Coronavirus UK: Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers protests lockdown and touts chloroquine as a ‘cure’

Jeremy Corbyn’s conspiracy theorist brother has been fined by police after spearheading an anti-lockdown protest, where he touted Donald Trump’s chloroquine as a Covid-19 cure.

Piers Corbyn, 73, was seen carrying a sign which included the slogan ‘end lockdown now’ during the 40 person strong protest in the centre of Glastonbury, Somerset, on Sunday.  

Mr Corbyn was filmed saying: ‘In all probability no one has died of this virus alone, because it is curable. You can cure it by chloroquine. 

‘The drug companies are suppressing this information because they want to impose on us all a vaccine and force people to take a vaccine, which is against human rights.’  

Jeremy Corbyn’s conspiracy theorist brother Piers Corby (pictured) spearheaded an anti-lockdown protest in Glastonbury, Somerset, on Sunday

Mr Corbyn, 73, was seen carrying a sign which included the slogan 'end lockdown now' during the 40 person strong protest

Mr Corbyn, 73, was seen carrying a sign which included the slogan ‘end lockdown now’ during the 40 person strong protest

Two men were arrested and three were handed fixed penalty notices by officers, Avon and Somerset police say

Two men were arrested and three were handed fixed penalty notices by officers, Avon and Somerset police say

It is the third demonstration Mr Corbyn, whose brother is former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has spearheaded in a matter of weeks. Pictured: Police speak to a man at the protest

It is the third demonstration Mr Corbyn, whose brother is former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has spearheaded in a matter of weeks. Pictured: Police speak to a man at the protest

Immediately after the comments an incredulous cameraman at the scene told Mr Corbyn ‘you’re talking f****** s***,’ adding: ‘you are spreading that’. 

Donald Trump hailed the anti-malaria drug as a ‘game changer,’ last month as White House aides led a huge push to push it as a treatment for coronanvirus.

Results of a New York state Health Department trial suggest patients treated with hydroxychloroquine are no better off than those who don’t receive it. 

Police were forced to break up the protest and say two men have been arrested, and since released under investigation, while three others were slapped with fixed penalty notices.

Somerset and Avon Police would not confirm if Mr Corbyn was one of those dealt with by police.

It is the third demonstration the weather forecaster, whose brother is former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has spearheaded in a matter of weeks.

At a previous demonstration, videos showed Piers Corbyn giving a speech claiming there was no pandemic.

So far there have been almost 250,000 coronavirus deaths recorded worldwide, including more than 28,000 in the UK, while there have been more than 3.5million recorded cases across the planet.

At previous demonstrations, Mr Corbyn also claimed that the government’s rules to keep two metres apart from others was to allow GPS and 5G satellites to more easily identify individuals.  

In the previous demonstrations he has claimed vaccinations for coronavirus will be used to injected Britons with microchips, according to the Sun

During his speech at a previous demonstration, Mr Corbyn can be heard saying: ‘We all know the lockdown has failed us. It has caused misery.

At a previous demonstration (pictured), videos showed Piers Corbyn (right) giving a speech claiming there was no pandemic.

At a previous demonstration (pictured), videos showed Piers Corbyn (right) giving a speech claiming there was no pandemic.

‘We know there is no pandemic…We’ll have more deaths from loneliness, suicide and people being kept out of hospital.’  

Piers Corbyn is the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (pictured)

Piers Corbyn is the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (pictured)

The latest demonstration spearheaded by Piers Corbyn was broken up by police on Sunday.

In a post on Twitter, Avon and Somerset police said: ‘Officers have dispersed the small protest in Glastonbury which took place at lunchtime today.

‘Two men have been arrested and taken into custody and three further people have been given fixed penalty notices, all under COVID-19 legislation.’   

Public gatherings are banned under the current lockdown measures, introduced in March as a way to slow the spread of coronavirus. 

Mr Corbyn hit headlines in April last year, while brother Jeremy was still Labour leader, when he called Greta Thunberg an ‘ignorant, brainwashed child’.

Mr Corbyn tweeted an image of the 17-year-old, who is from Sweden, alongside a swastika.

It came a day after brother Jeremy had met Ms Thunberg in London as she showed her support for climate change group Extinction Rebellion. 

The then-Labour leader later described the meeting as ‘absolutely fascinating’, saying they had discussed issues around pollution, emissions and agriculture.

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE DID NOT IMPROVE SURVIVAL ODDS FOR 600 CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS

-By Natalie Rahhal, Acting Us Health Editor  

Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine are no better of than those who don’t receive the drug hailed by Trump as a ‘game-changer’ results of a New York state Health Department trial suggest. 

‘I think from the review that I heard basically it was not seen as a positive, not seen as a negative,’ said Governor Andrew Cuomo during CNN’s coronavirus town hall.

Ultimately, the study, conducted by SUNY at Albany, is intended to involved some 4,000 coronavirus patients, but the preliminary results are from a sample of 600 patients. 

Disappointingly, survival rates were no better among the group treated with the experimental drug than among those who got the standard supportive care, including oxygen, IV fluids and, if necessary, mechanical ventilation.

Of the 600-some coronavirus patients treated at 22 New York City area hospitals, some were treated with hydroxychloroquine alone, others were treated with the malaria drug plus the antibiotic azithromycin, and a third group got only the typical supportive care. 

‘We don’t see a statistically significant difference between patients who took the drugs and those who did not,’ Dr David Holtgrave, who led the SUNY Albany study told CNN. 

Notably, there were not higher rates of heart problems among the patients given hydroxychloroquine, despite the potential for dangerous arrhythmias as a side effect. 

It comes after a Veteran Affairs study found that more COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine died than did those who didn’t receive the drug. 

Dr Holtgrave stressed, however, that the results of his stud are preliminary findings of an ongoing study that have not been peer-reviewed or published.   

He and his team expect the full research, inclusive of 1,200 patients, will be ready for release as early as next week. 

‘Hopefully what we’ve done here is to start collecting data and evidence and learning lessons as we go forward about effects and side effects,’ he told CNN. 

Echoing Dr Holtgrave’s sentiments during CNN’s round table, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr Stephen Hahn said: ‘Obviously you need to wait for the entire cohort of individuals to have been treated with the complete course of treatment to get a full read on that.’ 

So far, the researchers have only revealed a hint at comparative survival rates, but the full study will also detail differing hospital stay lengths and whether patients treated or not treated with hydroxychloroquine had to be put in ICUs on ventilators, according to CNN.