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UK reports 48,682 further Covid cases​

By this point in the day we would normally expect to have heard the UK's daily coronavirus figures - on new cases, deaths, hospital admissions and vaccinations.
However, the latest update has been delayed due to an "issue with the processing of deaths data", the government dashboard says.
Public Health England has therefore published data on the new confirmed cases of the virus in the UK itself - today's figure is 48,682.


That's up on yesterday's figure of 47,525.
The seven-day average for daily new cases was, as of yesterday, 53,539.
 
BlueAnorak said:
In short, the spike protein gradually mutates to make antibodies to the previous strain less effective at fighting the new strain.
No different than any other new virus strain.
You roll out a new vaccine to fight the new stains the following years. Just like Flu.
The difference going forward?
As the virus type is no longer novel to the indivual the infected person has some iimmunity and is able to better fight it.
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I think the flu scenario is possible but worst case - flu mutates much faster than COVID.
 
Healdplace said:
The England hospital deaths data today still shows grim numbers in coming days.

Another record 368 added to 12 Jan to be 494 after just 2 days.

The three day total for 11 Jan is 625 (only the peak day 8 April) in wave one has ever had more.

The four day total for 10 Jan is 612. And the five day total for 9 Jan is 601. Highest 5 day total since 12 April - 4 days after the peak of the first wave.

As another guide these are the dates at 5 days we reached the hundreds:

First 100 deaths day after 5 days 17 October

First 200 deaths day after 5 days 1 November

First 300 deaths day after 5 days 18 November

After this the autumn wave flattened thanks to lockdown.

First 400 deaths day after 5 days 2 January

First 500 deaths day after 5 days 4 January

First 600 deaths day after 5 days 9 January.

Looks like the first 700 deaths day after 5 days will be quite likely 11 January.

This wave is far more rapid in its escalation than the one in the autumn - presumably because of the new variant.
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Sorry, does that mean today's figures have been released then?
 
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abu13 said:
Sorry, does that mean today's figures have been released then?
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England hospital deaths only were as every day around 2 pm. As were all settings for every nation BUT England\

Full details a few pages back.

Out of hospital in England are the problem.
 
Healdplace said:
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England hospital deaths only were as every day around 2 pm. As were all settings for every nation BUT England\

Full details a few pages back.

Out of hospital in England are the problem.
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Sorry I didn't realise the hospital figures were out,
 
As noted 48, 682 are the UK Cases - so England up as other nations were down today.

That is 4000 less than this day last week though.

But they are waiting for the England out of hospital deaths data to update everything else and have yet to even add that cases number to the gov.uk site.

Nor for some reason all the other data already available such as vaccinations and hospital data.
 
Just seen the hospital deaths and it's heart breaking, I am really hoping the delay today is them straightening out any backlog in figures over the last few weeks. This process of deaths being added weeks after the event is no good.

I feel I would rather see one huge day even if it was 2000+ but then a more accurate and hopefully lower number from here in.

We need some positive numbers showing reductions,
 
Apologies if this is a question that already been answered previously - and big thanks to all the posters that provide such comprehensive updates on the stats etc.

Is there any update on here re the number of vaccinations that have taken place/planned? or is there a link that people are aware of a better source than:

Statistics » COVID-19 Vaccinations (england.nhs.uk)

Just keen to be able to track the acceleration of the vaccine rollout
 
abu13 said:
Just seen the hospital deaths and it's heart breaking, I am really hoping the delay today is them straightening out any backlog in figures over the last few weeks. This process of deaths being added weeks after the event is no good.

I feel I would rather see one huge day even if it was 2000+ but then a more accurate and hopefully lower number from here in.

We need some positive numbers showing reductions,
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Not seen today's all settings deaths, what are they today?
 
England hospital data in last 24 hours.

Patients up 236 to 32, 925. This is slowing as some southern regions improve.

London though rose by most today - 154 and is at 7840. Way over the first wave numbers.

But the North West is still rising slowly too. Up 63 to 3912. By far the highest yet here too.

South West is also a big riser to 2129.

But East and South East and Yorkshire all fell. The South East by 90.



Ventilators rose today in England by 44 to 3351. This is at least a lower increase than recent days.

Everywhere apart from the SE and SW have gobe up but by modest amounts.

London up from 1138 to 1163 (despite nearly 400 hospital deaths reported in past 2 days here - many over past 48 hours).

North West up 11 to 343. Just 7 short of becoming the last region to have more on ventilators now than at any time in the pandemic so far.
 
abu13 said:
Sorry I didn't realise the hospital figures were out,
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They are always out around 2 pm every day. Every other nation just issues one figure. We have to wait several hours for England out of hospital data every day.

But no idea why they could not update all the other data they had for hours and add the England out of hospital deaths later.
 
shemnel said:
i think you might have something wrong there, either the start or end date, or something. where did you get the 4.4m?
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Well I may have, but I got it from here:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey: characteristics of people testing positive for COVID-19 in England and antibody data for the UK - Office for National Statistics

Characteristics of people testing positive for COVID-19 from the COVID-19 Infection Survey; antibody data by UK country, and region and occupation for England.
www.ons.gov.uk

"The analysis in this section of the article is based on blood test results taken from a randomly selected subsample of individuals aged 16 years and over, which are used to test for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. This can be used to identify individuals who have had the infection in the past."

"The estimate is weighted to be representative of the overall population, and suggests that an average of 3.9 million people aged 16 years and over in England would have tested positive".

They provide figures for the rest of the UK as well, totalling 4.4m.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
And yet absolutely fuck all is going to happen to China to investigate them, punish them or change their ways.

I doubt they’ll do any of their own internal changes of systems and laws neither.

New strains of flu will still come out of China every year as they always have, then in another decade something massive will happen again. Everyone will say “why were they not investigated back in 2020 and made to change?”
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China has 1/5 of the world's population in about 1/15th of the world's land so it's inevitable that many new strains of microorganisms develop in China.

What about the Kent variant. Should the UK be punished for this?
 
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