center was inundated with scenes of sickly older patients flooding hospital wards. Space became so limited that many had to be wheeled outdoors and kept on roadsides without shelter.


Experts say a number of factors have led to low rates of vaccination among Hong Kong’s seniors. Political unrest starting in 2019 bred distrust of the government, weakening calls to heed public health advice. Other seniors were influenced by misinformation online and in local media about threats vaccines allegedly posed to the elderly and frail. Many reasoned it wasn’t worth risking a shot when the city had so few cases. Moreover, studies have shown China’s domestic vaccines made by Sinovac and Sinopharm are less effective at preventing disease than their mRNA counterparts such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.


“This tragedy was entirely predictable and it was entirely preventable,” said Gabriel Leung, dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. “We’ve had early, sustained, uninterrupted, privileged access to vaccines. And yet we are probably the only population in the global north that has such poor coverage of our most vulnerable.”


Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam acknowledged recently that “not enough” had been done to vaccinate seniors.


The city is now upping its efforts. Its health department did not respond to a request for comment on conditions at the AsiaWorld-Expo center.


Lam’s government has been widely criticized for its handling of the crisis. Its failure to clearly rule out a lockdown led to panic buying and the emptying of supermarket shelves earlier this month. The forced isolation of COVID-19 patients resulted in parents being separated from their infants. And a plan to test all residents for the virus appears to have collapsed because the city’s labs lack capacity.


The missteps have reinforced perceptions of Hong Kong’s decline as a global city. The outbreak has exacerbated the exodus of residents, which reached levels unseen last year in more than half a century. Meanwhile, the city’s stock market dipped to its lowest level in eight years this week.


“The government could have handled this much better,” said Bruno Ko, a fourth-year biomedical engineering student who recently recovered from COVID-19. “They allowed rumors to spread and created panic.”


Ko said he was probably infected by his parents, with whom he shares a 1,000-square-foot apartment. When his father called a hotline to seek an isolation center, he couldn’t get through because the line was inundated. The family eventually stopped trying and recovered at home.


“Everyone is exhausted,” said Ko, whose voice remains scratchy from his illness. “We’re going crazy staying home with no social life and no food. You can’t even get KFC delivered at night. They can’t continue with zero-COVID because this is going to last for years.”

Officials in mainland China have started to contemplate what a more accommodating COVID-19 policy might look like. But in briefings and interviews with Chinese state media, experts and epidemiologists said current prevention measures will need to be upheld in order to minimize serious illness among the unvaccinated and the strain on the country’s medical resources.


Zhang Wenhong, a well-known epidemiologist in Shanghai, said on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo this week that the situation in Hong Kong has shown the importance of vaccinations, particularly among the elderly.


According to a November report from state-run Xinhua News Agency, about 81% of China’s 264 million people over age 60 have received at least one dose of vaccine, leaving about 50 million unvaccinated.


As a rise in confirmed cases kicks off a countrywide scramble to contain outbreaks, many residents are more concerned about getting ensnared in the country’s COVID prevention measures than actual infection.


Cindy, a 26-year-old Shanghai resident who declined to give her last name, said the breadth and uncertainty of the latest COVID-19 restrictions have been frustrating. Despite living less than a mile away from an outbreak site, she’s preoccupied with what will happen to her dog if she gets stuck away from home.


“What scares most of my friends around me is to be locked down in the wrong place for 14 days,” she said. “The government wants so badly to have zero cases.”


Others say they can no longer tell the difference between a lockdown and the COVID controls that have permeated everyday life in China.


In Shenzhen, photographer Leo Lee doesn’t feel much impact from staying at home, since he often works remotely and orders groceries online for delivery. Two of his co-workers, in anticipation of the partial lockdown, opted to live at the office for access to the photo studios. With public transportation halted, one took a cab and the other rode a bike, he said.


“People here are optimistic and completely cooperate,” Lee said. “I don’t think we will need a long time to reach zero cases.”


There are signs that China is attempting more flexibility in its latest COVID-19 control measures. Rather than shutting down the entire city of Shanghai, apartment complexes and communities have been cordoned off in shifts while residents undergo mass testing. China’s National Health Commission adjusted its policy to allow patients with mild symptoms to isolate in centralized quarantine facilities rather than at hospitals, and lowered the bar for patients to be discharged.


Zhang, sometimes referred to as China’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, struck an optimistic tone in his public post despite the outbreak. He said that containing the virus will provide a window of opportunity to vaccinate more elderly residents and improve testing and treatment, and it doesn’t mean that the strategy moving forward would always be lockdowns and large-scale testing. Any long-term measures would have to be gentle and sustainable, he said.


