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In the 5 day old Pop Score table used for the Red Zone watch areas Medway is number two and 5 days ago was 605. The only place above it then was Swale with a Pop score then of 646. Just above where Medway is today.

Dartford in that list using 5 days old data had a Pop Score of 311 so has risen a bit since too. That puts it as the 24th most infected location in England. Its score of 387 today would have put Dartford at 14 on that list but other areas may have gone up too in those 5 days so probably not.

Burnley at 30th (Pop 287), Blackburn at 35th (Pop 257). Pendle at 43rd (Pop 251) are the only places north of Birmingham in the top 50 watch boroughs.

The list was all up north. Now it is nearly all down south.

And even Bury - the highest GM borough which had a Pop of 221 five days ago has fallen since so likely would not even be at 64th on that list where it was with that Pop of 221.

No other GM borough is in the top 80.

Manchester is at 106 th.

No Merseyside borough is in the top 150 in the list.
 
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Greenwich schools forced to close
Statement from Danny Thorpe, Leader of the Council:

I’m writing this open letter to let you know the situation in Greenwich in relation to Covid19 is now escalating extremely quickly and I have today been briefed by colleagues from Public Health England that the pandemic in Greenwich is now showing signs that we are in a period of exponential growth that demands immediate action.

We now have the highest rates of infection in Greenwich than at any time since March, and for these reasons I have therefore asked all schools in Greenwich to close their premises from Monday evening and move to online learning for the duration of the term, with the exception of key worker children and those with specific needs (exactly the same as in the first lockdown

all schools and uni's should have been shut ages ago
 
kaz7 said:

Greenwich schools forced to close
Statement from Danny Thorpe, Leader of the Council:

I’m writing this open letter to let you know the situation in Greenwich in relation to Covid19 is now escalating extremely quickly and I have today been briefed by colleagues from Public Health England that the pandemic in Greenwich is now showing signs that we are in a period of exponential growth that demands immediate action.

We now have the highest rates of infection in Greenwich than at any time since March, and for these reasons I have therefore asked all schools in Greenwich to close their premises from Monday evening and move to online learning for the duration of the term, with the exception of key worker children and those with specific needs (exactly the same as in the first lockdown

all schools and uni's should have been shut ages ago
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Bollocks.
 
GM Scoreboard:

Cases 602 - down from 727. 40% of NW total 1490.

3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v TODAY :- 1039 v 600 v 670 v 602 - think you can call that a stall.


Pop Score is cases across whole pandemic v 100,000 people - rises daily but lower the better.

Weekly Pop is same measure across last 7 days only. Can rise or fall depending on if more cases or less occur today v the same day last week,

Either way Up is bad, down is good.



Manchester 118 – down a lot from 173. Total cases 32, 897. Weekly 971 Back under the 1000 a week mark. Pop score up 21 to 5950. Will be in the 6000 club next week but doing better. Weekly Pop down 7 to 175.

Wigan 89 – up from 78. Total cases 17, 654. Weekly 593. Pop score up 28 to 5372. Weekly Pop up 3 to 179. Consistently under 100 is a very good sign.

Rochdale 69 - up from 61. Total cases 13, 516. Weekly 444. Pop score up 31 to 6077. Highest rise in GM today. Weekly Pop down 12 to 200. (had 97 cases a week ago is why). Nearly left Bury as only borough in the 200s. Hopefully tomorrow.

Oldham 65 - down from 80. Total cases 15, 534. Weekly 413. Pop score up 27 to 6551. But again Blackburn rose by 32 and its pop score us up to 6921 – so is now 370 above Oldham as worst in UK and will be the first to enter the 7000 club in two or three days. More cases than last week though so Oldham's Weekly Pop up 8 to 178.

Salford 62 down from 71. Total cases 14, 047. Weekly 374. Pop score up 24 to 5427. Weekly Pop up 2 to 144.

Bolton 57 up from 75. Total cases 15, 939. Weekly 424, Pop score up 20 to 5543. Weekly Pop up 1 to 147.

Bury 47 – down from 57. Much better here of late. Total cases 10, 517. Weekly 408. Pop score up 25 to 5507, Weekly Pop down 1 to 214. Slow crawl to sub 200 but on the way for the highest rated town and the only GM one in the top two pages of the red watch list. Though nowhere near the top.

Trafford 38 – down from 52. But two boroughs below it again today and the three usual best in GM are starting to cluster here as a sign of a return to normality. Total cases 9140. Weekly 258. Pop score up 16 to 3851. Weekly Pop stays at 109.

Stockport 32 – down from 47, Total cases 11, 141. Weekly 326. Closest it has been to Trafford in weekly total in a while but with Tameside ahead of both. Pop score up 11 to 3797 which increases lead over Trafford for best overall Pop by 5 to 54 after it looked like Trafford would have taken over a few days ago. Weekly Pop down 3 to 111. Just 2 ahead of Trafford now but Tameside leaving both of them trailing.

