Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Churchlawtonblue]

When you look at India and the daily figures something doesn't add up. Runs riot here but a country with over 1 billion population only has 67k cases a day, our offshore workers have gone back into the office in Bangalore.

They probably only test a tiny fraction of the people that have covid in India, Its a very different country to the UK.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

So why have we still got any restrictions?

to slow down the spread and give the vaccination programme a chance to vaccinate everyone. We would have had more breathing space if the Gov had followed the science and put india on the red list.

 

[Healdplace]

Of 1317 infections in Scotland

43 are in people aged 65+ (feels like only yesterday that this number was in the low single digits, it's sadly growing as overall case numbers accelerate)
202 in people aged 45-64

471 in people aged 25-44
596 in people aged 0-25 (Inclusive of 229 aged 0-14)

Ayrshire and arran up double week on week from 52 to 104

Greater Glasgow huge increase week on week from 205 to 372

Lanarkshire up more than treble week on week from 51 to 161.

Grampian likewise from 17 to 64

I think any early thoughts of this being a 'bump' or starting to plateau have sadly evaporated. Realise there was a data error last week but they specifically stated this only accounted for 150-200 cases overall, so it's not pretty regardless of how you dress it up.

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4 deaths

2 aged 75-84
1 aged 65-74
1 aged 45-64

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20k first doses
22k second doses

Still quite slow on the vaccine process given what we're up against.

Still in line with N Ireland though. About 3 % when the over 60s in N I is around 4%.

 

[Len Rum]

Delta variant really showing its teeth now...what an absolute mess

All because some guy wanted a trip to India.

 

[Healdplace]

North West AND GM really took a leap up today. No idea where from.

NW total UP 701 on the day to a giant 2858 - highest daily jump I can recall.

Unfortunately 416 of that rise were in Greater Manchester to its highest total since last winter - way up on recent good numbers here. And above expectations of around 50% of the NW increase.

Week to week the rise in the NW was 882 and in GM was 357.

That is actually quite a lot better as it is well below 50% of the NW rise.

Every other region up too (will post ful list in a bit as usual)

Nobody anything like the NW though sadly. Though London now 1225 and Yorkshire at 941 are up notably again,

South West had yet abother big rise though. Looks like those hot weather trips to the West Country might be a factor as they wk to wk here have now gone in past month:-

65 to 132 to 384 to TODAY 837 - a staggering number for the smallest region. And more than a 12 times rise in the past 3 weeks

 

[BerkshireBlue]

By 'other' I take they mean size of a house.

No comment ;)

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Still in line with N Ireland though. About 3 % when the over 60s in N I is around 4%.

Yeah % wise fine but as overall figure grows the actual number becomes concerning all the same. The 1300 today isn't far off 50% of the peak in January.

On another note, I read earlier that hospital admissions (UK) are running about 4% of all cases with a 10 day lag. So for example if there were 1000 cases in the UK today, in 10 days time there would be approximately 40 admissions.

 

[N1985]

this is
not good. Really hope the deaths don't keep going up..

The deaths will be mainly made up from unvaccinated adults ones that have refused to be jabbed. Heard first hand now off 2 people working at Bolton and MRI that the people long staying in hospital and dying haven't been vaccinated at all. The government are absolutely correct, vaccination is the only way out of this.

 

[Tonster]

Yeah % wise fine but as overall figure grows the actual number becomes concerning all the same. The 1300 today isn't far off 50% of the peak in January.

On another note, I read earlier that hospital admissions (UK) are running about 4% of all cases with a 10 day lag. So for example if there were 100 cases in the UK today, in 10 days time there would be approximately 40 admissions.

4 admissions not 40

 

[True_Blue69]

You obviously don’t do irony.

Sorry hard to tell in plain text!