“In two years of fighting the pandemic, is the most difficult period the long winter night or the cold snap in spring?” Zhang wrote. “When we clearly see the road ahead and the spring that must come, what is there to be afraid of?”

Hong Kong runs low on coffins as Omicron exacts deadly toll - Los Angeles Times

[panama hat]

I wonder if Beijing will still blast from the rooftops that HK is China . . . or will it be foreigners' fault, the CIA's or the UK's?

[Switch]

The fact remains, the movement of intellectual property rights, capital and the brain drain means that Hong Kong is no longer ‘special’ in any way. The Chinese have won by oppression, and anything of value in HK has already left, or is leaving.
It is now part of the great Chinese Tyranny.

[OhOh]

they can only get their figures from the corrupt ....

CDC slashes Covid-19 death tally Biden administration quietly revises data, including 24% cut to number of US children killed by the virus

18 Mar, 2022 18:34 HomeWorld News

"The supposed surge in American children being killed by Covid-19 amid rapid spread of the Omicron variant perhaps didn’t happen after all, as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its data with a sharply lower death toll."

continues at:

DDOS-GUARD
NaGastan government fudging numbers, stopping testing = corruption.

[aging one]

Still posting RT bullshit are we comrade?

[harrybarracuda]

CDC slashes Covid-19 death tally Biden administration quietly revises data, including 24% cut to number of US children killed by the virus

18 Mar, 2022 18:34 HomeWorld News

"The supposed surge in American children being killed by Covid-19 amid rapid spread of the Omicron variant perhaps didn’t happen after all, as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its data with a sharply lower death toll."

continues at:

DDOS-GUARD
NaGastan government fudging numbers, stopping testing = corruption.

Yes, you see people aren't afraid to admit mistakes in the free world.

There is no risk of re-education, beating, jailing or killing as a result.

[harrybarracuda]

Another nail in the sheep dewormer coffin. Baaaaaaaaaa!

PETALING JAYA: The anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin did not reduce Covid-19 hospitalisations in the largest trial to date, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

In a tweet on Friday (March 18), Dr Noor Hisham posted a video by the Institute for Clinical Research (ICR), which reiterated that it should only be used in clinical trials.


"Patients who got the anti-parasitic drug didn’t fare better than those who received a placebo," said Dr Noor Hisham.

Covid-19: Ivermectin didn't reduce hospitalisations, says Health DG | The Star

[misskit]

Experts Say Long COVID Can Lead to Mental Health Issues

BANGKOK (NNT) - ?The government is again urging more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as the daily rate of new infections continues to rise. However, experts say it is still best to avoid contracting the disease altogether, as new research shows symptoms can significantly impact a person’s mental health.


Dr Thira Woratanarat from the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University recently posted on his Facebook account new findings from Australia and Italy on the trend of mental health issues before and after contracting COVID-19.


The study suggests people with existing conditions before getting infected could see these conditions worsen after contracting the coronavirus.


Dr Thira therefore stressed the importance of taking precautionary measures such as wearing masks, practicing social distancing, limiting physical contact with others, and self-isolating when feeling unwell.


People who have recovered from COVID-19 are meanwhile encouraged to monitor themselves for any unusual symptoms or conditions, and to seek medical attention if they exhibit them.


Experts Say Long COVID Can Lead to Mental Health Issues

[harrybarracuda]

Some interesting discussion about Long Covid.

What doctors wish patients knew about long COVID | American Medical Association

[misskit]

China continues to break Covid case record, officials face the brunt for 'laxity'

As a resurgent COVID-19 wreaks havoc in China, more than 70 officials have been let go as a “punishment” in the past one month for failing to control the virus.


China has been witnessing a spurt in Covid cases owing to the more contagious Omicron variant.

According to South China Morning Post, top leaders have warned officials that strict action would be taken if they fail to act swiftly.


The warning comes even as health officials have acknowledged that most of the infections showed little or no symptoms making their detection difficult, the newspaper reported.

The newspaper claimed that at least 74 officials have been sacked or reprimanded for failing to do their duty during the current wave.


Meanwhile, China reported over 4,700 new infections on Tuesday, with the bulk of cases being recorded from the northeastern province of Jilin, where more than 9 million people have been placed under lockdown.


Jilin has mostly banned trips both outside the province and from region to region within the province, and residents who have to travel must notify the police.

The number of local symptomatic cases in Jilin's provincial capital of Changchun has increased for five days in a row and hit a record on March 21.