Tameside 25 – down from 33 and best in GM again. Total cases 10, 870. Weekly 207. Best weekly cases in GM and a 51 lead over Trafford now. Pop score up 11 to 4799. Lowest rise in GM again today – though shared with Stockport this time also. Weekly Pop down 6 to 91. The only sub 100 weekly pop in GM. And 18 ahead now of long term leader Trafford.
 
kaz7 said:
Greenwich schools forced to close
Statement from Danny Thorpe, Leader of the Council:

I’m writing this open letter to let you know the situation in Greenwich in relation to Covid19 is now escalating extremely quickly and I have today been briefed by colleagues from Public Health England that the pandemic in Greenwich is now showing signs that we are in a period of exponential growth that demands immediate action.

We now have the highest rates of infection in Greenwich than at any time since March, and for these reasons I have therefore asked all schools in Greenwich to close their premises from Monday evening and move to online learning for the duration of the term, with the exception of key worker children and those with specific needs (exactly the same as in the first lockdown

all schools and uni's should have been shut ages ago
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Why schools? Robbing young kids of education and social interaction because of a virus that for the under 60’s has a 99.5% survival rate. This country is fucked because of scaremongering like this.
 
itsnevereasy said:
Why schools? Robbing young kids of education and social interaction because of a virus that for the under 60’s has a 99.5% survival rate. This country is fucked because of scaremongering like this.
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Older kids catch and spread it, that is the problem, sending kids back to uni was mad , as is older kids going to school
 
Aftee Hancock's pronouncements today, I doubt anywhere will be dropping out of Tier 3 any time soon. Ridiculous. The plot has been lost completely.
 
Who the hell thought this was a good idea


A "superspreader" Santa has been blamed for a large outbreak of coronavirus at a care home.

Authorities in Mol, Antwerp, are investigating after scores of residents at the Hemelrijck residential home tested positive for COVID-19, following a Christmas visit from a man dressed as St Nicholas.

news.sky.com

COVID-19: 'Superspreader' Santa blamed for coronavirus outbreak at Belgian care home

It is thought 75 people have tested positive at the Belgian care home following the Christmas visit.
news.sky.com news.sky.com
 
Have to say the speed of rolling out rapid testing has disappointed. Its 5 weeks since Liverpool testing completed.
 
kaz7 said:
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More helpful than the constant inane shite you put on here. Most with zero substance or thought.

Where are the kids who can't go to school going to go while their parents are working? Trust me, if you understood how difficult lockdown 1 was for working parents with young children, you wouldn't be saying this.

The likelihood is that parents, I know I certainly would, would send their children to their grandparents instead of school. There would be millions of parents scratching around looking for solutions in a desperate situation.

It is not a time for parents to be crying to work with excuses not to being doing their jobs, especially with so many companies struggling and so many others waiting to take your job.

Just have a think about what you are saying. For gods sake

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I forgot how difficult it was for the children too. It's awful for them as they crave attention you just can't give.
 
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What did he say ?
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Something about taking out one region merely means they then catch up with the other.

ground certainly seems to being laid to effectively keep GM in tier 3 (whilst placing London in tier 3) with some sort of crap about overall rates. When the numbers are reversed, London gets released.
 
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Something about taking out one region merely means they then catch up with the other.

ground certainly seems to being laid to effectively keep GM in tier 3 (whilst placing London in tier 3) with some sort of crap about overall rates. When the numbers are reversed, London gets released.
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Thanks , not had the news on today
 
Healdplace said:
Andrew Marr had some interesting interviews today.

We learned that the Oxford vaccine might well be approved by 31 December. And that they are planning small scale tests on combining it with the Russian Sputnik vaccine as they they think it might boost its success levels doing this.

Also that in future vaccines for the next pandemic could be created in weeks not months given the new tech used in the one already being used.

And that scientists have been very fearful of what happened in the US where the Thanksgiving weekend led quickly to a huge spike in cases and record deaths in the US and why they fear this Christmas will have the same impact in the UK come early January unless people really get the message about not travelling all over the UK and meeting multiple parts of their family.

Sadly we are not Germany who know this is necessary and so are just doing it and it is almost inevitable we will end up more like America.

And come January when everything is locked down possibly till Spring those who then complain about how it will cost them freedom and their jobs will be the same ones who are responsible for why it has to happen.

Oh and that Hancock has finally got the message we saw in here from Wigan months ago! And he has written to MPs explaining why the government do not now believe in relaxing the rules for less infected areas in hot zones that then just have the virus imported into them from the restricted areas by people who bend the rules and just go to the nearest unrestricted location.

Better late than never and it may be that it is more about justifying tier 3 for London next week whilst not unrestricting places in GM. But it is finally awakening to the reality of how this virus moves.
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It isn't Christmas as in the period that's the problem, it's the panic buying and lead up that is the problem.

I'm currently into the window where if I got it then I could give it to my gran over Xmas so I'm more or less in self-isolation now until Xmas eve. With this in mind the shops should be getting quieter but they definitely aren't.

I can only see cases rising faster than ever before over the next couple of weeks. Let's hope that many of the idiots out there understand that if they take risks and develop symptoms anytime in the next week and a half then Christmas for them is cancelled.
 
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