Virus

The cold is a coronavirus. To my knowledge no-one has yet found a vaccine for it, or a complete one for the flu.

The flu mutates every year. I wonder why the various research groups are so sure covid 19 will be different.

Well for sure one consequence of this episode is that 'normal' life will not resume for many weeks yet, if ever. Let us hope that the gradual steps being taken here from 2nd May will improve the general lot of the people.

Hairdressers will be among those functions allowed to re-open.

Hi Pyrman yes mutations on the virus can always be a problem but the vaccine is designed to insert strong ammount of antibodies that deal with different strains of the virus,we sahll see if the work is successful or not in a few months time. As for Portugal re-opening business well people cannot live in lockdown forever there will be new rules,i think it will be interesting to see how they will manage the ammount of people going to the beach... But i for one suspect that the virus will be less and less contagious as the time go by might be wishful thinking but looking at different pandemics throughout the years that is what happened...

In the meantime stay safe everyone hopefully sooner rather than later we will be able to enjoy life as we always have.

Hi Jayjan hope you and the family are doing well. Yes still working at the biggest hotel in Manchester

I did read the interview of Mr Costa in the Expresso newspaper i hope all goes to plan,people cannot live on lockdown forever. I may add as well that there are plenty of studies and trains going on with antiviral drugs against this illness maybe they come up with something that stops the virus on its tracks even before the vaccine...

I hope the situation here in the UK get much better soon. Too many people dying and suffering at the hands of this virus.

Stay safe everyone

Hi Jayjan,problems are everywhere lack of PPE and the envirnoment as you expect is a great ground for the virus to spread we do what we can really but it is hard...

As for the beaches in Portugal the problem is that there is a vast ammount of coast and will be impossible like you said to keep everything under check we just hope that by then the virus will be present in really low levels. I was reading a study presented by an Israeli scientist who claimed that the virus regardless of the measures put in place by individual Countris peaks at around 8 weeks from the 1st transmission and then starts to wane from then on,let's hope he is right!