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COVID-19 wreaking havoc with shipping and mail service

21/7/2020

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​A friend posted this:

Can anyone tell me why shipping of small parcel/packages to Australia has been discontinued by all our shipping services? Only express mail ( the expensive version) is an option now. Before small packages for 16 Euro up to 1 Kilo were possible. But as of yesterday it's almost 40 Euro for anything up to 1 kilo. It doesn't matter if DHL or UPS or the german post office, apparently there is no other option! 

My comment on her post:

Not just Australia, not just parcels, but the entire postal service to EVERYWHERE outside the EU, including letters is again out of order!
Even if you pay premium for EMS, the running time and tracking is also screwed up. Absolutely nothing goes through. In June I had to resort to tricks to get my Canadian tax forms in on time, which can only be mailed. The trick was to send them as PDF to a Canadian friend, and he printed it out there and mailed it for me. I got parcels for my family in Canada sitting since April waiting for a "open window" to send. From Austria, you can't even send a simple letter or postcard! I imagine it is the same from Germany.
Most of my POD business is located in the US, which means NOTHING can be ordered.
On a Canadian friends wall I read that even delivery of goods within Canada is near impossible. His Ikea order cannot be delivered until late September, so he writes: "....... Only other option for me is to travel 159 km (318 km total) to pick it up myself at the store...."

Addendum: I have additional Information to add, since I posted this earlier today. You will find it as UPDATE at the end of this blog.
If interested, the Facebook post that started all this is posted public, and there are by now some interesting treads on it - CHECK IT OUT HERE: 
​https://www.facebook.com/yvettepopette/posts/10221188454008198

To put this into context with the overall problems with shipping:
Covid-19 Forcing Shipping Industry into Crisis
CPC Consultants posted about this May 7, 2020 
​As the virus continues to spread, it remains immensely difficult to forecast the medium to long-term implications, yet the short-term consequences are clear: demand and freight rates are dropping and continue to drop as the uncertainty of Covid-19 is impossible to forecast. Demand is slowing from consumers that have resulted in reduced shipping requirements with all modes within the transportation industry. Simple, supply and demand drive the industry requirements.

The Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on global shipping, which could initiate another crisis in what has been a struggling industry. To prevent the spread of the virus, a number of ports and shipping companies have implemented preventive measures leading to cancellation and delays which is causing severe disruptions within the industry. No surprise as most industries have implemented policy to protect the employees and customers.
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About mail service
this had been posted February 13, 2020 in Transportation News, and it is still a topic up to this day:
Coronavirus Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Mail Delivery
Some critical documents, such as bills of lading and letters of indemnity, aren’t getting to mainland China, and ship owners are unwilling to release cargoes to their buyers without them, according to three traders in the physical copper market, who asked not to be named discussing commercial issues.
It’s another example of the challenge posed by the coronavirus in physical commodity markets and shows the problem of relying on hand-delivered paper documents in a complex, global supply chain.

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A notification, still current today, on the Austrian Postal Service reads:
Are there limitations in international postal services?
International postal services are currently available to a very limited extent only.
For some destinations, we are currently unable to accept letter mail items or parcels.
There is a link to the current exclusions about letter and parcel services which is constantly updated. I had downloaded these lists regularly, since they change frequently. There seem to be some short windows of opportunity for a few days, but then they close again. The bottom line is that services from Austria outside the EU are basically restricted to expensive EMS. Right now at this date of writing, the situation with the postal service seems to be worse than what it was back in April, at the height of the pandemic.

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How is the situation in Canada?
Delivery Service Alerts
While currently I cannot send mail from Austria to Canada, it appears that the reverse is not tue - checking   the link above, I find the following (quote from the text on the Canada Post site):
Date posted: July 10, 2020
International Destinations (excluding U.S.A.)


Postal services have been suspended to many international destinations at the request of the receiving Postal Operator or due to the lack of available transportation. The tables below indicate the following:

Service available: Canada Post is still accepting letters and parcels for these destinations. ** Indicates only partial service availability. See PDF list for details.
Suspended service: Canada Post no longer accepts any letters or parcels for these destinations.
For destinations where service is still available, expect significant and unpredictable delays of 7 to 14 days or more. Consumers and business shippers should consider the additional delivery time when making commitments to recipients. Delays are the result of both limited air transportation and changes in the way Postal Operators deliver. Like Canada Post, many international Postal Operators have introduced changes to eliminate customer interactions at the door and support social & physical distancing. These changes may delay delivery and signature will not be available on some items.

