COVID-19

Cases have risen since the last easing somewhat, but shouldn’t that be expected as people have more contact with each other? According to the BBC app deaths and hospitalisations continue to fall even though cases have risen, surely that means the vaccines are working, they’re not designed to completely wipe Covid out but to make it mild in those at risk which it looks like it is doing. I hope the government at least wait until 14th June and don’t crap their pants now just because cases have risen.

 

Agree with both posts I cant see any reason not to allow the next stage to go ahead maybe its just the BBC they enjoy their digs at Boris and the government.

As patients are brought into hospital can they detect which strain it is, and it was saying most hospitlised only had the one jab or none at all.

 

Number of deaths today within 28 days of a positive test, 1.

 

Yes good news I've just read it, we know weekends are different but low figures should allow more easing.

 

weekend numbers for deaths are becoming pointless as hospitals have stopped notifying on a weekend and put them all through on the Monday, that include Bradford Teaching hospitals. Some of the nations don’t report deaths every day either. Best to look at the seven day average.
Still not high enough to stop anything but better than looking at one day, Friday was 10

 

There is still two weeks before they are making the announcement so plenty of time to see if figures do go up much more.

They can only tell which strain if they check the strain but as far as I know it isn’t done for every positive case

 

Even if the June date is agreed I wouldn’t expect everything to be back to exactly the way it was 24 months ago. I still expect some rules to be in place

 

AT LAST...0 DEATHS ANNOUNCED....that's 1 over last 2 days........

 

And that wasn’t in England

 

Numbers in hospital and numbers on ventilation are at the lowest since middle of September surely that is good enough to relax

 

Nah, I'm sure they will be able to find some fella in Leicester who has come down with a new fangled quadruple variant from Uzbekistan.

Everybody back inside. Tell your friends you'll see them next year and brush up on your home schooling ladies and gentlemen.

 

But the third wave, the Indian variant, not everyone has been double jabbed.

I think a double mask rule should be brought in just to be safe.

 

Can’t believe selfish people are still leaving the house.
#lockdownmeanzlockdown

 

Just been looking through the usual media suspects home pages, Guardian, BBC, Sun etc.

They were all full off these types of stories this morning "Scientist says, blah, blah blah" doom and gloom type stuff.

They're all become a bit more tricky to find in the last half hour weirdly enough.

 

Who’s this Ravi Gupta cokwomble that’s looking for his moment in the spotlight?
Away with you, no mark.

 

Full gimp masks should be mandatory.

 

Full gimp suit if you don't mind!!

 

is that the same Ravi Gupta who cured HIV infections using stem cell transplantation? If so I think he has already had time in medical spotlight

 

And yet if you Google him you struggle to find mention of his excellent work on HIV. Just his doom and gloom on reopening.