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17 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
India recorded 234,692 new infections in the 24 hrs to Saturday morning, according to health ministry data, the 8th record daily increase in 9 days. Fatalities rose by 1,341 to reach a total of 175,649..but the Indian Gov is accused of GROSS undercounting theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
This is what complacency looks like...

Meanwhile it (as have we, many European countries, the USA, Iran and Brazil) has helped fuel the 3,000,225 deaths and 139,963,964 cases globally. That’s from data released by Johns Hopkins University on Saturday.

Again. An undercount.
India created conditions to drive a dangerous new mutation. It allowed the virus to flourish before suppression
Enough population immunity to put pressure on the virus to get fitter.

It did

Meanwhile complacency created ideal condition for transmission allowing it to flourish
So did we.

So did Brazil.

And global travel means it passes into one country after another.
More On the undercounting issue. Deaths maybe 4 or 5 times more than official numbers.

And also the deliberate restriction of testing.

So those positives today are unlikely to represent the true state of the crisis

Meanwhile Johnson is going to India..not on the #REDLIST
And see how it has spread...altho’ amazingly, states with ongoing elections aren’t on the list.

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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
19 Apr
I want to talk about big holes in our border controls in more detail in the light of these instances from other countries showing how high is the risk is of imported cases from 🇮🇳 being spread onwards.

All these passengers had pre flight negative tests.
1/. In the U.K. a Lateral Flow Test is enough as a pre flight test.

2/. It can be done 3 days before departure. That is a long time when prevalence is high as it is in India. Nearly 30% positivity in Delhi yesterday.

How many slip through that net.

gov.uk/guidance/coron… Image
That was up from 20.22% just three days before on the 15th April.

Even that is scarily high.

No wonder so many are arriving in other airports (eg Toronto/ Vancouver/ Hong Kong) and testing positive after arrival.

3/ At lease they require arrival airport tests. We don’t ImageImage
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
18 Apr
Nearly all of the twice-daily flights between Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport and Toronto Pearson Airport carried passengers infected with COVID-19.

Yes India is not on the U.K. #RedList

torontosun.com/news/local-new…
Since mid February passengers over the age of 5yrs are required to provide a pre flight negative Covid test.

But, like the Delhi-Hong Kong flight this is not stemming the flow. Image
There have been a total@of 106 infected flights landing in Canada since March 4th.

30 originate from Delhi.

Limited data on the extent of the reach of infection but 14 show a a minimum of a 6 row reach.

So more than one case. Image
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
18 Apr
Do watch @BBC 2 Climate Change- Ade- even if you think you are not that interested.

Bangladesh & Bhutan.

It given you a sense of the personal stories. Individual people’s homes & dreams.

Also v interesting re Covid. You can SEE the travel connections- the way people love
Dakar, the capital city is experiencing massive immigration from people migrating to try and avoid the consequences of climate change.

And he visits Bhutan. Roughly the size of Switzerland but 750k people

It is gorgeous.

It isn’t just carbon neutral. It is carbon negative,
I was booked to visit it on a walking holiday c15 years ago.

“if you dropped your camera you’d still have a gorgeous photo”.

But the holiday was cancelled. Not enough people.

It was expensive but I thought it would be special.

I see this programme. I think it would’ve been
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
18 Apr
Here Cameron refers to Crother as “a fellow board member”, something he now says was a mistake

But the FT also refers to a WhatsApp message from Lex Greensill intended for Scott Morrison but sent to another number in error. In that Greensill ALSO says Cameron is on their board Image
ft.com/content/0cffbf…
Here is the full text of that message. Seeking access to electronic staff records, doctors, nurses (admin? Management?) data and also Allocate - the staff rostering IT system.

We’re staff consulted about this, he makes it sound as if Simon Stevens amongst others was v keen
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
17 Apr
India looked like it had beaten Covid, but cases are now skyrocketing. What changed?

“Loved ones wailing outside hospitals, ambulances queued up with patients, crematoria and graveyards drowning in dead bodies, failed resuscitations” independent.co.uk/asia/india/cov…
Families scrambling for beds, plasma, and even basic medical supplies such as oxygen, stretchers and ventilators: these are common scenes witnessed across India.

Families Sending out pleas on Twitter for oxygen, drugs, beds.

What changed from just three months ago?
Maharashtra was painted as an outlier a few weeks ago.

Now hospitals out of capacity. Reports of doctors not even able to find beds for their own.

No longer. It is worse now than at any point last year.

What has changed?
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
17 Apr
Covid-19 appears to have jumped between neighbouring rooms in hotel quarantine in Sydney after seven cases of people arriving from different countries were revealed to have the same viral sequence.

Can Governments and @WHO stop being dicks. It’s airborne theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
No. I’m not saying it is EXCLUSIVELY airborne.

Just that the accumulating evidence is that it is STRONGLY airborne.

And when so called academics seek to say otherwise please pause before you reply to this.
Because pretending the preponderance of evidence suggests otherwise is also dickheaded.

I really listened hard to the spiel back in March/ April/ May 2020.

On the whole believed the fomite/ droplet stuff.

But played safe, wore a mask but wondered if I WAS BEING a the dickhead.
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