**Our goal is to continue providing timely and reliable service. But in light of the current challenges, we have suspended the Money-back Guarantee for XpresspostTM-International and PriorityTM Worldwide service until further notice.

To see the full list of destinations in PDF, click here.
Scrolling down I find that service to Austria is available! 
​So this seems to be a one-way street!

​Conducting research, I found this informative site:
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Postal Monitor
The postal world can experience disruptions that prevent mail from traveling on some international routes. On this page you can find mail suspensions that we are aware of.


You need to check this out, there is a long list with menus for each country.

SAME DAY UPDATE REGARDING THE POST SERVICE IN AUSTRIA :
At the top of this blog I mentioned mail to Canada, and my trick to send PDF to a friend there who then mailed it for me within Canada. It was a last-ditch attempt to get my tax papers in on time. This did happen in June, but unsuccessful mail per EMS happened already in May. To this day, the "official" tracking is stuck at "Handing over to Postpartner". Inquiring with Austria Post on their Facebook page I got an answer that I could not get through their official channels, even after several emails. My EMS mail was eventually delivered after a more than 3 weeks delay. Apparently the Postpartner was DHL, and the person who handled my Facebook query found the DHL tracking that somehow does not show on the Austria Post website. 
On May 20th I posted a blog on the Hive Blockchain about this ordeal (at that time, the issue was not yet resolved)  - it was posted to the HIVE AUSTRIA group in German: 
Die Österreichische Post und COVID-19 [DE]
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The HIVE blog is in German, I also linked to a conversation with Austria Post on their Facebook page, which is also in German - CHECK IT OUT HERE - Date May 19th, the day before my blog. 
​Additional stuff to think about, because in these situations it is more than just ironic: the slogan for a ad for the Austrian Post was unveiled 10 years ago:
"Wenn's wirklich wichtig ist, dann lieber mit der Post" English: "If it's really important, then better by post". This is good for a laugh when you read the comments on this article by the Standard. COVID-19 excuses for poor service today? It has always been poor service according to comments posted a decade ago! But the problems then pale in comparison with the problems today. 

I like to mention something here about myself: when it comes to Logistics, I am not a layman. This was my first job qualification and diploma I earned from the Handelskammer in Vienna. I have a good understanding of the industry, as well as related experience working for the railway in Canada. 
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Air pollution exposure linked to higher COVID-19 cases and deaths – new study

14/7/2020

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Air pollution exposure linked to higher COVID-19 cases and deaths – new study

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Matt Cole, University of Birmingham; Ceren Ozgen, University of Birmingham, and Eric Strobl, Université de Berne

The global death toll from COVID-19 has now passed half a million. To slow the spread of the disease, we need to better understand why some places have higher numbers of cases and deaths than others.

One factor that could partially explain this is air pollution. Research has shown that long term exposure to pollutants such as fine particulate matter (often called PM2.5, as these are particles smaller than 2.5 micrometres), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and sulphur dioxide (SO₂) can reduce lung function and cause respiratory illness. These pollutants have also been shown to cause a persistent inflammatory response even in the relatively young and to increase the risk of infection by viruses that target the respiratory tract.

The pathogen that causes COVID-19 – SARS-CoV-2 – is one such virus. Several studies have already suggested that poor air quality can leave people at greater risk of contracting the virus, and at greater risk of serious illness and death. A study of the US found that even a small increase in PM2.5 concentrations of 1 microgram per cubic metre is associated with an 8% increase in the COVID-19 death rate. Our new research looked at the relationship between COVID-19 cases and exposure to air pollution in the Netherlands and found that the equivalent figure for that country could be up to 16.6%.


Read more: What you need to know about how coronavirus is changing science


The unusual case of the Netherlands

After analysing data for 355 Dutch municipalities, we found that an increase in fine particulate matter concentrations of 1 microgram per cubic metre was linked with an increase of up to 15 COVID-19 cases, four hospital admissions and three deaths.

