Supermarkets sell that though don't they? plus the online services.

More details of coronavirus lockdown:

Northern Ireland health minister Robin Swann gives a glimps of what we can expect to be announced tonight across UK

He's talking about the closure of 'non-essential shops' and 'enforced social distancing'

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) March 23, 2020

Reports of 320 new deaths in Lombardy down from 361 yesterday

Have seen it mentioned a lot of times how Italy has an old population compared to other countries but not seen any figures put on this. Italy apparently has 22% over 65 while the UK has 18%. Area (I think this might be judged by constituencies) with the highest proportion of over 65s in the UK is apparently North Norfolk with 32%. From looking at a commons website I think the area I live in south London has 8.5% , doesn't seem to be an easy way to access the percent for all areas at once from what I can see.

Yes, this is another different factor for London vs Milano, London has a much younger population and that should make a difference.

New deaths in Lombardy are trending in the right direction at last. Long may this continue

Saturday - 546 - Currently daily high
Sunday - 362
Monday - 320

Indeed, let's hope this becomes a trend. 

I don't think that it's just your figures - all virus figures are suspect. For example, they are very much dependent on how many tests each country is doing. I think that some trends can be gleaned about individual countries. The Italian figures are very encouraging, though, unless there's been a reduction in tests there, which is unlikely.

I don't think that you can trust death figures either(at least not when comparing countries) - different countries may attribute deaths to diseases brought on by the virus as opposed to being directly caused by the virus.  

Er, he didn't realise how important various people are just because they didnt get a large wage?

"Would [Patel] consider that once we're through this situation, we review our points based immigration system to reflect the things we've learn during this time?".
Patel says he makes a "very, very important point" and that all aspects of the new system are "under review".

— Benjamin Kentish LBC (@BenKentish) March 23, 2020

I think it's mostly a case of us not fully understanding the data and not appreciating the complexities.  Even within one country there will be unanswered (unanswerable) questions; when you're comparing one country with another it's even more suspect.

Tests: how many, on whom, where.

Fatalities: where the patient had pre-existing conditions is Covid-19 listed as the cause of death or is it the underlying condition.  

Even when a death is attributed to Covid-19 it's not possible to say categorically that it was the sole reason. The spectrum of symptoms from nothing to severe says to met that the way the virus and the body interact is not straightforward.

Yes, and there is also the point that Italian families are more close knit and there is/was greater interaction across generations, hence more transmission within families to older relatives.

Yes, I've never understood the suggested correlation between pay levels and job importance.  

46 new deaths reported in England this afternoon.

I thought yesterday was 48?

The total is 303 if that's any help.

I take it that's just England 

Yesterdays total was 281 

I wish they would report the UK figure as the headline. Would be much easier to track. 

Wasn't that a UK total though ?