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Interesting news from NHS Wales.

They had their lowest data yet yesterday.

Only 6 patients admitted in the entire country. All were from the Cardiff area.

They also note that many admitted as suspected or after a test end up being negated after a second test.

And only one case from one other health board apart from Cardiff was even admitted in the last few days.

These are the lowest hospital numbers in Wales since they started recording them 14 months ago.
 
Healdplace said:
Interesting news from NHS Wales.

They had their lowest data yet yesterday.

Only 6 patients admitted in the entire country. All were from the Cardiff area.

They also note that many admitted as suspected or after a test end up being negated after a second test.

And only one case from one other health board apart from Cardiff was even admitted in the last few days.

These are the lowest hospital numbers in Wales since they started recording them 14 months ago.
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As I said earlier how will the media play this one after their over egging the zero yesterday - though it was all but inevitable and not the big disaster it seems.

Just a little concerning as it emphasises the rise I said earlier I was actually seeing in the past week in the actual Emgland hospital death data that they all missed by just going off the rather misleading number yesterday.

Small as the rise is (though it is the first TRIPLING week to week in ages) and that there was always going to be a catch up from the long weekend.

ENGLAND HOSPITAL DEATHS 18 today. 5 from the NW.

Last week 6 with 1, wk before 11 with 2 and wk before 25 with 1 NW
 
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Northern Ireland data:

A NATION THAT MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER BANNING TRAVEL FROM THE UK!

Only joking but the difference here is stunning and sadly where England and Scotland would likely be now pro rata had we not been so slow over flights from India.

0 deaths - was 0 last week

84 cases - was 66 last week

3.6% positivity - waa 2.9% last week

7 day rolling cases 484 - was 460 yesterday & 540 last week

2 Care Home outbreaks - was 4 yesterday & last week

17 patients - down 3 on yesterday - was 28 last week

0 ventilated - was 0 yesterday & 1 last week

THis is about as close to zero covid as I think the rest of us could ever dream
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Don't encourage them @Healdplace , we're heading over there to tour the beautiful Antrim coast in July !
 
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My eldest lad (21, no health issues) just got invite to appointment in Sheffield in a week. Cheered him up a bit after Saturday when he watched the game on his mobile phone outside the Etihad.

They're really motoring now.
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The last seven days of 5 day total deaths in England hospitals has risen for the first time in weeks.

That total over recent weeks was 63 V 34 V 29 V THIS WEEK 31

So a slight uptick only.

BUT every day since then is up slightly week to week so we will have to wait and see if that is a blip only.

Even if it is an actual increase filtering through from the rising England case numbers as of yet it is not a noticeable problem. Just something to watch.
 
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Don't encourage them @Healdplace , we're heading over there to tour the beautiful Antrim coast in July !
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There is no way they will do so. UK and all that. But I imagine the Irish Sea acted as a better barrier to the India variant than the brain power of our collective cabinet.

Indeed Wales may get pretty peeved if their superb numbers are compromised as there are already signs they are being in and around the North Wales borders.

We can hope the NW squashes this as fast as Bolton seems to have done thus minimising the impact of any spread.

Though the fact Wales is not seeing a rise in patient numbers yet from that spread may mean that the variant will not ever translate into a signifcant uptick in hospital numbers as we race it to the finish line on vaccinations.

That is the good outcome we all hope to see in coming weeks.
 
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677 infections in Scotland

22 of them in people aged 65+***

98 in people aged 45-64

212 aged 25-44
340 aged 0-24

***As you can see, the overwhelming majority of these cases are in younger age groups. But as the overall case numbers increase, so too does the raw number of cases in over 65s. 22 people from 677 cases, but how many per day when that figure accelerates to 2500+ cases, and how many of them require hospital treatment? Combined with the vulnerable younger people that's how beds will fill up and this is the risk we face.
 
Healdplace said:
There is no way they will do so. UK and all that. But I imagine the Irish Sea acted as a better barrier to the India variant than the brain power of our collective cabinet.

Indeed Wales may get pretty peeved if their superb numbers are compromised as there are already signs they are being in and around the North Wales borders.

We can hope the NW squashes this as fast as Bolton seems to have done thus minimising the impact of any spread.

Though the fact Wales is not seeing a rise in patient numbers yet from that spread may mean that the variant will not ever translate into a signifcant uptick in hospital numbers as we race it to the finish line on vaccinations.

That is the good outcome we all hope to see in coming weeks.
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You were only allowed to travel to NI from the rest of the UK for very exceptional reasons in 2021 until that decree was lifted only last week on 27th May.
 
That's exactly the problem we have been trying to explain. Ayrshire, but many do not see yet.

We can sustain a cases rise to a certain degree much better than before because of the vaccination protection. But beyond a certain level of rise the sheer numbers lead to a need to take stock until everyone is vaccinated.

It is finding that balance point that we need to watch the numbers very careful over the next two weeks.

It may be we need a bit more time. But I am still optimistic we are getting there and should not compromise arriving at that destination safely by catching a faster train via an uknown track just because it promises to get us there 10 minutes earlier.
 
England 18 hospital deaths data:

2 of them are older than the past 28 days. All the rest in the past week.

Regionally :- East 1, London 5. Midlands 4, NE & Yorkshire 2, North West 5, South East 1 South West 0

Two of the deaths were in Bolton.

The other NW ones were 1 each in Blackpool, Mid Cheshire and Pennine Acute.

Age ranges of deaths:- 1 aged 20 - 39, 1 aged 40 - 59, 7 aged 60 - 79 and 9 Over 80.
 
4330 cases 12 all settings deaths - up 1165 in day.

653, 488 pillar 1 & 2 tests

Up 68,000 on yesterday when there were cases 3165 cases

But 74,000 down on last week when there were 3180 cases

Today is the highest case number since April Fool's Day.
 
Bolton sadly back up both day to day and week to week. Though not by a lot.

149 cases - up 51 on yesterday and just 5 on last Wednesday.
 
Netherlands had halted its use of the J&J vaccine, which given its Dutch origins is a blow. Unclear whether this decision is but a moratorium, suspect not, so it will inevitably slow the roll out.
 
To nobody's surprise I am sure the NW is far away the biggest contributer again.

1158 of the UK cases (more than a quarter) just in the region. That is 378 up on yesterday and 413 on last Wednesday.

Next nearest is London - up nearly 200 to 573.

The rest well behind.

Yorkshire just 363 and getting through this much better than its neighbour. Its last month;s numbers have been

342 - 321 - 335 and 363 today.

The NW has been 400 - 459 - 745 - 1158

Which says it all.

But also the first day in a while that NONE of the regions posted numbers under 100.

THe North East has not a few times lately due to the problems in Tyne & Wear

But the South West was up at 128 today as well
 
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