Nom de plume Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 New case statistics officer appointed at the Cabinet Office. All is well. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Onchan Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, Annoymouse said: Probably easier to say which schools haven’t had a pupil test positive at the moment, I know of at least two in RGS and that never made the news, it was at the same time IOM G decided to stop posting low risk locations and made the decision to close schools. HBN the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nom de plume Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 It’s in the Post Office too ... In fact it’s everywhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 https://covid19.gov.im/general-information/isle-of-man-exit-framework/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-03-09/covid-19-isle-of-man-publishes-exit-strategy The Isle of Man Government has published the Island's long-term exit strategy from Covid-19.There are currently 419 active cases of coronavirus in the Isle of Man as islanders experience their third wave of the virus - the highest number recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. While the Island remains in a 'circuit-break' lockdown, it is estimated the peak number of cases will be reached this week while school remains closed. The new plans involve moving from an 'elimination strategy' to a 'mitigation strategy' where island life can resume with no restrictions. This is made up of three phases - preparation, transition and release. PHASE ONE - PREPARATION March-April March - April. Little to no change to the current measures in the first phase while the Island prepares for the UK infection rate to decrease. Island remains in a 21-day 'circuit-breaker' lockdown after the virus started to spread in the community. Main purpose is to protect the vaccination rollout and monitoring restrictions. PHASE TWO - TRANSITION May-August All priority one groups being vaccinated. Everyone over the age of 18 offered both vaccination doses. Allow friends and family into the Island, providing they spend three weeks in self-isolation or two weeks, accompanied by three Covid-19 tests. By the end of the phase, it is hoped that the risk on hospital services will be low. Another 'circuit-breaker' lockdown highly unlikely. PHASE THREE - RELEASE September Strategy fully transitioned from 'elimination' to 'mitigation'. Government will have a better idea of how effective vaccinations are. Reach a level where the island will have no Covid-19 restrictions. VACCINATIONS Over 25,000 doses of the vaccine have been administered to Manx residents so far. The speed of the rollout is also expected to increase after clinicians agreed to stagger the dosage for the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccine. An increase in deliveries is also expected to increase the speed of the rollout with over 1000 people due to receive their vaccine every day. There are five vaccination milestones that the government aim to reach running up to the end of September: Priority One first dosage (End of April). Adult population first dosage (End of May). Priority One second dosage (End of June). Adult population second dosage (End of July). Entire population vaccinated (End of September). More information on the priority one groups can be found here. https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-03-09/www.gov.im/covid19vaccine BORDERSBased on the current projections, there will be no major changes to the Isle of Man borders before the end of April 2021, due to the threat of the UK. There are five levels to the border framework: Level 5B - Key workers and controlled return of residents only. Level 5A - Returning residents and key workers only. Level 4 - Non-essential resident travel. Level 3B - Non-essential immediate family sponsored travel with self-isolation. Level 3A - Non-essential immediate family business sponsored travel with self-isolation. Level 2 - Non-essential sponsored travel with no isolation. Level 1 - Unrestricted travel. The Isle of Man is currently in stage 5A of its borders framework. Under the current rules, only Manx residents and selected key workers are currently allowed into the Island with strict rules on self-isolation. The aim is to allow friends and family to enter the Island at the end of the 'preparation phase', providing they self-isolate for three weeks, or two weeks with three Covid-19 tests. To read the full Exit Framework document click here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e7b3bb1c479f649689bc535/t/6047966cac16124503125b1b/1615304358901/GD20210017_ExitFramework_Preview.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Just now, snowman said: https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-03-09/covid-19-isle-of-man-publishes-exit-strategy The Isle of Man Government has published the Island's long-term exit strategy from Covid-19.There are currently 419 active cases of coronavirus in the Isle of Man as islanders experience their third wave of the virus - the highest number recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. While the Island remains in a 'circuit-break' lockdown, it is estimated the peak number of cases will be reached this week while school remains closed. The new plans involve moving from an 'elimination strategy' to a 'mitigation strategy' where island life can resume with no restrictions. This is made up of three phases - preparation, transition and release. PHASE ONE - PREPARATION March-April March - April. Little to no change to the current measures in the first phase while the Island prepares for the UK infection rate to decrease. Island remains in a 21-day 'circuit-breaker' lockdown after the virus started to spread in the community. Main purpose is to protect the vaccination rollout and monitoring restrictions. PHASE TWO - TRANSITION May-August All priority one groups being vaccinated. Everyone over the age of 18 offered both vaccination doses. Allow friends and family into the