We’re dropping again in infection rates and places in the tables. The new cases definitely look to be tailing off now.
Johnson, Witty and Vallance to give press announcement at 5pm. Hopefully it's to say how well the vaccine's are going, and to stress the importance of sticking to the guidance for a few weeks yet. I'd much rather be in a pub in a few weeks,grumbling about what happened than still walking past the locked doors.
Equally likely they'll be on about the Brazilian variant and how we might be locked down longer because not enough people are following the rules.
Data from the Zoe app looking more hopeful, after the expected Christmas rise things starting to fall quite rapidly, so much for the mutant strain London is down to R rate of 0.8 now so would fully expect the mutant virus strain to run out of steam elsewhere in a few weeks Youngsters having a bit of fun in Leeds which will proberbly shock some on here
You would prefer they were locked inside 4 walls all day being miserable and depressed ? There were all youngsters with near enough zero chance of getting ill and passing it on They were outside so once again zero risk of transmission, theres some proper miserable people on here !
The experts have just said in the press conference that by far and above the majority of people are doing the right thing and following the guidance. Next slide please.
Well not zero, but safer than having a snowball fight indoors though. You can bugger off with your ‘supporting people from Leeds’ antics though
...aand I'll take any excuse... I'm about to take up the challenge from my Leeds supporting neighbour to a water fight. I'm just waiting for the kettle to boil, and I'm right on it.
But they say immunity gained from having Covid runs out after 5 months, so I reckon you're back in the **** with the rest of us now.
From the press conference: Middle of February is the first review, assuming that the 'at risk' groups are vaccinated. The review will look at the rates at that time, and what form the disease is taking. Based on that, they'll look to see if restrictions can be lifted in anyway, and it will be very much a slow, layered reduction on restrictions, with the impacts being assessed before they're lifted further. Peaks of infections liable to have already occurred in most of the Country, peak of hospitalisations lags that, and is possibly round about now, with deaths peaking over the next few weeks in parts of the Country. This is largely because people are largely sticking to the guidelines, so we must keep sticking to them. Seems sensible to me. Keep it strict, and bin it off.