At the time I thought it was totally absurd to allow that match to proceed, Saint. Prof John Ashton, who is a Liverpool fan, made reference to this when he appeared on Question Time the following night.  IIRC, Spanish domestic football was playing played behind closed doors for some time before then.

The following night, there were a few thousand German fans in Glasgow for the first leg of the Rangers v Bayer Leverkusen Europa tie which the Germans won 3-1 (this was Rangers last match before the shutdown). This was after German authorities had made the decision to now allow any fans to travel from Scotland to Germany the following week for the return leg.

UEFA has been as complacent in all this as any government has in this crisis.

Originally Posted by: David M Porter 

All that drinking I guess 

Originally Posted by: Sevendust 

Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the effect of social-distancing measures had prompted him to revise his projections.

“The real data are telling us it is highly likely we are having a definite positive effect by the mitigation things that we’re doing, this physical separation,” Dr Fauci said in an interview with NBC on Thursday.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Good news

Slight devil's advocate: I have to say that all this stuff makes my causation/correlation OCD twitch a bit. It does seem very probable that the lockdown is the cause of the reduction but it's hard be certain, really hard to quantify the effect and probably impossible to tell which bits of a lockdown are the most effective. This will make the effect of any approach on releasing lockdowns very tough to predict.

Originally Posted by: pfw 

I was out in Alton at 8pm last night on my exercise walk and there was no clapping

Originally Posted by: Sevendust 

From the BBC ticker:
"China denies 'cover-up' and defends WHO
The Chinese government has rejected “unfair and unjust” allegations that it tried to “cover up” the coronavirus outbreak in the city where it began.
Zhao Lijian, a foreign ministry spokesman, said China had been “open, transparent and responsible” in informing the world about the epidemic.
He said it “took us some time before we knew more about” the virus, which was officially first detected in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei province, late last year.
China is widely considered to have concealed the extent, severity and even existence of Covid-19 during the early stages of the outbreak".

I thought their own doctors were shouting out saying they had something very bad there, but the govt there tried to silence.

Originally Posted by: Phil G 

 Although I'm strongly favour of the lockdown in the UK (and would be tempted to tighten even more)

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Italy 

• 4,204 new cases


• 610 new deaths

New cases up 368
New deaths up 68

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

Well hopefully he'll sober up very quickly when he takes on board what I've explained to him

Originally Posted by: llamedos 

I actually think the balance is pretty correct at the moment. 

The issue is one of enforcement. The universal softly-softly approach isn't deterring those selfish pillocks who blatantly flout the restrictions (they mainly seem to fall into two categories, at different ends of the social spectrum). There needs to be tougher punishments on the more serious transgressions like parties, organised gatherings and second-home jollies.

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

Pretty clear that we are not yet at the peak if you look at CC admissions

Originally Posted by: Justin W 

I actually think the balance is pretty correct at the moment. 

The issue is one of enforcement. The universal softly-softly approach isn't deterring those selfish pillocks who blatantly flout the restrictions (they mainly seem to fall into two categories, at different ends of the social spectrum). There needs to be tougher punishments on the more serious transgressions like parties, organised gatherings and second-home jollies.

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

19,438 patients were in hospital in the UK yesterday with Covid-19 Dominic Raab has today said it's 16,784 today. Has he missed off hospitals outside of England or are things improving?

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

19,438 patients were in hospital in the UK yesterday with Covid-19 Dominic Raab has today said it's 16,784 today. Has he missed off hospitals outside of England or are things improving?

Originally Posted by: Gavin D 

There been any more news on Dominic Cummings' progress? Have hardly heard anything but it must be 10 days now since he got it.

Originally Posted by: JHutch