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[CLKD]

I wonder how the bus Company will manage to run their Fleet if they have drivers 'off sick' in quarantine or were they retired men who were brought back into Service  .  I would have wanted 'scullions B4 I would have considered such a task!

[Kathleen]

Hello ladies

Whatever we think of the Chinese government's handling of the crisis, hat's off to them for building and opening a one thousand bed hospital in eight days.  Nick Knowles and DIY SOS eat your heart out!

Having said all that let's hope the facilities and any specialist care is not actually needed and the Coronavirus departs as quickly as it arrived.

Wishing everyone well.

K.

[CLKD]

Of course there are no building regulations etc. in many countries whereas across the UK hoops have to be jumped through!  So it isn't possible to fast-build new hospitals, prisons or schools here. 

Now the Chinese are asking the UK for equipment supplies. Well nope, sorry - we need to look after our own patients first.  Problem is across the UK, the NHS won't fund people to run the equipment already in place.  Most could be used 24/7 if monies were available to Staff them.  That of course requires people to work night shifts, enough to read and report on the various results ........... but the technology is there.

Were the same drivers used yesterday to bring the next load from France to the North?

[Sparrow]

I don't have any faith in UK building regs.  Remember Grenfell and all the other buildings still with dodgy cladding.  Not to mention no sprinklers.

I thought the government had already offered 20 million??

The drivers previously used are in home quarantine for two weeks.

[sheila99]

And a railway line from London to Birmingham will take us 25 years

[CLKD]

If you are mentioning HS2  then don't.

It isn't scheduled to stop at many stations and is ploughing through 5 Sites of Scientific Interest which the tax payer has been charged for; plus demolition of houses which will never realise anywhere near the asking price .........

So are we to assume that different drivers were used in the coaches yesterday?

[CLKD]

I think China is relying on other countries to supply equipment  but one can be laid on mattresses, one doesn't require beds.  Lots of changes of bed linen will be required for a 'flu like virus and barrier nursing will mean lots of laundry.  Wonder if one was built? 

[CLKD]

A coach firm that transported Britons evacuated from coronavirus-hit Wuhan has defended itself after its drivers were pictured not wearing masks.
Horseman Coaches, based in Reading, took 83 Britons from RAF Brize Norton to a hospital on the Wirral on Friday.

The firm's drivers were featured in the national press sitting next to evacuation staff in protective suits.

The company's director James Horseman said its "heroic" drivers were never in contact with any passengers.

The passengers are being housed in an NHS staff accommodation block at Arrowe Park Hospital, where they have been put in "supported isolation" for 14 days with "all necessary medical attention".


The photos appeared in a number of national newspapers. Speaking to BBC Radio Berkshire, Mr Horseman said: "The person in the hazmat suit was a medic and their role was to be in contact with the passenger should anybody display any symptoms - thankfully nobody did - and it was a precautionary measure.

"Our drivers at no point were going to be in contact with any of the passengers.

"And Public Health England (PHE) have explained to contract this virus from somebody that is displaying symptoms, which they weren't, you would need to be in constant contact with someone for a minimum of 15 minutes."

How long was the journey to the North 

[Sparrow]

Phew,  there is lots and lots of speculation and not much concrete information.

We can play that game until the cows come hope but it won't help.

Personally I am not particularly worried about this virus, and nothing has been written or said so far anywhere , is likely to change that.  It's just a particularly nasty flu bug.

[CLKD]

That's my view on it Shadyglade.  More likely to get D&V 

[ElkWarning]

Case confirmed in Brighton, you know, like I said I was concerned about. Must be that non existent population. Hopefully, this persistent denial of the potential down here won't lead to dire consequences.

[CLKD]

It's a virus which will spread.  Apparently by being coughed over.  Is the person isolated ElkW? 

[Sparrow]

It's someone who has just flown in from 'somewhere in Asia', so not UK infected.

I'm more worried about the rise in racist incidents because of fear caused by scaremongering. 

[CLKD]

There's a newborn baby infected too possibly via the womb, during delivery or breathed over by the already infected mother.  I think that was in China 

[A Chinese newborn has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus just 30 hours after birth, the youngest case recorded so far, state media said.
The baby was born on 2 February in Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus.

The baby's mother tested positive before she gave birth. It is unclear how the disease was transmitted - in the womb, or after birth.
Only a handful of children have come down with the virus, which has killed 565 people and infected 28,018.

All but one of the deaths were in China.]


BBC News - The third person in the UK to be diagnosed with coronavirus did not catch it in mainland China, England's chief medical officer has said.

The patient, who caught the infection elsewhere in Asia, was diagnosed in Brighton, it is understood.

Prof Chris Whitty also said doctors will now test for suspected coronavirus in patients who have recently travelled from a range of Asian countries, which will be specified later.

[ElkWarning]

It's someone who has just flown in from 'somewhere in Asia', so not UK infected.

I'm more worried about the rise in racist incidents because of fear caused by scaremongering.

Don't you find it a little bit odd though, the case happens to be in the only place that was specified to be of concern here. It's one hell of a coincidence don't you think.

And yes, people are going to catch viruses, that's how they spread. But it's absolutely crucial, in the interests of public health, that we have effective infection control measures in place. Luckily, this has now been recognised by both universities.

As for racism, that has nothing to do with infection control.