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Here are the coronavirus morning headlines for Tuesday, November 3, as half a million people will be offered regular coronavirus testing in a pilot scheme hailed as having the potential to be a “powerful new weapon” in the fight against disease.
All Liverpool residents and workers will be offered repeat tests regardless of whether they have symptoms or not, the Health Department said.
The focus will see the city, which has a population of 498,042, become the first place to test a broader testing scheme in England from Friday.
Some will receive new tests that will give results in an hour that, if successful, could reach “millions” by Christmas, the government says.
Liverpool has one of the highest rates of coronavirus in England.
The latest figures show the city recorded 1,754 cases in the week through Oct. 30. Wales as a whole now has an average of 258.5 cases per 100,000 people.
Together with the surrounding region, Liverpool was the first part of England to enter level three restrictions.
The pilot aims to limit the spread of the virus by identifying as many infected people as possible and taking steps to break the chains of transmission.
The mass test pilot, which will see 2,000 servicemen deployed to help with logistics, will take effect a day after new national blockade measures are put in place in England.
Boris Johnson said that depending on the success of the rapid response tests in the pilot, the goal is to distribute millions of them by Christmas to “empower local communities to use them to reduce transmission in their areas.”
The new restrictions, announced by the prime minister at a televised press conference over the weekend, will be put to a vote in parliament on Wednesday, but a growing number of high-ranking MPs on conservative banks have indicated they will vote against it.
Latest Wales figures
Three more people have died from coronavirus in Wales and more than 1,600 new cases have been identified.
Public Health Wales (PHW), in its daily update on Monday, November 2, confirmed that 1,646 more people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 after a laboratory test.
It’s a significant increase from Sunday when 819 were confirmed. However, PHW said “data transfer issues” between them and the NWIS may have led to some results not being included in yesterday’s tally.
PHW also added that three more people have lost their lives to the virus in Wales, bringing the death toll to 1,891.
Merthyr Tydfil it remains, in some way, the local authority with the highest number of cases per 100,000 in an average of seven days in 689.6 , an increase of 634.9 on Sunday.
Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest incidence rate with 506.5 cases per 100,000, down from 522.2 on Sunday, while Blaenau gwent was third with 496.7 , arise from 476.7 the day before.
Welsh as a whole now averages 258.5 houses per 100,000 people, a welcome decrease of 267.5 on Sunday. Find out the rate in your area here.
New rules for Wales
People in two households will be able to bubble up again and meet in pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants when the fire lockdown in Wales ends next week.
Welsh people will now also be able to travel and vacation anywhere else in Wales. See the full rules for the holidays here.
Prime Minister Mark Drakeford made the announcement at the Welsh Government press conference on Monday.
The new rules will last for two weeks, after which they will be reviewed to see if further changes can be made.
See the full details of the new rules it has announced here.
It comes as England will bring its own month-long national lockdown starting Thursday this week.
PM Says English Restrictions Will End Dec. 2
Any Conservative rebellion is likely to be only symbolic, with Labor keen to back the government on new measures for England.
By appearing in the Commons on Monday, Johnson guaranteed “without a shred of doubt” that the restrictions would expire on December 2, amid concerns from some conservatives that England’s lockdown could extend beyond that date.
He insisted that technological advances “will defeat this virus in the spring” as he tried to avoid a rebellion over the stay-at-home order, which has also seen the prime minister under pressure from business bosses over the “truly devastating” measure.
He promised MPs a new vote on the next stage of measures to combat the coronavirus, saying that the intention is to return to a regional tiered system after this lockdown, and announced greater support for the self-employed after extending the license scheme for employed as pubs. Non-essential restaurants and stores are ordered to close.
Self-isolation period to cut
The Guardian reported that the period of self-isolation for people who test positive and their contacts could be shortened this week to seven days.
Under current government regulations, people who test positive for the virus must isolate themselves for 10 days, while their contacts must isolate for 14 days.
Speaking in the Commons, Johnson said there would be a “great, great push” in the need for contacts to isolate themselves, telling MPs “the proportion of people who isolate themselves in response to NHS test impulses, trace and insulation is still not high enough. “
The prime minister, who will meet with his cabinet Tuesday morning, warned that “without action” there could be twice as many deaths during the winter as in the first wave, which means that “there is no alternative” than another shutdown. national.
In a sobering message, he said that Covid-19 presents an “existential threat” to the NHS, as doctors are forced to choose which patients to treat and “who would live and who would die.”
Police checkpoint surveillance trips
The day the Prime Minister announced new national coronavirus lockdown rules for Wales after fire lockdown police officers set up a checkpoint on the Pembrokeshire-Carmarthenshire border.
Drivers were pulled off the A477 at St Clears on Monday and Dyfed-Powys police officers asked them why they were traveling.
Already during this last lockdown, the officers of the force stopped 130 vehicles crossing the bridge between Swansea and Llanelli.
Cases in your area:
Partial blockade imposed in Germany
When the country entered a partial lockdown, Chancellor Angela Merkel called the pandemic a unique challenge in a century, urging people to comply with hygiene and distancing rules so that health care services do not collapse.
“This is a very big test of our resolve, one we haven’t had since World War II,” he said after a meeting of Germany’s virus working group.
Germany launched its partial lockdown on Monday, and Austria will follow suit later in the week, while Italy, Greece and Kosovo have also announced new measures.
In Germany, restaurants, bars, theaters, cinemas, gyms and other entertainment facilities have closed in a four-week “wave breaker” closure that seeks to force new daily infections to return to manageable levels.
Germans have been asked not to travel and hotels are prohibited from accommodating tourists.
German officials say they cannot trace the source of three-quarters of new coronavirus cases and Health Minister Jens Spahn, who contracted Covid-19, says he does not know where he was infected.
Merkel said the new restrictions could help Germany mark a “turning point” in the battle against the pandemic.
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