COP26 may well make it trend up a lot more!

Daily data:

Cases 41,278 (44,985 last Saturday)
Deaths 166 (135)
People vaccinated up to and including 29 October 2021:
First dose: 49,922,090
Second dose: 45,672,948
Booster: 7,564,423

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 14.2% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 17.5%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 156.7 today.

And that is with a big Scottish number (some backlog?).

I don't see any reason why there would be a backlog for Scotland, but it is possible. 3,867 cases today compared with an average of 2,500 on previous days. Wales does not report today which brings the total down. The drop in England is significant compared with a week ago - 36,204 against 41,259.

In the strongest hint I’ve yet seen that HMG, through DCMS, is actively looking to impose additional entry requirements for large scale events, yesterday the Club I hold a season ticket at - Norwich City - issued some fairly stark language around the potential for vaccination/testing becoming mandatory in the future. Now this will have come down through the Premier League, who I doubt will be particularly impressed, but it’s very likely to extend to the Football League and perhaps down a couple of tiers of the game as well.

Given this is in a low risk area of outside for 99% of the time, it’s inconceivable it won’t be extended to nightclubs and maybe beyond to licensed premises.

Full article at https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/c...row-road-leeds.

The Glasgow Lighthouse Laboratory - the largest one inside Scotland - had an outage on Thursday so that day's figures were lower than normal, whereas today's figure is higher as they have more-or-less caught up with the backlog. Today's Scotland figure should have been around 2300 today but for that, but obviously the midweek figure was lower as a result. A lot of PCRs were sent on to Gateshead instead so Sunday's figure will be a bit higher too then Monday should be normal. It only has a minor impact given the English levels of infection, the UK 1 week over 2 week percentage is now 46.65% which is encouraging.

Daily data:

Cases 38,009 (39,962 last Sunday)
Deaths 74 (72)
People vaccinated up to and including 30 October 2021:
First dose: 49,955,853
Second dose: 45,697,856
Booster: 7,925,851

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 13.5% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 15.8%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 157.0 today.

I've been to a small venue in East London last weekend, and I'm going to O2 Brixton during the week, both sent out strong messages beforehand saying that a covid pass was required (fully vaxxed or NHS LFD) to enter. I think concert venues in London are going above and beyond government requirements here and asking for these anyway.

I noticed that the new production of Cabaret at the Playhouse in London - with Eddie Redmayne as Emcee - requires the audience to have a COVID pass of some description. The production sounds fairly immersive, trying to create the Kit Kat club via the audience, with some of them eating and drinking on stage around the performance. Vaccination certification and/or testing is fairly common in theatre land now.

having spent all of october around europe (portugal, netherlands, italy, greece) every restaurant that i dined inside required the "green pass" which was hit or miss being NHS vaccinated.

• in italy i had to explain i was from the UK and my vaccination PDF that has two QR codes was for both vaccinations
• in netherlands, we had to be tested each day (for free) to get a live QR code that was scanned in every restaurant we entered (live as in there is an animation at the bottom so its hard to re-use
• in portugal they didnt have many questions, likely due to so many brits(?)
• in greece, they definitely checked each time, but also understood the NHS version

the kicker is my parents who are vaccinated in the US had no follow up questions showing their CDC cards...i think because the NHS produces a QR code, they all think they can just scan it and it will work, which obviously for the last month it did not.

overall, it is not any extra burden aside from having to argue for my own benefit that im from the UK and fully vaccinated as of early june, meaning if it happens here, it would be very easy and uncomplicated i'd think/hope.

the other annoying thing is my parents got their booster shots in late septembe... only because in italy they fixated on the third jab date to figure out the 14 day period after which does not matter since it is only 14 days after the second jab...but the whole booster thing is understandably unknown.

I've been to the theatre twice in the past month, in the West End, and in both cases a covid pass or test result was a condition of entry. The audience was also asked to wear face coverings during the performance although, without the backing of the law, compliance was less than total, starting out at about 80% and falling (somewhat understandably) to around 60% by the end of the long performance.

Here in Wales, of course, covid passes will be required by law to enter cinemas, theatres and concert halls from 15 November.

I've also been twice in the last month (once to the West End, once to the Barbican). The Barbican really stood out in sending an email talking about taking health seriously, but had no testing and I would estimate fewer than 10% of people being masked. I won't be going back any time soon.

This is pretty much what I experienced back in August when I went to a couple of theatres in London. Vaccination or negative test was a condition of entry, and masks were strongly advised, but nobody checked my Covid pass at either, and I was one of a handful of people wearing a mask. I really don't understand the latter, you're sat down doing nothing, I hardly notice I'm wearing a mask in those circumstances.

Daily data:

Cases 40,077 (36,567 last Monday)
Deaths 40 (38)
Patients admitted 1,090 (1,089 on the 19th)
People vaccinated up to and including 31 October 2021:
First dose: 49,987,325
Second dose: 45,712,351
Booster: 8,115,229

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 8.9% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 16.9%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 157.3 today.

Daily data:

Cases 33,865 (40,954 last Tuesday)
Deaths 293 (263)
Patients admitted 1,002 (929 on the 22nd)
Patients in hospital 9,538 (8,762 on the 25th)
Patients in ventilation beds 1,030 (913 on the 25th)
People vaccinated up to and including 1 November 2021:
First dose: 50,025,020
Second dose: 45,731,565
Booster: 8,356,172

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 10.4% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 15.2%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 161.6 today. The deaths figure for today includes some from England that were missed yesterday.