Nearly all of the twice-daily flights between Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport and Toronto Pearson Airport carried passengers infected with COVID-19.
Worth remembering that in Jan a very large seroprevalence study suggested that antibodies had been detected in 56.13% of the population of Delhi that is being absolutely swamped with Covid now.
So either that was an overestimate/there’s a lot of reinfection or what?
Whilst there is reason to be optimistic that vaccinations will take the worst edges off even new variants it is also reasonable to be cautious because we do not actually know.
And even mild to moderate disease can cause significant illness in a good % of people.
I’m a fan of being cautious whilst we find out; curtail the possibility of what is occurring in India occurring here as far as poss whilst retaining some optimism in the way good vaccinations pump prime immunity
Always better to be several steps up the ladder than at the bottom
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.
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
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
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.
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.