Italy seems hard hit but Italians are very affectionate people. Lots of touching. Germans and Brits not so much. It could however hit the refugee populations hard.
I lobbied here at work for sending everyone home who can work from home. There are lots of us who do it already. By sending them home, you lessen the chances of infection going through the building/university. Although it doesn’t pertain to us so much, some people can’t work from home. Every body you take out of the building reduces the possibility of a major problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/11/coronavirus-update-live-news-uk-health-minister-italy-lockdown-australia-us-china-stock-markets-outbreak-latest-updates List of UK updates.
Formula One team case. Wonder if this is in any way related to the motorcycle race in the US at the Formula One track in TX? Cars not motorcycles but whatever.
MP Nadine Dorries and one of her members of staff tested positive. The York MP Rachael Maskell has confirmed that she has been advised to self-isolate after having a meeting with Nadine Dorries There are no plans to test any UK ministers, including Boris Johnson
Spain has confirmed 2,002 cases and 47 deaths. Half the infected are in the Madrid region, where 31 people have died.
A businessman from Kent says he and his son have been waiting nine days for a coronavirus test after getting a cough following a trip to northern Italy. Phillip Meyer, 48, said he was told by the 111 service on 2 March that he and his 12-year-old son needed to be tested.
We are testing between 1,000 and 2,000 people a day in the UK, so clearly there is a bottleneck. If in South Korea they test 15,000 a day, why can’t we do that here?” (Psst, USA is failing miserably)
“When the virus is out there, the population has no immunity and no therapy exists, then 60% to 70% of the population will be infected,” the German chancellor told a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday morning.
E3, the world’s largest video game convention, has reportedly been cancelled almost three months ahead of the conference’s first day.
The coronavirus death toll in Iran has jumped to 354, out of a total of 9,000 cases.
That represents a mortality rate of nearly 4%. As the mortality rate for the virus is thought to be between 1% to 2%, there are likely to be more unknown cases in Iran.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/london-have-coronavirus-cases-detected/
“London has seen the most cases of coronavirus of any region in the UK, with Kensington and Chelsea the worst affected local authority in the capital... And the UK could be facing a similar trajectory as Italy, according to early estimates of the spread.”
See chart at link for numbers and locations.