The first confirmed COVID-19 case in the Netherlands occurred in late February and by late June over 50,000 cases had been identified. The national spread of COVID-19 cases shows a greater number in the south-eastern regions.

COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people and annual concentrations of PM2.5 (averaged over the period 2015-19) in the Netherlands. Matt Cole, Author provided

Unusually, these hotspots of disease transmission are in relatively rural regions where there are fewer people living close together. The Dutch media offered one potential explanation. In late February and early March each year, these areas hold carnival celebrations which attract thousands of people to street parties and parades – 2020 was no exception, so does that explain the rapid spread of COVID-19 there?

While it’s likely that the carnival celebrations played a role, the pattern of cases across these regions suggest other factors may be at least as important.

The south-eastern provinces of North Brabant and Limburg house over 63% of the country’s 12 million pigs and 42% of its 101 million chickens. Intensive livestock production produces large amounts of ammonia. These particles often form a significant proportion of fine particulate matter in air pollution. Concentrations of this are at their highest in air samples from the south-east of the Netherlands.

The correlation between these indicators of air pollution and cases of COVID-19 is clear to see, but is it just a coincidence?

Pollutants associated with COVID-19

Our analysis used COVID-19 data up to June 5 2020, capturing almost the entire known course of the Dutch epidemic. The relationship we found between pollution and COVID-19 exists even after controlling for other contributing factors, such as the carnival, age, health, income, population density and others.

To put our results in context, the highest annual average concentration of fine particulate matter in a Dutch municipality is 12.3 micrograms per cubic metre, while the lowest is 6.9. If concentrations in the most polluted municipality fell to the level of the least polluted, our results suggest this would lead to 82 fewer disease cases, 24 fewer hospital admissions and 19 fewer deaths, purely as a result of the change in pollution.


Read more: What we do and don't know about the links between air pollution and coronavirus


The correlation we found between exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 is not simply a result of disease cases being clustered in large cities where pollution may be higher. After all, COVID-19 hotspots in the Netherlands were in relatively rural regions. Still, region-level data can only get us so far. Within regions, pollution levels and COVID-19 cases can vary considerably from place to place, making it hard to estimate the precise relationship between the two.

Being able to study this link among individual people would allow us to more precisely eliminate the influence of age and health conditions. But until this kind of data is available, the evidence of a relationship between pollution and COVID-19 can never be conclusive.The Conversation

Matt Cole, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Birmingham; Ceren Ozgen, Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Birmingham, and Eric Strobl, Professor of Economics, Université de Berne

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.


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I had blogged about air pollution already on April 6th 2020
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Bats are hosts to a range of viruses

9/7/2020

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Bats are hosts to a range of viruses but don't get sick – why?

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Keith Grehan, University of Leeds

Bats harbour many diverse viruses, including coronaviruses. Indeed, Sars, Mers and COVID-19 – which are all caused by coronaviruses – are thought to have emerged from bats. These diseases can be deadly to humans, yet bats seem to be unaffected by them.

Like all animal species, bats possess their own range of pathogens – viral, bacterial and fungal. Organisms are part of an interconnected system of other living things that evolved to exploit and be exploited in turn. Bats have therefore evolved with a set of viruses that infect them and continuously circulate through the bat population.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 is a member of a family of viruses called the coronaviridae (coronaviruses). Coronaviruses, or “CoVs”, infect a variety of animals, with human infections ranging from HCoV-229E, which causes some cases of the common cold, to MERS-CoV, which is fatal in up to 30% of cases.


Read more: Coronavirus: three misconceptions about how animals transmit diseases debunked


Since the original SARS-CoV outbreak in 2002, coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV have been discovered in bats from countries all over the world. Scientists in China studying Chinese horseshoe bats in 2013, identified several SARS-like CoVs that use the same ACE2 receptor to bind to cells as the current SARS-CoV-2. These viruses were similar enough to SARS-CoV that they were termed SARS-like coronaviruses. New viruses have been added to this group since then. So there is a significant diversity of coronaviruses circulating in bats, which may increase the probability that one of these viruses has the potential to become a zoonotic infection – in other words, can jump to humans.

