COVID LATEST SURGE IN SCOTLAND----HEAVILY UNDER-REPORTED

                          25/03/22 NOW ONE IN 11   MY FRIENDS ARE CATCHING IT AROUND ME   

                                                                        

          

                                    

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                                                May themselves be serious underestimates !!

                                                                          BBC REPORT

Just a few weeks ago it seemed Covid was at last losing its grip on our lives.

Under the Scottish government's strategic framework for managing Covid, Monday 21 March was meant to be the date when the last legal restrictions would be lifted.

Now, against a backdrop of surging cases, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that face coverings will be required in shops and on public transport until early April.

NEW RECORD: ONE IN FOURTEEN SCOTS HAD COVID LAST WEEK

BBC (18/03/22)

One in 14 people in Scotland had Covid last week, a new record high, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The latest weekly ONS sampling suggest 376,300 Scots had the virus in the week ending 12 March, and the highest rate in the UK.

The latest surge is believed to be driven the more infectious BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron.

The reproduction or R number in Scotland has also risen, and is now thought to be between 1 and 1.3.

The R number is a measure of how many other people will have the virus passed on to them by a single infected person.

                                                                                      

The number of people in hospital with Covid now stands at 2,050, only just below the peak of 2,053 seen in January 2021.

The ONS weekly survey is increasingly relied upon for monitoring the spread of Covid because of suspicions that not all positive lateral flow tests are reported.

For the second week in a row, the ONS data indicates the highest level of Covid in Scotland since sampling began in autumn 2020, with the percentage infected at 7.15%, up from 5.7% last week.

Scotland's record rates of Covid are being driven by a new variant of Omicron, the chief medical officer has said.

Professor Sir Gregor Smith said about 85% of cases in Scotland were thought to be the BA.2 variant.

The World Health Organisation has said BA.2 is more transmissible than the original BA.1 Omicron strain, which emerged in Scotland in December.

However there is no evidence to suggest it is any more severe.

                                            COVID EUGENICS ALERT (WESTMINSTER)

    There are certainly eugenicists ( e.g. Toby Young and maybe Boris Johnson, see TORY EUGENICISTS) who may be orchestrating a eugenics program out of Westminster by encouraging the COVID restrictions to be raised too early, and thereby cruelly discriminating against our sick, elderly, and vulnerable, many of whom think that it is now safe to go out unprotected, and many of whom suffer from pre-conditions.

 Unfortunately, Galtonian Eugenics (term coined in 1883) is still rife nowadays e.g. the stuff coming out of Trinity College Cambridge relating to the mistreatment of our autistic children, See EUGENICS, CRUELTY AND AUTISM