Been out on the bike round here. More bikes than cars i think, empty roads make it easy to swing out wide to pass other cyclists or let pedestrians move out into the road to maintain social distancing. Was surprised at how many bikes there were actually, i think that everyone with one must be out at some point today! The main negative was seeing fire, police and ambulance services all attending an accident on a straight road where someone had driven straight into the front of an estate agent, really piled into it, very crumpled front end of the car. 

I can't comment on her "awfulness" as my impressions are entirely media-based, but it had seemed there was a conscious decision to keep her out of the public eye.

Perhaps this now should read: There should have been a conscious decision to keep her out of the public eye.

Roger.

Probably swerved to avoid a bloody cyclist.

A further 208 patients have died in London. The deaths were between March 25th and April 10th they were all announced today.

• Royal Free London NHS Trust - 33 deaths (between March 30 and April 9)


• Imperial College Healthcare Trust - 25 deaths (between April 3 and April 10)


• Barts Health NHS Trust - 17 deaths (between March 25 and April 10)


• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - 15 deaths (between April 4 and April 9)


• Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust - 13 deaths (between April 3 and April 7)


• King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 13 deaths (between April 7 and April 10)


• Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - 11 deaths (between April 8 and April 10)


• London North West University Healthcare Trust - 11 deaths (between April 1 and April 10)


• North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust - 11 deaths(between April 8 and April 9)


• St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 10 deaths (between April 8 and April 10)


• University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 10 deaths (between April 7 and April 10)


• Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - 9 deaths (between April 9 and April 10)


• Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - 6 deaths (between April 7 and April 10)


• Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust - 5 deaths (between April 9 and April 10)


• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 4 deaths (between April 2 and April 9)


• Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust - 3 deaths (between April 9 and April 10)


• Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Hospital - 3 deaths (April 10)


• The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 3 deaths (April 9)


• Whittington Health NHS Trust - 3 deaths (between April 4 and April 7)


• East London NHS Foundation Trust - 1 death (April 9)


• HCA UK - The Wellington Hospital North Building - 1 death (April 7)


• The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust - 1 death (April 10)

Doubt it, no idea how someone managed to do it. Half wonder on reflection whether someone had deliberately rammed it, odd.

Most Aldi stores across the country will be opening extended hours not closing until 10pm from Tuesday 14th April. The new closing time will apply from Monday to Saturday (Monday 13th excluded owning to a bank holiday)

Morrisons will also be opening extended hours with stores opening from 6am* to 8pm from Tuesday 14th April the new opening hours will also apply Monday to Saturday (Monday 13th excluded owning to a bank holiday)

*6am to 7am applies to NHS workers only 

I’m sorry if you feel that’s an apology but it absolutely fucking isn’t https://t.co/FaSxxn7jQg

— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) April 11, 2020

This will come as a huge relief to those who have already died https://t.co/vCcteOF4k7

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) April 11, 2020

Why don't you ask your pal Boris

BREAKING: Another hellish spike in UK #coronavirus deaths - 917 more recorded in past 24hrs, taking total to just under 10,000.
New victims include an 11yr-old.
How many more are dying in their homes, or in care homes?
UK remains on track for worst death toll in Europe. WHY?

— *****Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 11, 2020

A bit more info on the South Koreans who are testing positive again. Seems to be suggestions that the virus may have reactivated rather than the patient been reinfected. Up to 91 now who have tested positive after being initially cleared.

'remnants of the virus could still be in patients’ systems but not be infectious or of danger to the host or others'

This line made me a bit puzzled. I had thought that these people were being retested because they were showing symptoms again, but that line suggests that they may not be showing symptoms, in which case they may just be being tested as a precaution? 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-idUSKCN21S15X

The question I would ask at the briefing is this:

You were testing hospital admissions. Tests amounted to ~10,000 per day.

You are now testing hospital admissions and NHS staff. NHS staff amount to between 400 to 600 tests per day.

You are now testing ~20,000 people per day.  So who the hell are you testing? Hospital admissions have gone up but not by anywhere near enough to account for the extra testing.

Milton Keynes super-lab only analysing 1,500 tests a day, Sky’s @rowlsmanthorpe reveals

Thread and story explaining why that matters: https://t.co/8wkPBov8iQ

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) April 11, 2020

For those who are interested, my son-in-law sent me the following link to a PDF document last night:

https://www.icnarc.org/DataServices/Attachments/Download/41bbc4bb-2c7b-ea11-9124-00505601089b?fbclid=IwAR34gRslJoL1dtARmnjS1-D_t5h-sOL8S_x-JjZ7OlXjBo3J4ic_KZN_02o

It provides all the known stats as of 10th April.

P.S. James O'Brien is a complete knob!

I have no idea Peter - I haven't availed myself of their services.  I think they are skating on thin ice with that to be honest.  My dentist has gone over to emergencies only (abscess / extreme pain, possible wider health issues etc etc etc) and I guess they will be masked up.   Difficult to  class having having your Barnet  trimmed as an emergency   .... unless you're in danger  of tripping over it.  I hope we  won't be in lock-down that long

Had one come up behind me this morning when walking - bloody fast and close, certainly not 2M.  I guess the speed   means the risk is less though !

Priti Patel was the most competent person available to the UK government today.
It seems important to point this out.

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) April 11, 2020

A friend texts after watching the Priti Patel press conference. pic.twitter.com/BxTqzQC8ZN

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) April 11, 2020

Amazingly and surprisingly good here. It's hard to see how anyone could catch it.

Indeed.  I was pretty disappointed by the numbers today, but, surely, we must soon see a meaningful reduction  in hospital admissions.   America seems to be heading for a major crisis.

I was! But I don't recall what a normal Saturday was like. Till yesterday I had not been out for a week and I couldn't see anybody not social distancing. Only saw about 20 people mind, which is a good sign. That was on a 10 minute round trip through mainly estate type roads in a town with a population of 300,000. At first I thought a few weren't then I figured it was probably parents and children or young adults.

People who aren't social distancing must have serious sociopathic traits - I mean who would want to get it? We've all seen what it's like.

I wouldn't know the reason behind the testing, but it might be worth remembering that the chicken pox virus can go dormant and re-emerge as shingles decades later. So re-activation is not an unknown feature of viruses and, ominously, if you haven't had chicken pox, you can catch it from someone who has shingles (cf https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/shingles/#overview).

My friend owns a men's and ladies hairdressers. He said he shut a couple of weeks ago following government advice.

Puzzled how Spain has seen such a big reduction in mortality, as compared to Italy and France which have equally severe lockdowns in place.

Something suspect about some of the figures.

Chicken pox is also something  that is better is better to get as a  child.   Just a bit itchy for me and I remember mum putting potassium permanganate in  the bath, turning it a nice purple - initially !!   My boss got it a couple of years ago and it laid him low for weeks !