Italy have announced 3,951 new cases and 570 new deaths

Both down on yesterda.

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

Something that bothers me, is when Italy was having 800+ dying per day, it was all across the media as a disaster, Sky were running special broadcasts etc about the unfolding disaster.
We are now having numbers of deaths in the high 900’s and there is nowhere near as much mention in the media. All the talk is of Boris / the end of the lockdown.

I find it odd that the deaths in our own nation get less coverage?

Originally Posted by: John p 

Thanks David...your contributions/observations will be invaluable there 

There will inevitably be overlaps between both threads, but I hope some of the more general observations moved there will make for better continuity in the running daily thread.

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

Something that bothers me, is when Italy was having 800+ dying per day, it was all across the media as a disaster, Sky were running special broadcasts etc about the unfolding disaster.
We are now having numbers of deaths in the high 900’s and there is nowhere near as much mention in the media. All the talk is of Boris / the end of the lockdown.

I find it odd that the deaths in our own nation get less coverage?

Originally Posted by: John p 

The total deaths for yesterday seems to have been updated to 980?

Originally Posted by: John p 

[quote=John p;1203348]Something that bothers me, is when Italy was having 800+ dying per day, it was all across the media as a disaster, Sky were running special broadcasts etc about the unfolding disaster.
We are now having numbers of deaths in the high 900’s and there is nowhere near as much mention in the media. All the talk is of Boris / the end of the lockdown.

I find it odd that the deaths in our own nation get less coverage?[/quote

Agree. I find it odd too. I think someone said today's death count in the UK was higher than has been reached in Italy. 

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Agree. I find it odd too. I think someone said today's death count in the UK was higher than has been reached in Italy. 

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

I mentioned in one of the previous threads that a cousin of mine in her mid-50s unfortunately contracted Covid-19 recently and has been in hospital being treated for it for just over a week now. Thankfully, it seems she is now recovering nicely and may be allowed to leave hospital this weekend, all being well.

Originally Posted by: David M Porter 

Secondly, Cambridge University research suggests there are now three main strains of the virus, with the third variant not being seen in China.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/10/uks-coronavirus-epidemic-may-have-seeded-outside-china-new-study/

Using ‘phylogenetic’ techniques that are usually reserved for tracing the origins of our early human ancestors, researchers at Cambridge University discovered that there have been three distinct variants of coronavirus since the disease emerged in Wuhan in December.
Dubbed A, B and C, the three types have followed different paths throughout the globe, possibly because they have mutated to be better at infecting specific populations
Variant ‘A’ is the ancestral strain and is most closely related to the coronavirus found in bats and pangolins. Scientists believe the disease jumped into humans from one of the creatures at Wuhan Market.
The second type ‘B’ - which is most common in mainland China - is derived from ‘A’, and separated by two mutations, while ‘C’ is in turn a ‘daughter’ of ‘B’.
But interestingly it is type ‘C’ that initially infected Britain and Europe and that variant is not found in mainland China at all.

Originally Posted by: Retron 

That's good to know.

👍

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 

That data is widely across the media today.

They've suddenly woken up to the fact not all deaths are in the 24hr period something we've known for the last 3 weeks.

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

Interesting reading more about it in the link below.

https://www.genengnews.com/news/spread-of-early-coronavirus-lineages-reconstructed-using-genetic-network-technique/

Originally Posted by: JHutch 

That was fascinating, thanks.

Several statements caught my eye: the large number of mutations already seen; the infection route; and this comment "While the latest work has yet to be peer-reviewed, Forster says the results suggest that the first infection and spread among humans of COVID-19 occurred between mid-September and early December."

The first jump to humans potentially as early as mid-September? Wow.

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 

But interestingly it is type ‘C’ that initially infected Britain and Europe and that variant is not found in mainland China at all.

Originally Posted by: Retron 

Unbelieveable!

Police in Rochdale approached a man that was causing a disturbance and explained to him why he he shouldn't be flouting the lockdown. He then got violent with police and bitten one of them on the arm before saying he had COVID-19.

A man is in custody after an officer was badly bitten in #Rochdale last night (Thursday 9 April 2020). The 21-year-old officer was attending reports of a disturbance when she was assaulted. Read more here - https://t.co/6gFgiltDnC pic.twitter.com/Zv2Y5RL9d9

— Greater Manchester Police #StayHomeSaveLives (@gmpolice) April 10, 2020

Originally Posted by: Bolty