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Old 01-08-2020, 22:50   #4882
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Yet, it was sufficiently different to be highlighted in several tweets by the policy editor of a national newspaper.
Regardless if an outbreak is "hyper-localized" it might be viable. With the wider population of the rest of us, any outbreak is likely to be spread more.
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Akhtar Mahmood, a member of the mosque committee added: ‘One of the big problems we have had is of people going to pay their respects at the homes of those who have recently died. We lost a member of our congregation two weeks ago and there were 50 people gathered at his house to express their sympathies.’ A single road in Bradford registered an astonishing 17 coronavirus cases within six days, it has emerged.
Easy when it's all on one road.

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At the weekend more than 3,000 people were tested at Leicester’s drive-through, walk-in and pop-up test centres – and officials say many more will be tested over the coming days as community testing is stepped up.
This week, hundreds of staff and trained volunteers will be calling on people at home to offer them a free test, with mobile testing units in neighbourhoods.
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More than 1,000 public health workers will door-knock the two Victorian suburbs at the heart of the latest outbreak of Covid-19, with residents offered free testing including by Australian Defence Force medics being brought into the state to boost capacity, as 33 more cases of the virus were identified in the state overnight.
Walk-in testing centres exists in other places as well.
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