http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12340085

Beijing back in lockdown after new cluster of covid in a another market

This made me laugh ..,, petition for uk to declare war on nz then immediately surrender so that Jacinda takes power

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12340019

I for one would welcome that, as the halfwits in charge in London, couldn't run a bath, never mind a Country! A Ferret in a suit, could do a better job, than that Clown Boris Johnson Blondey!

that reminds me .... I watched three ferrets getting vasectomies the other day ...

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061281

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.

The first drug proven to cut deaths from Covid-19 is not some new, expensive medicine but an old, cheap-as-chips steroid.

Some very good news of a treatment for those seriously ill with Coronavirus.

dexamethasone is a drug I am very familiar with at the hospital .

the scientific study has not yet been released just a press statement . ..

From that statement it has been reported as showing some treatment benefit to those with severe illness on ventilators where the risk of Severe inflammation is more harmful than the virus . Not seen as having any benefit for those able to breathe on their own .

Will wait with interest for the official study release

Yes it is only a treatment for those seriously ill with the Coronavirus, but these must be the patients at most risk of death from the disease. We also hear on the tv that all our NHS hospitals in the UK have been advised of its use as a treatment against the disease in those circumstances.

A welcome first step on the way to finding more treatments, cures and hopefully a vaccine, and with the vast amount of research taking place around the world these will follow soon.

I think you'll find that there's already a vaccine, but you'll only get access to it if you're important enough, like Boris Johnson and his mates, or Prince Charles. The reason why I say this is Boris Johnson, was on TV, over here on the Tuesday at deaths door apparently with the Coronavirus, but miraculously on the Friday, of the same week he's a picture of health and up and walking about like nothing has happened? Why has everyone just swept that under the carpet? Does it not seem strange, that they say it takes you a while to recover from it, but only 2 days in the case of Boris Johnson?Personally I'm not swallowing that one mate!

Apparently, according to a friend of my younger brother (he used to work for the NHS and it's quite a big network) who was working at the Hospital where Boris was treated, he was given Antibody treatment and it worked very well.

Mate, I know all about the NHS as my wife was a Nurse, up here in Glasgow, before she died. The way he was jumping about on that Friday, he looked like he was at a Rave, coming up on some good E's, to be honest!

Yeah, I'm sure that they made more effort to keep him alive than most other people would have been given .

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/source-beijing-s-big-new-covid-19-outbreak-still-mystery

Beijing now has 137 confirmed cases In six days ( one critically ill person ) they have moved to level 2 of their alert system.

Genome sequencing so far shows a link to the European strain of covid
... mutations have not yet been confirmed but concerns about increased virulence remain .


Large seafood market testing confirms presence of the virus but source not yet identified .

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12340998

New Zealand now has a third case .. another border arrival in quarantine .

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12340835
Australian international borders likely to remain closed till at least 2021 .

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-russia-clinical-trials-covid-vaccine.amp

Russia starts covid vaccine clinical trial ...

Before commencement of the trial researchers had earlier injected themselves with the vaccine as a form of self defence . .. so far ... they are all alive, well and cheerful !!!

Today 69 new cases, 3rd day under a hundred :)
Only 2 hospital admittances and... 0 diseased!

From what I've seen -I don't check daily anymore but did look today- it's going down in most countries, except for India and Brazil.
And the US. Really odd how it doesn't seem to go down there at all. It's been pretty much the same numbers for nearly 3 months now?

Coronavirus: Human trial of new vaccine begins in UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061288

Volunteers have begun being immunised with a new UK coronavirus vaccine.
About 300 people will have the vaccine over the coming weeks, as part of a trial led by Prof Robin Shattock and his colleagues, at Imperial College London.

Experts at Oxford University have already started human trials.

There are more than 120 coronavirus vaccines in early development across the world. Most of these will never get beyond the laboratory. A further 13 are now in clinical trials: five in China, three in the United States, two in the UK, one in Australia, Germany and Russia.

All the vaccine teams are keen to stress that they are not in a race against each other, but against the virus. If there are to be enough doses to protect the world, several vaccine approaches will need to be successful.

Hopefully we will see some success soon in all these clinical trials.

I don't get all this vaccine fuss. So far we've had 9.5 mill cases of which 5.1 million have recovered. Without a vaccine.
3.8 mill are still experiencing mild symptoms.
483.000 have died so far worldwide.
Spanish flu had 30-40 MILLION killed worldwide, most of which withing ONE month! (October). Now THAT would've been something to worry about!

So... why the bleep fuss about a vaccine? The best protection is our own immune system. I don't want a vaccine. Certainly not one that's been cooked up in a lab in a few months time, not properly tested, and that for a disease we know bleep all about!
Total insanity to use that on people.
Unless there's a 2nd wave to come, then maybe. A small maybe. In the meantime they should fine-tune whatever vaccine they cooked up and test it properly, and not on humans yet.

This idiocy and fear has people lose sight of normal regulation for new meds that are to be used on people. There's a reason we don't just use newly cooked up stuff without thoroughly testing them. And even then things can go wrong.

How many people have been confirmed as having immunity to covid and how long does that immunity last ????

Covid is easily spread and capable of mutation ... what if it becomes more virulent ??? We barely have control of it now . Global numbers of infections are escalating not declining

A vaccine for any disease must be a good thing, the world has nearly eradicated Polio, and many other diseases are kept under control because of vaccines, Measles for example which is more contagious than Coronavirus. How important is a vaccine for Coronavirus, well I believe it will enable us all to return to some normality, but more importantly, save millions of lives around the world. Had the UK not implemented a lockdown, scientific forecasts of as many as 200,000 lives would have been lost, and this Pandemic is by no means at an end.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday the last one million cases were reported in just eight days.

so you have to always watch news in tv