Boris Johnson to address nation today after emergency cabinet meeting on coronavirus

[Neo]

Boris Johnson will address the nation after an emergency cabinet meeting this afternoon amid fears of a third lockdown.
The Prime Minister has come under intense pressure this week over his 'Christmas bubbles' as Covid-19 rates soar in parts of the UK, with the country said to be on a "knife edge".
He will hold a briefing at 4pm today from Downing Street alongside chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty and chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, Number 10 has confirmed.
It follows grim warnings about a new highly-contagious strain of the virus which has sparked speculation that a third national lockdown could be just days away.
Prof Whitty today said urgent work is underway to confirm whether the new strain is more deadly

Ministers met yesterday to decide how the mutant strain, which has ripped through London, Kent and Essex, could be controlled.
Medics warn that the new strain is 50% more contagious than previous Covid-19 cases.
In a statement today Prof Whitty said: "As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant of Covid-19 through Public Health England's genomic surveillance.
"As a result of the rapid spread of the new variant, preliminary modelling data and rapidly rising incidence rates in the South East, the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) now consider that the new strain can spread more quickly
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...gency-23192487

[Neo]

Millions more people in England are entering the toughest coronavirus restrictions this weekend amid fears a new variant is accelerating the spread of the disease.
Boris Johnson held an unscheduled meeting of ministers on Friday night amid mounting concern about the threat posed by the mutant strain.
Scientists familiar with the new variant say it is spreading fastest in southeast England.
What is the new variant and why does it pose a threat?
It has been named VUI — 202012/01 — the first variant under investigation in December.
Public Health England (PHE) said that, as of December 13, 1,108 cases with this new variant had been identified, predominantly in southeast England, although that figure is understood to have risen since then.
PHE believes this new variant includes a mutation in the spike protein and that changes in this part of the spike protein may result in the virus becoming more infectious and spreading more easily between people.
What makes this new variant potentially so significant?
Professor Sir Mark Walport — a member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) — said there was a real possibility that it could have a “transmission advantage”.
“What happens with viruses is they do naturally mutate all the time and the ones that are likely to do well are the ones that increase transmission,” he said. “We know that this is a new variant, it has been seen in other countries but it seems to be quite widespread which suggests that it has got a transmission advantage.”
There have been many mutations in the virus since it emerged in 2019.
This is to be expected — SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus and these viruses mutate and change. But this variant has sparked particular concern because it appears to be speeding up the spread of the virus.
“Scientists are working extremely hard to work out what is going on,” said Walport. “But it does definitely seem possible that this transmits more easily. It will make the social-distancing even more critical.”
Do we know for definite that the new variant is accelerating the spread of the virus?
No. Ewan Birney, deputy director general of European Molecular Biology Laboratory, said the new variant had been growing “very strongly in the south of England” but it was not possible to say definitively that it was transmitting faster than others or whether it was because the number of cases in general was growing.
However, he added that most scientists “think it is going faster — that it really is a property of the virus”.

[ruthless terrier]

you can run from a virus .. but you can't hide. shutdowns or not .. eventually it will touch every human on the planet. that's the nature of the beast.

[Madison]

Ah .......that covid hoax
the World is getting
more and more retard and insane /mental illness with that stupidity
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

They all have to get over it!

[Big Dummy]

Ah .......that covid hoax
the World is getting
more and more retard and insane /mental illness with that stupidity
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

They all have to get over it!

We need to rename the virus. The Totalitarian Virus would be the appropriate name. All it really spreads is totalitarian governments where ever it goes.

[Neo]

Ah .......that covid hoax
the World is getting
more and more retard and insane /mental illness with that stupidity
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

They all have to get over it!

Ahhh you live in Quebec.


Population 8.57million
The population of Quebec and the size of Quebec against a modern industrial country doesn’t even register a blip. Citizens of Quebec seem to be living in a cluster then spread out living in remote cabins and houses. Nothing like a modern country.
Your demographics show this especially in that picture I provided.

Of course to you Quebec hasn’t suffered, you are living in a bubble, you do not understand the seriousness of the virus evolving.
Sorry mate you are talking out of your well formed arse!

[Big Dummy]

Ahhh you live in Quebec.


Population 8.57million
The population of Quebec and the size of Quebec against a modern industrial country doesn’t even register a blip. Citizens of Quebec seem to be living in a cluster then spread out living in remote cabins and houses. Nothing like a modern country.
Your demographics show this especially in that picture I provided.

Of course to you Quebec hasn’t suffered, you are living in a bubble, you do not understand the seriousness of the virus evolving.
Sorry mate you are talking out of your well formed arse!

Your mates kept importing Africans into an already overpopulated island. Why? You made your own bed now lay in it.

[nonsqtr]

Does the vaccine protect you from the new strain?

[Neo]

Your mates kept importing Africans into an already overpopulated island. Why? You made your own bed now lay in it.

I cannot see the relevance of your statement to what I posted.

My post clearly shows Quebec is scarcely populated and people like Madison are living in community bubbles, the virus isn’t effecting her shire/province like a European country because of the low density of population.

[Neo]

Does the vaccine protect you from the new strain?

As from the new Government update by Boris and his scientific advisers the vaccine works against this new highly contagious strain.
It’s been said the virus is evolving and Porton Down research facility is continuously looking at the evolving virus.