UK SAGE, Emergency meeting over rapid spread of Indian variant
17th May
21st June

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021...

UK, 45 days first discovered

Cases, = 727

About 3 times quicker than SA variant

Bolton, epicentre, cases doubled in past week

Blackburn, Bedford, South Northamptonshire, Sefton, Tynemouth, Glasgow

MP for Bolton, Yasmin Quareshi

Residents had been slow to get vaccinated

React study, Imperial College London

Infections are spreading more rapidly amongst the Asian community, and in some of the other groups in the population

Andy Burnham

Requested Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, all over-16s in Bolton, and Greater Manchestee

to mitigate the risks of spread in those communities where we are seeing more transmission

Cases inked to international travel

Prof James Naismith, Rosalind Franklin Institute

We should view it as a country-wide problem

Localised restrictions unlikely to work

but maybe Sage already have that data

before we continue to unlock

Goa and ivermectin prophylaxis

https://science.thewire.in/health/ive...

https://www.firstpost.com/health/goa-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladity...

https://www.timesnownews.com/india/ar...

https://indianexpress.com/article/ind...

For all those above the age of 18

Irrespective of Covid-19 symptoms

12 mg of ivermectin for five days

State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane

Goa would be the first state in the country to administer, to its adult citizens

as a step towards protecting lives

State government, drug will be given to the people through its chain of health centres

There have been studies in journals of therapeutics,

there have been studies in the US, UK, Japan, Germany

that when this is administered in advance

when the entire population is administered this treatment

their mortality rate fell and effects of Covid-19 on that individual were also less

All our doctors and experts, the chief minister have unanimously decided to go ahead with this

We should go ahead and give it to the population

It’s a must

Dr Vinayak Buvaji, Goa chapter, Indian Medical Association

Treatment should not be given for a short period of five days

but should ideally be continued till the pandemic is brought under control

The ideal regimen of ivermectin is to administer it on the first, third and seventh day

and then continue it once a week till the pandemic is brought under control

Giving the tablets only for five days will not be impactful

The people weighing below 60 kg should be given the 12 mg dose of ivermectin

while those above 60 kg should be given the 18 mg dose

Dr Buvaji writing to state Health Department to change the proposed ivermectin dose protocol

Chief Scientist, World Health Organization, Dr Soumya Swaminathan

Safety and efficacy are important when using any drug for a new indication

WHO recommends against the use of ivermectin for #COVID19 except within clinical trials

Merck Statement on Ivermectin use During the COVID-19 Pandemic

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-stat...

No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies

No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease

A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies

Next UK vaccination group

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021...

Appointments open to 38 and 39 year olds

Forty something, 75%

Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, offered Phizer or Moderna

Likewise for pregnant women

Text messages

Nepal

Cases, + 9,000

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-57...

Oxygen shortage, 16 deaths

Hospitals in Lumbini province

India restricted exports

Europe

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-57...

Hungary

Vaccinations to 16-18-year-olds this morning

Needed for bars or music festivals

Germany

High demand for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

All allowed

Appointments have had to be cancelled

BDK police union, Sebastian Fiedler, forged vaccination passports

Span and Portugal

Mass sporting attendance from 19th May

30% per stadium in low prevalence areas

Fátima, 7,500 pilgrims