In Shenyang, an industrial base home to factories including carmaker BMW, 47 new cases were reported on Tuesday as authorities put all housing compounds under "closed management" and barred residents from leaving without a 48-hour negative test result.


In China's financial hub Shanghai, 865 domestically transmitted asymptomatic infections were reported on Monday, an increase from 734 a day earlier, reports Reuters citing the official data.


Although small compared with the number of infections in many outbreaks overseas, the rise is significant as Shanghai redoubles its efforts to implement China's "dynamic clearance" policy designed to curb each flare-up.

The city is pressing ahead with a block by block testing scheme after already completing more than 30 million tests.


The southern tech powerhouse of Shenzhen on Monday announced it would lift its week-long lockdown "in an orderly manner", after having partially eased measures on Friday to minimise the impact of virus shutdowns on factories and ports.


China continues to break Covid case record, officials face the brunt for 'laxity', World News | wionews.com

[OhOh]

^Some perspectives:

[Switch]

^Some perspectives:

You want perspective? Try this. Chinese population is now close to 1.5 billion.

United states, around 350 million.

Germany population, around 85 million.

While I realise that you are quoting percentages, the sheer numbers of Chinese make this calculation nearly impossible. Not only that, but how can they be trusted to use accurate figures? The USA and Germany are free democracies. (Yes I know that irks you somewhat, but their figures are so much ,ore reliable than a country that obfuscated and lied over the cause of the pandemic in the first place.

They continued to deny the existence of the plague until hiding it became untenable. I know you hate the west and the US in particular, but it’s so much easier to hide/fudge numbers in a communist tyranny.

[harrybarracuda]

The chinkies must be shitting bricks about Omicron and their crappy vaccines.

[misskit]

Dozens of suspected COVID ‘Deltacron’ cases found in Thailand, all recover

In December and January, Thailand detected 73 cases of suspected “Deltacron”, a broad name describing variants of the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) that contain a mixture of mutations found in Delta and Omicron, but all the patients have recovered, said Medical Sciences Department Director-General Dr. Supakit Sirilak today (Wednesday).


He said virologists at the department have decoded the genetic makeup of all the 73 cases and found they could be Deltacron cases, but results of the findings have been sent to GISAID, a global science initiative and primary source headquartered in Germany, for confirmation.


When the 73 suspected Deltacron cases were detected, Dr. Supakit explained that the Delta variant was still being found in small numbers of patients, hence, there were possibilities that Delta could combine with Omicron.


Since Omicron has now become the dominant variant, accounting for 99.95% of all new COVID-19 cases, he said that there is little chance of Deltacron emerging and it will soon disappear, like the Beta variant, if it does not spread quickly.


At this stage, there are no signs that Deltacron will supplant Omicron as the dominant variant, he said, adding that Deltacron is regarded by the World Health Organization as a variant being monitored.


Of the 1,981 COVID-19 cases monitored by the Medical Sciences Department between March 12th and 18th, only one Delta case was found, accounting for 0.05%, while the rest were Omicron cases.


Of all the Omicron cases, he said the BA.2 sub variant accounted for 78.5% of Omicron cases, a steady increase from 51% and 67.6% respectively.


Despite more cases of the BA.2 sub variant, he noted that symptoms are not severe.


Dr. Supakit said that random tests for sub variants of Omicron had been conducted on different groups of people, such as medical personnel, those with low CT (cycle threshold value), clusters, overseas travellers and those with severe symptoms.


The findings show that infection rates of the BA.2 variant do not differ much between groups, which means that BA.2 does not cause more fatalities among the infected.

Dozens of suspected COVID 'Deltacron' cases found in Thailand, all recover | 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

[misskit]

Tens of millions under lockdown in China amid rising COVID-19 wave


Residents are locked, welded and even sealed into their own homes and told to rely on online orders of food.

China's latest COVID-19 wave continued to rise on Tuesday, with confirmed and locally transmitted cases in Shanghai rising for the fifth day in a row, as the authorities struggled to contain the highly contagious omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.


Shanghai has been pressing ahead with the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s favored "dynamic zero-COVID" policy, carrying out more than 30 million door-to-door tests.


Officials have turned Shanghai's Zhoupu Hospital into a dedicated COVID-19 facility, a Shanghai resident told RFA.


"Zhoupu Hospital has become an isolation hospital, and everyone has left," he said. "They were given until 12 o'clock to leave, or they would be shut up inside."


An estimated 50 million people had been placed under lockdown in various cities and districts across the country as of last week.


Ji Xiaolong, a resident of Yanlord Garden in Pudong New District, said his residential compound has been locked down for the past four days.


