Official live update of spread of COVID19

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson transferred to ICU as Covid-19 symptoms worsen

I'm no big fan of the Boris, being a lefty, but this...

It's plain to see that the "jet set," their friends, colleagues and families are in the crosshairs - skiing holidays in Italy what what? That logic would perfectly well explain the seemingly unlikely nature of the Boris coming acropper like this, at least to a substantial degree. You don't get much more jet set than him and his palls.

I've sais it before and I'll say it again - there's been a 10 fold increase in air travel out of China since the time of the 2003 SARS epidemic (NOT pandemic). There has doubtless been a large increase in air travel globally in general too over that period. One reason Italy has it so bad is due to skiing season, it has been suggested, for example, and for a time Switzerland had the highest per capita infection rate in the world too. As if global warming weren't enough of a reason to stop doing an impression of the demise of Icarus, now we have SARS2/3/n.