You will never ever stop the virus spreading, to try to is futile. Ask King Canute, he'll tell ya!
We should let the youngsters (under 60's) socialise and spread it, we apparently can deal with the relatively small number of extreme cases that are likely to occur in this age group.
If we focus care on Care Homes, the elderly and the vulnerable who need shielding but let the rest of the country go out and get it. Herd immunisation is the only way forward, else we will be doing this lockdown lark forever and a day!
The number of cases are up because the number of tests have increased. 100,000 tests 1000 new cases. 500,000 tests 5,000 new cases.... have new cases really increased? It's interesting to note that hospital admissions and intensive care cases have not followed the upward trend, kind of proves the point 0f the ratio of positive cases to the number of tests - this would be a much more meaningful metric!