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What I find particularly staggering is that 61 people on a flight from SA tested positive for Covid on arrival in Amsterdam. 61 people. Clearly either people aren't testing before travelling or the tests aren't working, either way the ease with which Covid is being spread through international travel is a farce.
Or they are presenting fake certificates, seen an uptake in amount of fake Dutch vaccine certificates in the last week including a few sites claiming they can fake the Dutch QR code that shows you’ve been vaccinated.
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The Omicron Variant on 10:04 - Nov 27 with 1210 views
Did see a Tweet yesterday from an epidemiologist that if you're a country with a high infection rate, it's far more likely for Omicron to take hold and spread like wildfire if it gets in.
*Looks at yesterday's UK data*
Ah.
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They should have called it Nigel.... on 11:00 - Nov 27 with 1160 views
Passengers travelling from Cape Town to Manchester via Amsterdam told the BBC that they were held on the tarmac at Schiphol Airport in the Dutch capital for four hours, before eventually disembarking.
Presumably just to make sure the virus had time to infect everyone on board.
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They should have called it Nigel.... on 11:26 - Nov 27 with 1123 views
They do say it’s a quick spreader, so maybe only one had it when they boarded 🤷ðŸ½â€â™‚ï¸
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It wasn’t all on the same flight
"600 passengers arrived in the Netherlands yesterday from South Africa • all have been tested, 61 of them are positive for #Covid • Variant still unknown (fear of having #Omicron)"
There was no testing *at Heathrow* of the flights that arrived yesterday morning from SA. https://t.co/5uKfKjFCZx
The Omicron Variant on 12:37 - Nov 27 by ElderGrizzly
It wasn’t all on the same flight
"600 passengers arrived in the Netherlands yesterday from South Africa • all have been tested, 61 of them are positive for #Covid • Variant still unknown (fear of having #Omicron)"
There was no testing *at Heathrow* of the flights that arrived yesterday morning from SA. https://t.co/5uKfKjFCZx
The Omicron Variant on 12:37 - Nov 27 by ElderGrizzly
It wasn’t all on the same flight
"600 passengers arrived in the Netherlands yesterday from South Africa • all have been tested, 61 of them are positive for #Covid • Variant still unknown (fear of having #Omicron)"
There was no testing *at Heathrow* of the flights that arrived yesterday morning from SA. https://t.co/5uKfKjFCZx
The Omicron Variant on 17:15 - Nov 27 by StokieBlue
Mask wearing should never have been relaxed in the first place so that's good news at least.
SB
They have only asked people to be more vigilant with mask wearing in shops and on transport.
What amazed me about today’s press conference is the fact that they couldn’t even manage to get the slides right. How much did they spend on the new press room.
The Omicron Variant on 17:20 - Nov 27 by Pinewoodblue
They have only asked people to be more vigilant with mask wearing in shops and on transport.
What amazed me about today’s press conference is the fact that they couldn’t even manage to get the slides right. How much did they spend on the new press room.
To be honest Boris was so poor at delivering his speech I wasn't entirely sure what he was trying to say.
SB
Edit: He's clarified it now - people will have to wear masks in shops and on public transport - it's not a "request"
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The Omicron Variant on 17:22 - Nov 27 with 869 views
The Omicron Variant on 17:14 - Nov 27 by ElderGrizzly
Indeed. About 4 times positivity rate of Delta.
Why Johnson has just enacted sort of a Plan B. Masks back and PCR tests for all travellers into UK
Interestingly, Omicron produces a strange result in PCR tests which means they can track it without having to do the full genetic analysis they usually have to do.
SB
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The Omicron Variant on 17:26 - Nov 27 with 849 views
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