Bats are excellent hosts for viruses in general and coronaviruses as a group have been particularly successful at infecting and diversifying within bats. The highly social nature of many bat species leads to the constant exchange of viral pathogens between bats – and this may act to drive viral diversification within a population.

Unique among mammals

With so many potentially dangerous viruses circulating among them, why do the bats themselves not die off from these constant infections? Clearly, bats can maintain a balance between control of a viral infection and the excessive inflammatory response that can kill other hosts. Perhaps the answer lies in their unique feature among mammals – flight.


Read more: Bat flu can spread to humans: should we be worried?


The physiological requirements of flight have affected the bat immune system. Flight causes bats to have elevated metabolic functions and raises their core body temperature about 38°C. This means that bats are often in a state that, for humans, would be considered a fever. Researchers in the UK have suggested that this may be a mechanism to help bats survive viral infections.

Bats are the only mammal that can fly. Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock

Viral infections can harm the host, in part, by causing an out-of-control inflammation response called a “cytokine storm”, which can be a fatal complication in several respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. If bats adaptation to flight also allows them to tolerate high body temperatures better, it means they can tolerate at least some potential damaging effects of the inflammation response better than other mammals.

In addition to traits that allow bats to tolerate a high body temperature, bats may also have other adaptations that mark their immune system as unusual or unique among mammals.

A sting in the tale

In 2018, scientists in China and Singapore identified a mutation in a gene that helps to control the antiviral response in bats during a viral infection. The mutation is in a gene called the stimulator of interferon genes (STING), which is common to all mammals and has a crucial role in triggering the inflammation response during a viral infection.

The mutation identified in bats has been shown to reduce the production of specific inflammation-causing proteins, called interferons, during a viral infection.

It may seem counter-intuitive that reduced production of an antiviral component could be better for the host, but it appears that damping down the inflammation response may allow the bats to avoid the damage caused an excessive immune response – the previously mentioned cytokine storm.

Adaptation to flight and mutation in STING both serve to control and tolerate inflammation. But these changes are probably only part of how bats have adapted to persistent viral infections in a way that other species have not.

Although we have known for a long time that bats are a potential source of novel viruses, research into bat immunity remains at the cutting edge of science, and new research is emerging all the time. It is likely that further discoveries will be made and that each new piece of data will enhance our understanding of bats, viruses and provide insights into our own immune systems.The Conversation

Keith Grehan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Biology, University of Leeds

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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COVID-19 - About Local Lockdowns

1/7/2020

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PLEASE EXCUSE THE CLICK-BAIT - this photo has nothing whatsoever to do with the article!
The image was from a Chinese Shop in Vienna I had taken some years ago.
I used it as the top image for my post on the Hive Blockchain - click the title below to read my post.

​Local lockdowns could lead to civil disorder – here's why

The city of Leicester, in the UK’s Midlands region, is facing a lockdown following a recent spike in COVID cases. The decision was confirmed by UK home secretary, Priti Patel, on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, June 27.
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A related article appeared on THE CONVERSATION about a month ago:

Lockdown:
we need to experiment with reopenings now to prevent a second wave

​ With coronavirus infection rates falling – and the predicted economic and welfare costs of lockdown so high – governments across the world have tentatively started lifting restrictions and reopening their economies.

But to do this safely and prevent a second wave of infections, policymakers need to understand the effects that lockdown measures such as closing schools or businesses – known as non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) – are having on containing the virus. This will help predict the effects of rules being eased, and also show which interventions are most effective.
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Updated News from METROPOLE - a Austrian Expat Community Publication
The Coronavirus in Austria & Vienna 
EU to Open Borders to 14 Overseas Nations 
US, Russia, Brazil Not Included
​June 30, 2020: The European Union formally agreed on opening the external borders of the EU to several countries outside the European economic area and travel zone. Travelers from these countries are free to travel to Europe: Japan, South Korea, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Rwanda, Serbia, Montenegro, Georgia, Uruguay, Thailand, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. Travelers from Russia, Brazil and the US are banned from entering the EU due to high numbers of active coronavirus cases and new infections.
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Interesting video from one week ago, regarding local lockdowns:
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