{"id":33915,"date":"2020-10-29T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=33915"},"modified":"2020-10-29T07:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:39:49","slug":"british-covid-propaganda-and-prevarication-campaign-goes-full-bore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=33915","title":{"rendered":"British Covid Propaganda and Prevarication Campaign Goes Full Bore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Covid-19: Nearly 100,000 catching virus every day – study<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By James Gallagher
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Nearly 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in England, a major analysis suggests.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The study, by Imperial College London, says the pace of the epidemic is accelerating and estimates the number of people infected is now doubling every nine days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The authors say we are at a “critical stage” and “something has to change”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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France and Germany have turned to forms of lockdown<\/a>\u00a0to control the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to “try to avoid having a national blanket approach” to coronavirus restrictions in England, where\u00a0a regional three-tier alert system<\/a>\u00a0is in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We don’t have a plan, today, to do a full national lockdown,” he said, adding such a move “would be destructive to people’s lives and livelihoods and broader health and wellbeing”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A national “firebreak” lockdown is ongoing in Wales, while Northern Ireland has tightened restrictions, including closing schools, and Scotland\u00a0will later confirm details<\/a>\u00a0of its new tiered alert system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Labour’s shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to hold a news conference to outline “steps he will now take to get control of the virus and save lives”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Experts are warning that we are fast approaching the peak in infections seen in the spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The React-1 study is highly influential because it is the most up-to-date assessment of Covid-19 in the country, with the last swabs taken only on Sunday and nearly 86,000 volunteers taking part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A further 24,701 new coronavirus cases were reported on Thursday – but the Imperial College study randomly tests asymptomatic people to estimate the number of overall new infections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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