Covid Rule Changes...

[nailit]

I havnt kept up with all the covid rule changes
(Which frankly change by the day). Just play it by ear.

Diagnosed with Covid on Thursday (Lateral flow test).
Felt like death warmed up yesterday, (Friday).
Actually had the best sleep of my life for the last few years (last night)
Today I feel a bit 'chesty' and a cough but otherwise fine. Im isolating for the foreseable and booked next week of work.

Bit confused though as to lateral flow tests & PCR tests.
Am I right in thinking that if a lateral flow test shows positive results after 5 days that you can still go back to work?
(Because you are not infectious)
BUT a PCR test indicatates that you CANNOT go back to work until 10 days after?
I might be completely wrong here but that my present understanding.

[andres]

In fact in India they were doing round the clock cremations . Burning so many bodies on funeral pyres that the authorities were being asked to cut down all the trees in the towns. That's how bad it was ,a year ago.

[Togo]

//Even here cremations were being held up because they couldn't incinerate the bodies quickly enough.//

That was not so much the number of bodies, but the lack of staff and transport caused by the shut down of all activity. As far as I can ascertain the figures for UK cremations since 2018 are thus. 2021 totals not yet available. 2018 - 481,308. 2019 - 472,302. 2020 - 472,308.

[nailit]

My mum was cremateted last April.
Cant recall any furthur cremations that month.
Or any mass burial sites for the UK?

[pastafreak]

Here's an article discussing mass graves in the US. Not uncommon there for the poor. Hart island...in bednobs link...was the local potters field, a place for burial of the poor.

https://theconversation.com/mass-graves-for-coronavirus-victims-shouldnt-come-as-a-shock-its-how-the-poor-have-been-buried-for-centuries-136655

[Mamyalynne]

It most probably varied region to region.

Togo has already linked to the mass graves dug, thank heavens more weren't needed.

Delays definitely arose and makeshift morgues sprang up for a time.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/14/dealing-with-death-covid-toll-uk-crematoria-morgues

Be glad it didn't affect you - I am.

[bobbinwales]

//Cant recall any furthur cremations that month.//
Based on Togos figures there was probably about 35000-40000 but fortunately no-one I knew well as far as i remember.

[andres]

Mass graves were dug at Chislehurst , Bromley in preparation for Islamic burials.