The New Normal

06/12/2020

Pogba on how Covid-19 had affected him: "I get tired very fast and I’m out of breath really fast. First game of the season, I couldn’t run. It took me a long time to get back to my fitness and to get back physically good."

Paul Pogba has revealed the debilitating effect that contracting Covid-19 had on his fitness.

05/12/2020

Coronavirus Updates:
- Biden health team to be announced next week.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said today that Biden asked him to be the administration’s chief medical advisor. He said yes “on the spot”.
- San Francisco Bay Area Issues Strict Stay-at-Home Order
- Cases surge in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, often exceeding the scale of the spring outbreak.
-The C.D.C. urges Americans to wear face masks outside the home.
- The New York Young Republican Club held a secret gala, despite coronavirus concerns.
- U.K. Will Start Immunizing People Against COVID-19 On Tuesday, Officials Say
- Canada doubles Moderna vaccine order, daily COVID-19 cases could top 10,000 by January
- Bali struggles with ‘COVID-poor’ as Indonesian cases hit record
- South Korea weighs tougher curbs as COVID-19 cases hit 9-month high
- Japan To Give Free COVID-19 Vaccine To All Its Residents

04/12/2020

Vietnam: Flight attendant faces criminal charge for flouting quarantine rules, spreading infection

- 100,000 students asked to stay home as universities deal with fresh Covid-19 outbreak

"Flight attendant faces criminal charge for flouting quarantine rules, spreading infection

The HCMC police on Thursday launched a criminal investigation of the Vietnam Airlines flight attendant who breached Covid-19 quarantine protocols and infected at least three others.

The 28-year-old, who has been suspended and faces possible dismissal, could be charged with "spreading dangerous infectious diseases in human", the police said at a press conference on Thursday.

It carries a jail term of up to 12 years. This is the first time that flouting Covid-19 prevention regulations is being treated as a crime, they said, pointing out that in the past people were let off with fines.

The flight attendant had returned to Vietnam from Japan on November 14 and was quarantined for four days at a facility managed by Vietnam Airlines in HCMC's Tan Binh District.

After two tests showed he was negative for the coronavirus, he was let go but told to isolate himself at home.

But he came into contact with his mother and two friends, including an English language teacher who stayed with him for a few days.

On November 29, 15 days after he returned from Japan, he tested positive for the virus, and the next day the teacher did too. The latter had meanwhile spread the virus to a nephew and a student of his.

The flight attendant told authorities he had left home on Bach Dang Street in Tan Binh District at noon on November 21 to eat on Le Van Sy Street in Phu Nhuan District.

He then visited Hutech University in Binh Thanh District on November 22.

The teacher’s diagnosis on Monday ended Vietnam’s 88-day streak of no local transmission.

Under Covid-19 prevention protocols, flight crews must isolate themselves on returning to Vietnam. But the flight attendant went to another quarantine area and contracted the virus from another crew member who had returned from Romania.

Two Vietnam Airlines isolation facilities in HCMC have since been shut down, forcing 61 employees to be quarantined in two hotels. The carrier on Wednesday also issued a public apology.

Following the incident, the Ministry of Transport on Tuesday said airlines whose crews flout Covid-19 quarantine rules and transmit the infection would not be allowed to operate international flights.

Hanoi and HCMC also proposed scrapping preferential quarantine regulations for aviation staff, meaning flight crew members returning from abroad should instead be sent to centralized quarantine facilities for the usual 14-day isolation. Currently, flight attendants are allowed short-term quarantine to ensure staff availability for flights.

Vietnam has had 1,358 Covid-19 cases so far, 119 still active. Thirty five have succumbed to the disease, many of them elderly patients with underlying conditions like diabetes or kidney failure."

Total flight attendant cluster count so far: 4. 3 out of 4 patients had complicated travel history, involving contacts in 12 major universities, 1 very crowded national-level hospital that specializes in traffic accident cases, 8 schools from elementary level to high school level, and several eateries. 170 000 students have had to stay home. 6000 teachers have been put on temporary break. 2200 F1 and F2 have been taken samples so far. Repatriarion fights for overseas citizens have been delayed until the domestic outbreak is under control.

04/12/2020

The Rachel Maddow Show
U.S Hospitalizations continue record-breaking surge

04/12/2020

Coronavirus Updates:
- More Americans died from COVID-19 yesterday than the number of people killed on 9/11
- Obama, Bush, Clinton volunteer to get COVID-19 vaccine on camera
- Βiden says he will ask Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days he's in office
- Anthony Fauci to meet with Joe Βiden's Covid transition team for first time
- As the U.K. claims bragging rights for the best vaccine regulators (yes, really), U.S. officials beg to differ.
- California will impose stay-at-home orders in areas where intensive care units are close to capacity.
- U.S. virus deaths surpass the spring peak as the country reports more than 14 million cases.
- N.Y.C. surpasses a positive test rate last seen at the end of May.
- Facebook says it will remove coronavirus vaccine misinformation.
- Moderna’s vaccine provides protection against Covid-19 for at least three months, a study finds.
- A Hawaii couple were arrested and charged with reckless endangerment after they took a flight back home from San Francisco, despite knowing they had tested positive for the coronavirus infected, the police say.

25/11/2020

The world's largest maker of latex gloves will shut more than half of its factories after almost 2,500 employees tested positive for coronavirus

Nearly 5,800 workers have been screened so far with 2,453 testing positive, it said.

Top Glove operates 41 factories in Malaysia with many of its workers coming from Nepal and living in crowded dormitory complexes.

The cluster contributed to a record daily high of 2,188 cases nationwide, bringing Malaysia’s total cases to 58,847. The cluster in the Klang area is currently the most active in the country with 4,036 cases.

Top Glove says it produces about 90 billion rubber gloves a year, about one quarter of the world’s supply, and exports to 195 countries. It has seen profits soar amid rising demand for its products due to the pandemic.|

Migrant worker dormitories... they accounted for 95% of Singapore's cases, and a large fraction of cases in the Middle East as well. These people work together and then live together in barracks-like conditions, a dozen or more men in a room with bunk beds and little else, and shared bathroom facilities.

24/11/2020

Melania Trump is once again working her “ass off at the Christmas stuff.”

Who could forget Melania’s “war on Christmas”....

Since the The Christmas tree arrived at the White House today- What better time to kick off the festive season with my favorite Melania Trump fck Christmas video...Christmas tree

24/11/2020

Every U.S. state, except Hawaii, is now classified as having "uncontrolled spread" of COVID-19, according to Covidexitstrategy

- The US has recorded over 3 million Covid-19 infections already in November, accounting for more than a quarter of its cases since the pandemic began.
- The first Americans to receive a Covid-19 vaccine could be immunized as early as the second week of December, the White House vaccine chief said.
- Oxford University vaccine shows 70% protection
- A Vaccine Won’t End the Pandemic in Rural America: COVID-19 Could Linger for Years—Just as Influenza Did a Century Ago
- The ‘safest bet’ for some families is to cancel Christmas gatherings, says WHO

23/11/2020

Chaotic scenes were filmed at Shanghai Pudong Airport after several workers tested positive for coronavirus.

In footage shared online, people in hazmat suits can be seen trying to herd huge crowds who do not appear to be cooperating.

Someone tested positive for COVID-19 at a working cargo terminal. Now everyone who is lucky enough to be at the airport at this time will be tested.

Plans for mass testing sparked mayhem, with workers fearing a 14 day quarantine.

23/11/2020

23/11/2020