In the Bristol area where you are or further afield?

An hour out

Daily new cases in both Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen since mid July 2020.


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Denmark opens up for vaccinated Brits today, growing the list of countries opening to fully vaccinated people, yet our government doesn't even recognize vaccines and continues to keep hundreds of thousands of people out of work in the travel industry and industries affected by no travel happening. On top of this, more cities in the north of England are classed as places to 'minimise travel'.

Even Australia, with the toughest of restrictions are now talking about a pilot for vaccinated people to be able to travel internationally without quarantine, yet here - nothing.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d8b53f6e53.png

Source: TheTimes
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Daily data:

Cases 6,048 (3,383 last Tuesday)
Deaths 13 (0)
Patients admitted 126 (127 on the 26th)
Patients in hospital 957 (300 on the 30th)
Patients in ventilation beds 148 (122 on the 31st)
People vaccinated up to and including 07 June 2021:
First dose: 40,573,517
Second dose: 28,227,362

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now up 60.6% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 67.4%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 10.3 today.

As someone from the US, it sure seems like it :). I've seen a number of people in this thread talk about testing daily, or testing any time they go and see someone else. That's kinda mind-boggling to me. Of course, you folks do have the free testing kits available to you, while here, although you can get tested for free, you still have to go somewhere to get it done.

Personally, I've had 1 test since this started, this was required before going in for some surgery. I'm also kinda skeptical that it makes a lot of sense to be doing widespread testing of people that have no symptoms at all. (Note, when I say that, I'm not including testing for travel, I'm willing to acknowledge that there's at least some more basis for doing that.). Even for those that are having symptoms, I'm not necessarily convinced that being tested really makes a huge amount of sense if they're the minor symptoms that many get that never develop into anything else - now that said, if you're having symptoms, then stay home, I don't care if it's covid or some other illness, but realistically, it doesn't matter which it is, so the test is of little real use. Given that it's a known issue that over here multiple positive tests from a single person get counted as new cases, all it's doing is help the government try to scare people.

And monetarily, I'd far rather see the money be going into getting people vaccinated. Earlier this year, when they were starting to really ramp up the vaccination process, they had a point in our state where they'd allocated $500m for testing, and $50m for vaccination. I always thought those numbers were backwards and should have been swapped.

Of course, here, we're never going to hit the vaccination numbers that you folks will. I think in my state we're getting close to 60% of adults fully vaccinated (theoretically 60% is the next step in our reopening scale, and I haven't heard we've hit that yet, but that reopening scheme has largely gone out the window anyways). We just have way too many idiots here that simply won't take the vaccine. And it's not just one end of the political spectrum like some people here in the US like to claim, there's plenty of those idiots on both ends. Given that here vaccination is open to anyone that wants the shots, with no restrictions other than the 12+ that it's currently approved for, patience is kinda wearing thin on the part of those who have been vaccinated on having to put up with restrictions that are in place because of people that haven't been. While I recognize that there are people that can't get the vaccine for medical reasons, they're always going to have to do something to protect themselves against this and many other things. But at some point, sorry, I just don't feel it's my responsibility to have to cater to those that can but choose not to get vaccinated.

^^^
Charts from gov.uk for the whole of the UK since the beginning of the pandemic for:

Cases
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...3a124949e1.jpg


Hospitalisations
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...a84ae9b4b8.jpg

Deaths
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0c9ba9125b.jpg

The 7-day case rate per 100,000 people is now 45.8, up from 30 a week ago and 19.4 a month ago.

Hi,

Is there an error in the number of daily cases as the BBC is quoting the govt figure as 6048?

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Regards

TBS

Yes, it's 6,048.

Daily summary | Coronavirus in the UK (data.gov.uk)

Yes, I was in a rush today after a long drive up to north east Rwanda...

That is a shame, I was very pleasantly surprised by a number in the order of 3k again... Oh well

Just to add to the discussion, there is a study out of Newcastle identifying a genetic variant (in the HLA cluster for those of a biological bent, in simpler terms part of our genome that is linked to immune response) linked to asymptomatic covid - three times more than in symptomatic covid so much more likely to be spreading covid without knowing so. It is more common in North and Western Europe. May be contributing to different rates of spread in different populations,

Would this mean it’s not causing medical problems and thus is a good thing?