Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 4:48 pm I am trying to get back home; Phnom Penh. I am a refugee in London!

I left PP on February 29th thinking it was going to get hit hard and ended up in Mexico, which was ok when I got there and is now in a terrible state. I left in a big hurry when the borders starting closing and headed back to the UK to be 'safe'. However, since my arrival, the UK has now turned into Leper Island with even the Greeks not wanting us (they'll even welcome the Germans and they f***ing hate the Germans!).

It seems I have become the Grim Reaper, the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, bringing disease, death and poverty wherever I go.

If Cambodia has any sense they would bar me for a year...

DaveG wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 3:57 pm I think the excess deaths in such a short period of time freaked Governments out

ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.

“In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s coronavirus contagion.

“The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago,” he told RAI television.

Out of the 53 new #COVID19 cases found in #Thailand over the past two weeks, there are 44 Thais who returned from abroad. This is why the borders remain closed and why repatriated Thais have to go into quarantine for 14 days. ‬

ExPenhMan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:11 am Some good news from the viral epicentre in Italy.

Headline: New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says

ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.

“In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s coronavirus contagion.

“The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago,” he told RAI television.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN2370OQ

Kammekor wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:33 am

ExPenhMan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:11 am Some good news from the viral epicentre in Italy.

Headline: New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says

ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.

“In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s coronavirus contagion.

“The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago,” he told RAI television.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN2370OQ

I don't get why people don't see the writing on the wall. Italy went from winter, into spring, and now summer is coming. They can loosen up a lot, as long as they are careful in late autumn and winter, when the virus will become 'potent' again.

Scientists have discovered a unique mutation to coronavirus in Arizona - and it's a pattern that they've seen before.

One of the 382 samples they collected from coronavirus patients in the state was missing a sizeable segment of genetic material.

In the middle and late stages of the SARS epidemic of 2003, this very same kind of deletion started cropping up in patients around the globe.

It's not just any mutation - the change robs the closely related viruses of one of their weapons against the host's immune response, making the infection weaker.