Britain secures 300 new ventilators from China

[beijingwalker]

Britain secures 300 new ventilators from China
APRIL 4, 2020 / 11:18 PM / UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO

NHS England national medical director Stephen Powis said the country is ‘constantly’ looking for ventilators (Picture: AFP/Downing Street)


LONDON (Reuters) - Britain took delivery of 300 ventilators from China on Saturday and more will start being produced soon by a consortium of aerospace, engineering and Formula One teams, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said.

“We’ve been buying invasive ventilators from partners abroad, including Germany and Switzerland, and today 300 new ventilators arrived from China, I’d like to thank the Chinese government,” he told a news conference.

Ventilators are essential to treat coronavirus patients (Image: CLEMENS BILAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-300-new-ventilators-from-china-idUSKBN21M0LC

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Thanks China. Britain is hit hard but hopefully building capacity literally just in the nick of time.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Time for people to reach out to China

 

[beijingwalker]

Emergency COVID-19 shipments of ventilators and personal protective gear from China land in the UK

 

[Microsoft]

It's common sense, once peak is a thing of the past what will these countries do with excess ventilators? Wait for next Coronavirus? Although with China doing nothing about animal markets who knows...

 

[beijingwalker]

It's common sense, once peak is a thing of the past what will these countries do with excess ventilators? Wait for next Coronavirus? Although with China doing nothing about animal markets who knows...

Developing countries all across south east Asia, south Asia, Africa and Latin America all have way more wet markets than China and the virus had been proven not from a wet market, the wet market crap is just a hype by western media to smear China, even if China closed all the wet markets, it won't put a dent to the number of the them around the world.

 

[khansaheeb]

Existing british ventilators look like this:-

 

[Microsoft]

Developing countries all across south east Asia, south Asia, Africa and Latin America all have way more wet markets than China and the virus had been proven not from a wet market, the wet market crap is just a hype by western media to smear China, even if China closed all the wet markets, it won't put a dent to the number of the them around the world.

Yes of course it's all fake news against China just like SARS was. None of the other wet markets have caused a pandemic yet and if they do they should be shut down. If China had shut down the markets 15 years ago they wouldn't be Pandemic champion of world.

 

[beijingwalker]

Yes of course it's all fake news against China just like SARS was. None of the other wet markets have caused a pandemic yet and if they do they should be shut down. If China had shut down the markets 15 years ago they wouldn't be Pandemic champion of world.

It's been proved that this coronavirus is not from a wetmarket, researchers tested every nook and cranny of that market, 2009 H1N1 swine flu global pandemic had nothing to do with China, viruses can just pop up anywhere and any time.

WHO PHEIC declarations:
A Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is "serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected", which "carries implications for public health beyond the affected state's national border" and "may require immediate international action". Under the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), states have a legal duty to respond promptly to a PHEIC.

Since 2009 there have been six PHEIC declarations:

2009 H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic
2014 polio declaration
2014 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa
2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak

 

[Pandora]

UK is doing the right thing bcz at the end of the day on these ventilator will make all the difference. This virus will spread for at least another 6 months to 1 year until immunity is formed and vaccine is developed. Pakistan should follow suite if they want to save lives.

 

[Microsoft]

It's been proved that this coronavirus is not from a wetmarket, researchers tested every nook and cranny of that market, 2009 H1N1 swine flu global pandemic had nothing to do with China, viruses can just pop up anywhere and any time.

WHO PHEIC declarations:
A Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is "serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected", which "carries implications for public health beyond the affected state's national border" and "may require immediate international action". Under the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), states have a legal duty to respond promptly to a PHEIC.

Since 2009 there have been six PHEIC declarations:

2009 H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic
2014 polio declaration
2014 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa
2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak

Why did you label coronavirus an 'outbreak' and not a pandemic? None of the other outbreaks are on a level of Covid-19. Where is the proof it is not from wet markets and weren't you the one saying they should be closed couple weeks ago?

 

[beijingwalker]

Why did you label coronavirus an 'outbreak' and not a pandemic? None of the other outbreaks are on a level of Covid-19. Where is the proof it is not from wet markets and weren't you the one saying they should be closed couple weeks ago?

Scientists tested every nook and cranny of the Wuhan wet market and couldn't find the virus, so the virus must be from somewhere else, I'm still for closing of all wet markets, but I m just saying wet markets could not be the source is this particular virus. and Chinese doesn't have so many wet markets comparing to those in south Asian, south east Asia, Africa and Latin America, it's hard to close all of them, does Pakistan have wet markets?

 

[grey boy 2]

Why did you label coronavirus an 'outbreak' and not a pandemic? None of the other outbreaks are on a level of Covid-19. Where is the proof it is not from wet markets and weren't you the one saying they should be closed couple weeks ago?

Silly hater, will you please stop playing the chicken came first or egg game, its getting old and boring
It will like im accusing you "Covid-19" came from your a@s or prove to me why its not

 

[Khan_21]

Developing countries all across south east Asia, south Asia, Africa and Latin America all have way more wet markets than China and the virus had been proven not from a wet market, the wet market crap is just a hype by western media to smear China, even if China closed all the wet markets, it won't put a dent to the number of the them around the world.

The way you defend Chinese leaders and propaganda as if your life depended on it. I do realize you have to do that otherwise you might get dissapeared.

 

[grey boy 2]

The way you defend Chinese leaders and propaganda as if your life depended on it. I do realize you have to do that otherwise you might get dissapeared.

Haters going to hate, whats new? now claw back to your haters hole before you came up with somthing new please, its getting annoying