CCC official site
Newark is a New Jersey city
Chicago
Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Health Authority
Eleven registered factory farms
Wisconsin
Mink deaths, 3,400
Jonathan Van Tam, the deputy chief medical officer
All UK hospitals ordered to isolate new mutation
immediate action
Patients from Denmark must be isolated, treated in specialist centres, sequenced
Cluster 5, 12 cases, (8 + 4)
Passenger planes, ships and lorries carrying freight from Denmark will also not be allowed across the border
Anyone who travelled to Denmark within the last two weeks:
No routine outpatient, ambulatory or primary care
Anyone who needs urgent hospital treatment:
Should be separated from other patients and
managed in strict isolation in a single room with en-suite bathroom facilities
If the person subsequently tests positive for Covid:
Immediately be transferred to a specialised infectious diseases centre
Whole genome sequencing at Colindale
Last 14 days, 300 and 500 arrivals
New coronavirus cases linked to mink farms
Italy, Netherlands and Spain
Mink farming in Britain
Ended in the early noughties
Feral, 112,00
Professor Fiona Mathews, Mammal Society
There’s a chance it might have jumped to cousins of the mink, like otters
We know the virus came from animals, so it would be foolish not to look at whether it is already here
And of course there’s a small chance that it might pose a risk to humans
Free supplies of vitamin D
Scotland and now England
Delivered, 2.2 million over winter from December
Four-month supplies to be delivered directly
Boris Johnson
We are indeed looking at the possible beneficial effects of vitamin D, and … we will be updating the House shortly
He is entirely right that we are indeed looking at the possible beneficial effects of vitamin D
Government expected to commission clinical trials
June, National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice)
Insufficient evidence to recommend that vitamin D protects against the virus
Matt Hancock
I have asked the scientists to look once again at the impact of vitamin D on resistance and immunity.
There has been some updated evidence that has come to light in the past few weeks, and I want to ensure that it is fully taken into account
David Davis
The Scottish Government are sending four months supply of vitamin D to everybody who shielded in Scotland
Given that it is low cost and there is no medical downside, will our Government consider the same approach in England?
Are we over the peak of the second wave?
Over a million reports
13,108 recent swab tests
Overall UK figures starting to fall
Two weeks up to 1st November
New cases, 42,049, down from 43,569
Now
37,132
North of England and Scotland
Daily new cases has fallen in the last week
South East and South West
Daily new caser rising slowly, but continue to be much lower than other regions in the UK
UK R value is 1.0
England, 1.0
Wales, 1.0
Scotland, 0.9
Age
Infections have stopped increasing in most age groups
Modest increases in over 60s
Tim Spector
The worst affected areas have shown the most improvement, but large differences between regions remain
We are two weeks ahead of hospital data and four weeks ahead of most deaths
We urge everyone to respect the restrictions and help get the number of cases down as soon as possible to help the NHS, end the lockdown and get us in good shape for December
App graphics
UK official data
UK, Missing 50% of cases
Professor Mark Woolhouse, Edinburgh
Therefore not self-isolating
Mild or asymptomatic
Symptomatic but genuinely don’t recognise
Having symptoms and actually ignoring them
The idea of Liverpool is to try and find these cases and hopefully … persuade them to self-isolate