Island, providing they spend three weeks in self-isolation or two weeks, accompanied by three Covid-19 tests. By the end of the phase, it is hoped that the risk on hospital services will be low. Another 'circuit-breaker' lockdown highly unlikely. PHASE THREE - RELEASE September Strategy fully transitioned from 'elimination' to 'mitigation'. Government will have a better idea of how effective vaccinations are. Reach a level where the island will have no Covid-19 restrictions. VACCINATIONS Over 25,000 doses of the vaccine have been administered to Manx residents so far. The speed of the rollout is also expected to increase after clinicians agreed to stagger the dosage for the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccine. An increase in deliveries is also expected to increase the speed of the rollout with over 1000 people due to receive their vaccine every day. There are five vaccination milestones that the government aim to reach running up to the end of September: Priority One first dosage (End of April). Adult population first dosage (End of May). Priority One second dosage (End of June). Adult population second dosage (End of July). Entire population vaccinated (End of September). More information on the priority one groups can be found here. https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-03-09/www.gov.im/covid19vaccine BORDERSBased on the current projections, there will be no major changes to the Isle of Man borders before the end of April 2021, due to the threat of the UK. There are five levels to the border framework: Level 5B - Key workers and controlled return of residents only. Level 5A - Returning residents and key workers only. Level 4 - Non-essential resident travel. Level 3B - Non-essential immediate family sponsored travel with self-isolation. Level 3A - Non-essential immediate family business sponsored travel with self-isolation. Level 2 - Non-essential sponsored travel with no isolation. Level 1 - Unrestricted travel. The Isle of Man is currently in stage 5A of its borders framework. Under the current rules, only Manx residents and selected key workers are currently allowed into the Island with strict rules on self-isolation. The aim is to allow friends and family to enter the Island at the end of the 'preparation phase', providing they self-isolate for three weeks, or two weeks with three Covid-19 tests. To read the full Exit Framework document click here. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e7b3bb1c479f649689bc535/t/6047966cac16124503125b1b/1615304358901/GD20210017_ExitFramework_Preview.pdf Has it been peer reviewed? 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horatiotheturd Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Cambon said: Sure, but they have been in lockdown for ages, but still have 820,000 active cases. Until that figure drops significantly, I cannot see anything happening on the borders. Additionally, let's see what happens in 2-3 weeks time now that uk schools are open. Who cares? We are well and truly into love life must go on now the elderly are vaccinated stage. Parts.of the rest of the world are starting to open up. The bits that will be left behind are those who adopted a stupid "no covid" policy. The sooner has the balls to stand up and say the island will never be covid free again the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 At least Dogs can now be walked for those isolating!! https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/changes-to-dog-walking-rules-for-those-isolating/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) Ugh. Reading that toss throws up the term 'future normal'. I'm not sure I want to read the rest. Edited March 9, 2021 by TheTeapot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Well that framework darkened my mood somewhat even with the woolly mights and maybe's. I don't know if Howie thinks we are going to spend all our 'Holiday' money on the island if he keeps us all penned in again. but he's going to look a proper prick if people from the UK are jetting off to Spain and Greece without restriction and we need to isolate for 3 weeks to see the family for the first time in 2 years. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, snowman said: PHASE ONE - PREPARATION March-April March - April. Little to no change to the current measures in the first phase while the Island prepares for the UK infection rate to decrease. Island remains in a 21-day 'circuit-breaker' lockdown after the virus started to spread in the community. Main purpose is to protect the vaccination rollout and monitoring restrictions. So actually there is no Phase One. Phase One is just HQ pretending something is happening for 2 months when it isn't. And calling it "Preparation" is quite ironic. They don't seem to be able to prepare for anything. Just react. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Hans Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, snowman said: Adult population first dosage (End of May). This would suggest they will be ahead of the UK by the end of May, can that be true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 We don't have any adults here, so probably. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hedgehog Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Well I am sure there will be no shortage of friends and family desperate to come here and then be locked in a house with their relatives for 2-3 weeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horatiotheturd Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Cambon said: No. It says preparation will take March April. So sponsored visits in May. Having read the document I was right. Friends and family with isolation in April. You don't half jump to some conclusions without full access to or understanding of the information available. There is no doubt at all we have more infections per head than the UK at the moment. Edited March 9, 2021 by horatiotheturd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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