Covid - news and views
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Question for LLM, if you know please, as I can’t anything out from other sources! My son and daughter-in-law have had 3 Pfizer vaccinations in Macau, they have now found out that UK doesn’t recognise Macau vaccinations! They are due here in the next few weeks and now it appears they have to enter as unvaccinated, and do the appropriate tests and quarantine. I may understand it if they had a Sinovac jab, or the other Chinese based one, but not Pfizer. I have been using, and reporting on, the Zoe app since the beginning and found Tim Spectre, and John Campbell, both to be much more honest and understandable than some of the Government information. The Zoe app Covid numbers have been very different to the ONS numbers as well.
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I can offer an insight without guarantees H-Macau is a Chinese dependency, China’s covid-19 vaccine has proved to be weak as has Russia’s so I’m thinking that if it’s not powerful enough Western Govt’s don’t trust its efficacy. In short it’s not to be trusted. That is generally how places allied to ‘rogue states’ are viewed.
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Heddlo. I'm not sure if my first post will appear so I'm repeating myself.
I had a look at ukgov Covid entry requirements. It lists all the approved immunisations.
It also states that Macau gets entry approval on Feb 4th. So hope your family visit goes well!
PS best to check this for yourself in case I'm wrong.
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Good to hear, Fish👍🏻
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I’m glad you got your answer eventually👍🏻. I just read a piece from a mecanese writer & posted it. He was wrong as you point out, I just tried to answer your question when no one else tried. It was only after I tried you got others weighing in. It wasn’t good enough but there you go🤷🏻♂️
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Our local county had some good news for us today.
The rate per 100,000 has dropped to just 39 and we had the lowest daily rate for ages in only 44 cases yesterday so here's hoping that it can continue its downward trend.
Are others seeing a significant drop?
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After the news that they were considering charging for lateral flow test I thought we might get a supply in before it happened. So yesterday I ordered a pack for each of us, and they were posted throughout letter box before 3 pm today. Now that's service for you.
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Very pleased, nay, DELIGHTED even, to report that both my near neighbours have reported as Covid Free at long last
. Sadly they did not go out today owing to T'Alex being the proud ( not !) owners of a very wet Mornflake football pitch 
. Still they got to see the Birmingham athletics ( BBC Red Button ) today whilst recuperating !0 -
Wise move, Nellie, we've done the same.
And according to this report anyway the sharks are lining up to make big money out of Joe Public over the next few months!
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We have bought some as well because we could get them from larger supermarkets here until 15th February at cost price as now they are only sold again at Pharmacies although they are selling a bit cheaper but not cost price, not had the free give away here.
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We have done same. Ordered a pack online.
(Slightly off topic, but still health related. England government is looking at raising age for free prescriptions to 66. And it will include those who are currently 60-65 and at the moment receiving free prescriptions.) Not sure how it might affect those like my OH who have no option but to take life saving drugs, I know Cancer patients at one time could apply for an exemption certificate. ☹️
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Thanks for the heads up. Hadn't read or heard about prescription charge change. Luckily we're OK.
I too have never understood, 'free' prescription criteria I got them for an thyroid condition but OH didn't following a heart attack. Bizarre! We used to buy a 'season ticket'. Not sure these days how many items you'd require to make it cost effective.did they ever resolve the HRT prescription conundrum where a course require 2 tablets in the one prescription? They used to charge it as 2 items......
I've just ordered more LFT but could only order one, I'll do another tomorrow.
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When I used to buy the 'season ticket' it was just over £100, £104 rings a bell? I see now it £108.10 and prescription charges are £9.35 so if you needed a single item monthly prescription you'd save £4.10 by having it. Of course if you need more than one item then it is certainly a good idea.
Someone said somewhere to me today that you can now only order one LFT pack every three days?
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You can order test packs every 3 days, Corners, and if you do it by means of obtaining a code number which you show to the pharmacist, they usually give out 2 packs in my experience.
With regard to prescription 'season tickets', although they last for 12 months it is possible to obtain 13 repeats in that time by ordering every 4 weeks. Once the ticket expires you can then wait until you need the next lot of pills before buying a new one so, in reality, a ticket can last 14 months or so.
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So the great Panjandrum has declared that we must all take personal responsibilty from now on, presumably like he did. Good luck with that.
Went to B&Q this afternoon which is in England. About 2% of people of the population were wearing masks, yep us idiots. Mix of demographics in there. Called in just over the border at Winfields in Wales and all of the customers and staff were wearing masks. In fact the staff turned 2 people away who refused to wear them.
OH did ask me how long we would continue with them, meaning us two personally not Wales as a country. If we feel safe we won't, if we don't feel safe then we'll try to avoid going into places. Don't know how long that will last but we managed it last year on holiday but that was when institutions like NT still insisted on customers and members wearing them. Can't see them continuing for much longer.
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We've never done the pharmacist route, just get them delivered. Also the 'children' get them from work as they're supposed to test twice weekly.
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I did the pharmacy thing because the first time I tried the website wouldn’t let me in to order for delivery. I know it’s hard to believe that a website could be that temperamental but….🤷🏻♂️
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Now I do recall we had a slight problem, something to do with the post code being written in a particular order? Now it just remembers what we put in last time.
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