The biggest effect on yesterday's tests and cases will have been the weather, a huge area of England and Wales had it's biggest snowfall of the winter, so less will have been going out to get tests, and probably less staff to conduct tests as well.
yes valid point - still all seems to be moving in a better direction?
592 all settings deaths and 22, 195 cases!
Has to be very low testing as that is welcome but unexpected.
As suspected 394, 479. it is low.
Even so 5.6% positivity is tremendous news. Matching the falling positivity numbers in the other home nations.
It was 465, 231 yesterday (Saturday data) for 30, 004 cases = 6.4 % positive
And 608, 829 (Friday data) for 33, 552 cases = 5,5% positive
These are just pillar 1 & 2 tests. It would be even lower with other tests added, which I never include.
No wonder we have a press conference at 5 pm!
Though it is Sunday data and deaths are always low as a result.
Even so it is down 7 from 599 all settings last Monday.
We may be close to or even at the plateau of this wave.
It's a single days numbers, so I'm cautious about trusting a single day's cases.
It's obviously going in the right direction, but to put it into context today's case number is on par with what we were getting from the middle of October, when there was no lockdown, but it forced one for November.
I class the midlands as south....Beat me to it :-(
It wasn't just the south, much of the Midlands had snow all day yesterday.