Thread: Covid 19 C&P

European travel restrictions, where can non EU travellers enter?

European travel restrictions: Where can non-EU travelers enter? | DW Travel | DW | 09.10.2020

Germany tightens COVID rules.

Germany extends list of cities under coronavirus clampdown | News | DW | 11.10.2020

It's the second time a ship has arrived from the Philippines with a COVID infected crew.

WA seeks federal help with virus outbreak among ship's crew

Europe's 2nd stage is worse than their first. What lessons does Vietnam have to offer?

Europe's second wave is worse than the first. What went so wrong, and what can it learn from countries like Vietnam?

3 COVID trials have been closed for safety, and that's a good thing.
Experts were comforted that companies are following safety precautions. They pointed out that pauses in vaccine trials are common, but pauses in treatment trials like Eli Lilly’s are rare.

pausing treatment trials — like that of Eli Lilly’s antibody drug — is rarer, and perhaps more worrisome.
That trial was testing the treatment on hospitalized patients — a group that was already sick, and in which declines in health would not be surprising. So for a trial like that one to be paused, the safety concerns must have been significant, they said.
“I’ve done 50-plus monitoring committees, and it’s quite a rare thing to do,” said Tim Friede, a biostatistician at University Medical Center Göttingen in Germany, referring to his role as a safety monitor for drug trials.

For now, the companies behind the trials aren’t saying much. In a statement in September, AstraZeneca said it paused its trial to investigate “a single event of an unexplained illness.” But two vaccinated volunteers reportedly developed the same condition, an inflammation of the spinal cord called transverse myelitis.
Johnson & Johnson said that it was pausing its vaccine trial because of an “unexplained illness.” Eli Lilly’s trial of the antibody treatment was paused because of a — so far undisclosed — health difference between the group that received the drug and the group that received a placebo.






3 Covid-19 Trials Have Been Paused for Safety. That’s a Good Thing. - The New York Times

Vaccine chaos looming in the USA.

Vaccine Chaos Is Looming - Defense One

Authorities plead for " nothing but the truth" from NSW and Victorian residents.

'Nothing but the truth': More local cases in NSW, amid plea from authorities

In France, police raid the homes of French government officials as part of an investigation into the French governments response to the pandemic.

"Police have raided the homes and offices of France’s health minister, public health director and former prime minister as part of an investigation into the country’s response to the pandemic.
The country is in the grip of a worsening second wave, with new daily coronavirus infections hitting a record – jumping above 30,000 for the first time.
The judicial probe was launched in July following dozens of complaints by doctors, local authorities and nursing homes.
It aims to establish whether those in charge at the start of the outbreak showed a “lack of will to fight a disaster”."




Police raid homes of French government in virus probe