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It will be interesting to see if they (China) can suppress omicron using their draconian lock down methods. If they can't then their own domestic demands for diagnostics will trump the needs of the west and it won't matter how many brown envelopes are waved around.The sinovac vaccine is rated as useless at preventing transmission of omicron.

Germany has introduced travel restrictions against Brits as of today, joining France. To be fair they've also introduced restrictions against the french.

Enroll today

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uREpls3sTyU&feature=youtu.be

Twice yesterday someone posted an interpretation of an article without reading it and both got it wrong. If you don't want to look like a fool, read the bloody article.

@poidster, interesting in less than three weeks it's assessed as dominant. Measles levels of transmission in community that wasn't heavily exposed to beta unlike South Africa which omicron seems to share a more common lineage with. Our best hope is that higher vaccine numbers in the UK offset that.

Taking into account SGTF, omicron is around 51% prevalence in Scotland - dominant. It won't be far behind in England in many areas.

You haven't bothered reading it have you?

The South African health minister is saying it isn't mild, it's a matter of demographics. If this gets to a naive population (it will) it will run riot.

South Africa: Omicron not causing less severe disease, health minister says
Health Minister Joe Phaahla speaking to reporters

South Africa's health minister says his government believes vaccines and a high level of prior Covid-19 infection are contributing to the wave of milder disease caused by the Omicron variant.

There have been some early suggestions that the Omicron variant driving the country's fourth wave is causing a less severe illness than previous variants in South Africa.

But Joe Phaala told reporters on Friday that the government does not believe the variant is necessarily less virulent than previous waves of the virus.

He said the country was benefiting from the combination of vaccinations and the "natural immunity of people who have already had contact with the virus".

Michelle Groome, from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, added that there had been an uptick in Covid-19 hospital admissions and deaths in recent days.

Vaccination levels in South Africa are high by continental standards, with 44% of the population having received at least one jab, though this is below the government's target to vaccinate 67% of the population by the end of 2021.

Seems it's been upgraded from scratchy throat.

This is why 'letting it rip' isn't a strategy endorsed by boffins. WTF do they know though :-\

They have 30m worth of exsig on the shelves that they should look to offload ;-)

Johnpohn, yes the valuation is stark. There is zero chance of covid income evaporating in 2022, setting aside any growth.

@johnpohn, you've added 50m to ncyts mcap, assume you're using euros? In gbp it's 260m.

Hopefully they're short @neilrich.

The argument is getting beyond tedious for everyone else and it's beginning to stink of disruption. No one else cares about your vaccination status or views, you've made your beds, move on.

Nobody should believe Indias figures, they were losing 1000s more a days than they let on during the delta wave.

It will be interesting if China cannot control Omicron transmission, if they start restricting diagnostics exports to service their own needs then the west will be on a sticky wicket. Domestic diagnostics companies should be set to pounce. UKHSA needs to get off its arse and start validating those tests they've fleeced us out of a fortune for.

Government needs to grow a set and tell the travel industry to live with it or shut our borders like the Aussies did. There's worse things than travel testing.

UKHSA have confirmed no in person slots available in England, expecting to free some up but there is no way it will cover expected demand ongoing.

And have they accredited a single LFT from a UK diagnostics company? Have they f@ck, Jenny Harries wants dragging through the streets.

That's somebody's mother/father/son/daughter, some people should be ashamed of pushing the line that it's 'mild'. They won't though, they lack the self awareness.

@BYP, Validation of products which have cost just shy of 80 grand per test to submit. We should be suing for money back and loss of earnings.

CityAM tweeted the same link to South African doctors telling everyone it's mild no less than 8 times in 24 hrs last weekend.