COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Scotland data up first:

0 deaths

159 new cases (at 1.9 %)

Avg daily number 155 up from 52 in past three weeks and % risen from under 1% to over 2% (though just below today happily).


274 in hospital (+7) and 6 on icu ventilators (same)



A week ago it was 1 death with 156 cases at 1% of tests, 258 in hospital (-5) and 5 on ventilator (-1).

As you can see hospital numbers are still rising and 16 up in a week. Biggest rise in months.

There is now no denying this is a pattern in Scotland and the North West and London after months of steadily falling hospital patient numbers.

And that the icu cases going back up in both nations has also become real and reversed the same months long trend of them going down.
 
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63 of todays cases from Greater Glasgow, 24 Lothian and 19 Lanarkshire - but again at least one case from every mainland health area.

Oh and for first time last week zero deaths in care homes.
 
The economy is too important to us all if i'm honest, we can't have another full scale lockdown we will lose so many jobs and ruin lives. Anyone who can work from home effectively should be made to do so until Spring will instantly make public transport better.

Needs to be more ways of shielding the elderly and disabled without them being lonely and alone for months on end.
Whilst I broadly agree, the industries that rely on office workers (eg Coffee shops, cafes, restaurants) will cease to exist. No one going into the city centres/town centres will mean the shops close down. No one using the public transport will result in huge losses for their operators, meaning operations will cease.

All of which will lead to bigger job losses than if "generally healthy" people go into the office, say 40-60% of the time. Difficult balancing job though.

Agree on the point about safely isolating the most vulnerable, but social care was already overstretched and inadequate.
 
Nicola Sturgeon says she will not blame anyone for the increases but cannot rule out having to delay easing restrictions and is considering doing what England has done in further restricting numbers who can 'gather'.

But wants to get things under control so they can eventually take 'further steps back towards normality'.
 
Whilst I broadly agree, the industries that rely on office workers (eg Coffee shops, cafes, restaurants) will cease to exist. No one going into the city centres/town centres will mean the shops close down. No one using the public transport will result in huge losses for their operators, meaning operations will cease.

All of which will lead to bigger job losses than if "generally healthy" people go into the office, say 40-60% of the time. Difficult balancing job though.

Agree on the point about safely isolating the most vulnerable, but social care was already overstretched and inadequate.

Public transport will still be used by people going to jobs where WFH is not an option, or people going shopping.
 
Nicola Sturgeon adds she is not surprised by the 'fatigue' people feel about six months of restrictions. She feels it herself. So not surprised people are 'finding it hard to comply' but it 'makes it more important' that she emphasise why this is a virus that 'takes every opportunity to spread' and 'doing nothing is not an option' and 'if we want to avoid another lockdown' people have to listen and respond to the request as it will just push us backwards not doing so.
 
Nicola Sturgeon 'do not assume that two sets of case numbers that look the same are driven in the same way'.

Talked of how different outbreaks need to be analysed and treated accordingly and the difference between the factory driven outbreak and one like in Greater Glasgow where there is no common source just a collection of smaller outbreaks adding up.

She will have meetings and decide today whether to introduce the same restrictions on numbers gathering that England announced yesterday.
 
Nicola skewered a journalist who asked why she did not just phone Matt Hancock and agree to jointly do what he announced yesterday as viruses do not respect borders.

She noted that had Scotland been aligned with England as suggested then there would be 30 people allowed to meet until the change down to 6 is introduced in England. Whereas Scotland has been 8 for some time!
 
Nicola more or less just stated that the football fans back in stadium trials (due to start this weekend with 300 at Aberdeen) is being reassessed and will make an announcement tomorrow.
 
Boris Johnson just said that he wants to move to every person in the UK taking a test every morning to see if they have Covid or not. At same time Matt Hancock says too many people are asking to have a test when they have no symptoms.
 
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