Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #75

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Meat processing plant in Co Antrim to close temporarily after workers test positive for Covid-19

Ireland

A MEAT PROCESSING plant in Co Antrim is to temporarily close after a number of staff members tested positive for Covid-19.
Cranswick Country Foods in Cullybackey processes pigs.

It is set to close temporarily from Saturday evening for a deep clean and to allow all staff members to be tested for Covid-19, the company has confirmed.

Health Minister Robin Swann described the outbreak as “significant” adding that 35 staff members have tested positive, as well as a smaller number of their contacts.

 

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In Australia, Flu cases over Autumn and Winter have been very low (in comparison to previous years) due to the huge uptake of Flu Injections.

Warnings of a 'really bumpy winter' with coronavirus and flu

Warnings of a 'really bumpy winter' with coronavirus and flu

Clare Sibthorpe, news reporter

4 hrs ago

More medical experts have expressed concern about the danger of a second coronavirus wave worsening in winter with the added threat of the flu and no vaccine yet available.
Academics and scientists say testing, tracing and government messaging has not been sufficient to prepare for a resurgence of the disease in Britain.

Regius Professor of medicine at Oxford University, Sir John Bell, warned of a "really bumpy winter".

"My bet is that we will get a second wave, and the vaccines won't get here in time to stop the second wave," he said during a Royal Society of Medicine webinar.

Echoing these concerns, disease control expert Dr Bharat Pankhania told Sky News he believed the public has been "lulled into a sense of complacency" about the ongoing threat of coronavirus.

"Preparations for winter are not sufficiently in place, as we are nearly in September but there is not enough extensive local testing and contact tracing," the former consultant in communicable disease control said.

"The government is doing things like Eat Out to Help Out and that's all very well but the messaging needs to be stronger around the threat of cases rising in Autumn and Winter and doing more to promote people getting their flu vaccine and meningococcal jabs and still taking social distancing seriously."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance have acknowledged a winter peak is likely.

In an effort to curb a resurgence, Mr Johnson postponed the relaxing of restrictions originally set for 1 August and announced £300m for A&E facilities to cope with the winter peak.

The government has also expanded its flu jab programme to reach 30 million people in England and said it will boost coronavirus testing.

 

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