Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Healdplace]

Those 8489 cases are from 653, 436 pillar 1 & 2 tests.

Versus yesterday's 567, 541 finding 2151 more cases than today.

That is just 1.3% positivity today. Lowest ever.

These numbers are rather meaningless given what now counts as a pillar 1 and 2 test and I suspect it is now around 3 times this at least. But it is very probably well below 5% in real terms now. The number WHO declare for having a pandemic under control.

 

[Healdplace]

I like these hit by a bus references. They are normally made by boxers and their followers on social media.

Sadly I know from family first hand that you can be a Covid death even when it is 90% sure Covid did not actually kill you.

But yes it is exaggeration to make a point. Hopefully not literally true.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

 

[Healdplace]

7292 cases from England today is the lowest since 2 October.

 

[Healdplace]

UK cases week to week in 2021

60, 916 v 45, 533 v 33, 355 v 20. 089 v 16, 840 v 12, 364 v 10, 625 v 8489 Today

 

[Rammy Blue]

Get the pubs (and golf courses) open!

 

[Healdplace]

Just for completion Northern Ireland data

5 deaths - was 9 last week

225 cases - was 341 last week

12.2% positivity - was 18.5 last week

Seven day rolling cases total 1929 - first time below 2000 this year - was 2070 last week.

46 care home outbreaks - up 2 on yesterday - was 78 last week

376 patients - down 10 on yesterday - was 474 last week

39 ventilated - down 2 on yesterday - was 45 last week

 

[Healdplace]

Regional Scoreboard:


Good news and Bad News

Every region except one is below 1000 cases today for the first time in about 4 or 5 months.

No prizes for guessing the one region that is not.

You got it - North West.

However, the good news is that it fell by the biggest amount of anyone today.

A whopping 710 - all the way to 1216.

That is the lowest North West number in 70 days - mid December.

 

[Healdplace]

That NW total is 14% (one in 7) of all the cases in the UK today.

And 17% of all the cases in England

 

[sky tot]

We’ve scrapped abroad just booked 10 days in Whitby end of July, stayed there before an old traditional fisherman’s cottage right in the centre lovely location

I liked Whitby , cracking kippers from there . Also liked the brewery up near the ruins .