Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Yesterday 579, 447 tests for 9938 cases

Today 718, 063 tests for 9985 cases

Obviously a much lower positivity today however you work it out as so many tests are now lateral flow it is hard to keep proper track of this number.

The numbers above are ONLY the pillar 1 and 2 tests. But lateral flow are now included as part of that.

The raw numbers are absurdly low 1.7% yesterday v 1.4% today - but it is likely today is lower and both are well under 5% in 'real' terms. Though I would not take the raw numbers more seriously than that. As Scotland and Wales have numbers nothing like this low (though only 2 or 3 times more) and N Ireland is about 10 times more. All using different ways.
 
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KS55 said:
Correct. The trouble with polititians is that they politicise everything. Macron is also the leader most worried about the effect of Brexit and his exasperation with us spilled over. Very poor form.
Also, some irresponsible stuff in the German press. Medics pulling their hair out, but the damage is done.
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If they’re pulling their hair out, maybe they’ve a right to be reticent!?!
 
Ric said:
Covid alert level has been lowered from 5 to 4. Not sure if that's especially meaningful though?
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It's an assessment of risk of NHS being overwhelmed, isn't it ? Reflects the good news of fast reducing hospital numbers, though as you say not meaningful to start highlighting an alert level we last heard about some 6 months ago.

I think we've been a bit bombarded with stats, tiers, ratios and alert levels, without necessarily being consistently told the most important ones that @Healdplace and others bring us daily here.
 
Another positive effect of the vaccine can be seen in the UK death figures which after a disastrous January are now coming much closer to EU countries in terms of absolute numbers and deaths per capita.
Also the UK has dropped one place in the global death per capita figures now lying 4th behind Belgium, Slovenia and Czechia. It is a big stretch to Italy though who lie currently fifth and we will have to wait and see if the UK's better vaccine roll out will further improve our position.
 
I don't want to sound negative... but wouldn't the death and infection figures be this low anyway because we've been in lockdown so long ? especially now 2 months after the xmas gatherings, most after that have roughly adhered the rules and stayed in and isolated - I'm really happy that they're dropping fast, but surely this is expected with or without the vaccine.
 
Regional Scoreboard highlights:

For the first time in a while the North West did NOT have the most cases today.

Fell exactly 300 to 1212 and 4 lower than 3 days ago and the lowest since pre Christmas.

A rapidly climbing East Midlands at 1353 was the highest.

And West Midlands at 1201 was only 11 below NW.

These two Midlands regions are up top in the weekly Pop scores too for England and seem to be starting to take over as the real hot spot.

Yorkshire at 1144 only 9 down on yesterday was also the closest in numbers to the NW (only 68 apart) than for weeks.

North East fell again to 420 - its lowest in weeks. And the lowest in the UK for first time in ages.

The southern regions all sub 1000 again.

East up 128 to 900, London down 33 to 919, South East up 51 to 994 and South West up 47 to 432.

So very good day for North West - hopefully turning the corner.

We just need the Midlands to do the same and see all the 9 regions below 1000.
 
True_Blue69 said:
The masses going to beaches in Britain over summer reportedly had no impact on cases so hopefully that will be the same. Doesn’t seem to spread at all outside.
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I guess wind will have played a part here. beaches tend to be quite breezy. plus we were at very low levels ( sub 1000 a day ) at that point too which is probably why Boris said he wanted to get under 1k a day before losening lockdowns. Low cases + outdoors = OK as OK can be.

Holland ( and a few other places ) however is showing 3rd wave starting so gatherings like that ( no masks, no social distancing ) will be a bad thing.

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Greater Manchester highlights:

The good news was shared in GM to degree too.

Down 139 - nearly half the NW fall - to 553 only 3 above the lowest in 2021 scored two days ago.

This is 45.6% of the NW total and it has stabilised around here which is a reasonably good approximation of where GM should be population wise.

However, the truly good news is that for the first day in a long time EVERY borough in GM was under 100.

Even Manchester at 81 - its lowest number in many weeks. Certainly lowest this year.

Every borough was between 28 (who else but Trafford that low!) and 81 - smallest spread in ages too.

Wigan (up 7 to 70), Stockport (up 5 to 66) and Oldham (up 13 to 54) had less good days and were all up week to week damaging their weekly Pop scores a bit. And Trafford is over the hills and far away with Stockport's once prized best Pop Score across the pandemic - 65 clear at 6552 to Stockport's 6617.

But relatively speaking just a niggle on a very good day.

Still if everyone else did whatever Trafford is doing right the pandemic would be all but over.
 
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Healdplace said:
BBC News reporting now on the huge negative impact in Europe on the many declining to have the AZ jab because of the negative publicity.

A million doses sitting unused that should be saving lives.

A huge vaccination clinic in Belgium empty and having just 1 person in an hour as they were using AZ and the rest did not show.

The French health minister even was given AZ just to try to convince people!

The day we just have 'the' vaccine and it matters not who made it the better.

I have had the flu jab for over 20 years and not the foggiest idea who made any of them or if they were different companies year to year as likely they were.

This 'choice' and PR war is skewing this pandemic badly. And will kill people unfortunately.
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Utter madness from the EU..heads will roll
 
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