"The iron gates are locked and blocked with metal guardrails, and the iron sheets have been welded together," Ji told RFA. "Nobody in the compound, which is two or three thousand people, is able to leave."


"We have been locked down for four days," he said. "There are foreigners who want to get out, but they can't."

Stretched medical resources
A Shanghai resident surnamed Feng said there are now barriers to people seeking medical attention.


"Shanghai's medical resources are close to collapse," she said. "They're not taking COVID-19 patients at the hospitals now."


"There was an 80-year-old patient with complications and a high fever, which is very dangerous, but the hospital wouldn't take them," Feng said.


"I called the center for disease control and prevention, and they said I wouldn't be able to get them into a hospital."


Meanwhile, tens of millions of people remain under strict lockdown as the local government tries to eliminate an outbreak in the northeastern province of Jilin.


Video footage from Jilin showed truck drivers being isolated in their cabs, or diners isolated on the spot at restaurants or other businesses temporarily requisitioned for quarantine or isolation purposes, including convenience stores, inside private cars, grocery stores, and even hospitals.


A resident of the northeastern port city of Dalian surnamed Liu, said partial lockdowns are also being imposed there, too.


"We are all under lockdown, with seals pasted on the door," Liu told RFA. "The local residential committee members say that we will have to order takeout if we need to buy food."


"Then, they break the seal on your door and deliver the food, before pasting a seal back on again," she said.


Jilin lockdown


In all, 2,281 newly confirmed, locally transmitted cases were reported in China on Monday, compared with 1,947 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said, with the majority clustered in Jilin.


Transportation links in and out of the province have been shut down, as well as intraregional trips, with residents only allowed to travel if given prior approval by the authorities.


Cases in the provincial capital Changchun have also risen for five days straight, and the city authorities have suspended indoor shopping for three days, calling on residents to order online instead.


Meanwhile, police in the northern city of Sanhe are investigating 15 people who failed to submit to mass testing without a legitimate reason, city authorities said.


Government censors also appear to be deleting online comment criticizing the CCP's COVID-19 policy, with financial blogger Liu Haiying's article questioning the economic impact of the zero-COVID policy removed from Weibo on Monday.


Liu, who has more than 340,000 followers, had complained that a two-week lockdown could cost a Chinese city around 32 percent of its GDP growth for the month, pointing to slowing economic growth around the world.


"Almost 100 percent of the economic cost of fighting the epidemic is borne by the private sector," Liu's post said. "Countless families and tens of millions of small and micro enterprises have countless stories of sweat and tears, but there is no place to publish them."


"It's impossible for China to maintain zero-COVID because it needs to have dealings with other countries," he wrote, in an article that garnered more than 2,000 likes before it disappeared.

Tens of millions under lockdown in China amid rising COVID-19 wave — Radio Free Asia

[harrybarracuda]

Deltracron?

Fucking hell, what's next, Optimus Prime?

Deltacron on the move

[harrybarracuda]

The federal government is ditching a requirement for overseas travellers to provide a negative COVID-19 test before they fly to Australia.

Health Minister Greg Hunt said the government would no longer make it a condition of entry that people had to show they had tested negative for the virus before they travelled here.

Pre-departure COVID test for international travellers to Australia ditched - ABC News

[Shutree]

It has taken a while to get to this point. Covid is surging and the 'Zero-Covid' policy simply is not fit for purpose any longer:

China has announced its biggest city-wide lockdown since the Covid outbreak began more than two years ago.

The city of Shanghai will be locked down in two stages over nine days while authorities carry out Covid-19 testing.

The important financial hub has battled a new wave of infections for nearly a month, although case numbers are not high by some international standards.

Authorities had so far resisted locking down the city of some 25 million people to avoid destabilising the economy.

But after Shanghai recorded its highest daily number of cases on Saturday since the early days of the pandemic, authorities appear to have changed course.

The lockdown will happen in two stages, with the eastern side of the city under restrictions from Monday until 1 April, and the western side from 1-5 April.

Shanghai Covid: China announces largest city-wide lockdown - BBC News

[harrybarracuda]

Let 'er rip.

Record 27,560 new Covid cases, 85 more deaths Thursday

Record 27,560 new Covid cases, 85 more deaths Thursday

[Shutree]

Let 'er rip.



Record 27,560 new Covid cases, 85 more deaths Thursday[/h]

From that article: 'Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 3,628,347 Covid-19 cases, ...'

Meanwhile the UK, with a similar population, has recorded over 21 million cases.

This thing has a long way to go in Thailand still.