Coronavirus Pandemic

[PFVA]

Actually both the Corvid and Covid are a kind of cute. I suppose the Corvid is a kind of crow.

In the meantime in Lombardy, Italy :

Officials in northern Italy ordered schools, public buildings, restaurants and coffee shops to close. The emergency measures come as a cluster of new infections emerged, including some who had not been to China.

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-italy ... a-52467865

Closing cafés is a serious problem. I can imagine if they have to do it here. So far we have no cases.

[gilesgoat]

Actually both the Corvid and Covid are a kind of cute. I suppose the Corvid is a kind of crow.

In the meantime in Lombardy, Italy :

Officials in northern Italy ordered schools, public buildings, restaurants and coffee shops to close. The emergency measures come as a cluster of new infections emerged, including some who had not been to China.

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-italy ... a-52467865

Closing cafés is a serious problem. I can imagine if they have to do it here. So far we have no cases.

16 cases so far it seems, 14 in Lombardia and 2 in Veneto, one of them is in really critical conditions in intensive therapy

What seems to be a bit worrying about those 2 in Veneto is that "they did not go to China and/or had contact with anyone Chinese" and they said they were not "a suspect case" so now the question is where/how did they get it ?

According to this : https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/ ... 249192220/

( La Repubblica is a national reputable newspaper )

the are isolating 30,000 persons.

[KlaxonCow]

Corvid

Whoops. An unintentionally amusing typo there.

[F-ZeroOne]

Its just occurred to me that back when there was an Ebola outbreak a few years ago, a certain leader of a now largely defunct British single-issue political party which had some influence on referendum results was stating that victims of "life-threatening diseases" should not be allowed into the UK for treatment.

I presume this politician is now going to prove that he wasn't being racist by demanding the same applies to the British passengers from the cruise ship that was quarantined in Japan?

[merman]

Its just occurred to me that back when there was an Ebola outbreak a few years ago, a certain leader of a now largely defunct British single-issue political party which had some influence on referendum results was stating that victims of "life-threatening diseases" should not be allowed into the UK for treatment.

I presume this politician is now going to prove that he wasn't being racist by demanding the same applies to the British passengers from the cruise ship that was quarantined in Japan?

Of course not. Brits abroad never get sick or commit crimes.

[PFVA]

What seems to be a bit worrying about those 2 in Veneto is that "they did not go to China and/or had contact with anyone Chinese" and they said they were not "a suspect case" so now the question is where/how did they get it ?

According to this : https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/ ... 249192220/

( La Repubblica is a national reputable newspaper )

the are isolating 30,000 persons.

From what they are saying now one of them worked for a multinational and had contact with a co-worker who had returned from China but didn't show any symptoms. They had lunch together at a café. Apparently people can be carriers but not show symptoms. I think that happens with the flu too.

The telly news on TV5 showed the name of the multinational, the café where they had lunch, etc, etc, but i don't remember the names

[gilesgoat]

Sad little home news mum is NOT going to the carnival with my brother's kids because they all fear the virus and "want to avoid crowds"

Can't blame them really, there's been a few cases in Dolo that is NOT that far away from our region

[edit] - latest news from Italy, 60 cases of virus and 2 dead people now, the region is in "alert state".

[everklear]

Sad little home news mum is NOT going to the carnival with my brother's kids because they all fear the virus and "want to avoid crowds"

Can't blame them really, there's been a few cases in Dolo that is NOT that far away from our region

[edit] - latest news from Italy, 60 cases of virus and 2 dead people now, the region is in "alert state".

That's bad news. I hope they can successfully isolate the people who are sick and get them the treatment they need.

[gilesgoat]

It's getting worse, now the infected people are 76 ...

[gilesgoat]

It's getting worse, now the infected people are 76 ...

[edit] - now La Repubblica says the infected cases is over 100, 89 alone in Lombardia, 2 deaths and the virus now is reaching Venice.

Stopped all school trips, 11 towns locked down ( where the contagion has been ) , 50,000 people "quarantined".

Government is discussing emergency plans.

[gilesgoat]

It's getting worse .. now 132 cases and they are thinking in stopping Venice Carnival for safety reasons ...

[gilesgoat]

.. update .. 150 people infected .. 3 dead people now .. they got the point they are "seriously worried about Venice" ( where I am , that is 120 KM away from it but there's lot of people moving in/out from there to here ) .

For safety measure now they closed the University in Trieste, then the SISSA, then they are now thinking about closing the schools.

It's .. getting "a bit more serious"

[PFVA]

Your mother had already made the right decision, and the authorities are doing it too by closing Carnival earlier.

I saw on the map that so far there is no cases in Trieste. Positive thoughts for your family.

[gilesgoat]

Your mother had already made the right decision, and the authorities are doing it too by closing Carnival earlier.

I saw on the map that so far there is no cases in Trieste. Positive thoughts for your family.

Thanks *HUGS* "they are closing everything"

It keeps getting updating hour by hour, they put an order to close schools, universities, museums, churches and other things, fundamentally they want to avoid "assembly of people" ..

149 confirmed cases so far so the news says but what is puzzling is that they cannot quite figure it out HOW those people been infected.

[gilesgoat]

Fook me .. I had a final email check before to go bed, I see this email coming from my doctor in Italy :


Buonasera


Oggi abbiamo avuto incontro oggi con assessore Riccardi in Protezione Civile a Palmanova
Bisogna contenere il contagio, pertanto si consiglia di rimanere a casa! Evitare ospedali, studi medici, cinema


In caso di febbre superiore a 37,5 con sintomi respiratori: tosse, difficoltà respiro, mal di gola...raffreddore, RIMANERE A CASA e contattare 112 o 118 o 1500 o il vostro medico: cioè la sottoscritta
Non venite in studio!!!
Telefonatemi prima di venire


Il virus non è pericoloso ma è molto contagioso!

( and some else *snip* )


Basically says they had a meeting with the "Civil Protection" and they want people to avoid getting infected and/or spread the infection.

They recommend to stay home, avoid hospitals, doctor studios and cinemas.

In case of fever over 37.5C STAY AT HOME, don't come in the studio, contact those given numbers.

They add also "the virus is not very dangerous but very contagious".

So "there's some concern" if they send emails like those, this is the first time I see anything like that coming from the doctor, there were other lines saying basically "do what you can not to spread it around" and "if you get really sick stay home and don't go anywhere call those special numbers, special people will come to pick you up".

So yeah .. there's some concern as you can see.