Nearest death to me is a couple of miles away. This is a good link too that’s not behind a paywall 

https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc811/msoamap/index.html

Gavin, where do you get the percentage figure from?

So they re-tested 50,000?

It's the number of positives (6,201) divided by the number of tests (73,191), then x100. In this case, 8.47% 

Daily slides

The transport slide was not shown for the 2nd day running

New cases

Hospital admissions 

Critical care 

All settings deaths with a rolling average

How many people were tested?

Listening to Matt H its going to be a while before schools open 

I am reasonably sure they won’t open before the summer holidays and certainly not in the next month.

Gavin's post should read "Number of people tested" not "Number of tests"

As of 9am 1 May, there have been 1,023,824 tests, with 122,347 tests on 30 April.

762,279 people have been tested of which 177,454 tested positive.

As of 5pm on 30 April, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 27,510 have sadly died. pic.twitter.com/cbZ2M02TqS

— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) May 1, 2020

Hancock confirms there were 122,347 tests across the UK in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST (08:00 GMT) on 1 May. However, this figure includes tests which have been posted to recipients, but not yet carried out.

It's good that we've reached the target, though it isn't a straightforward 'win'. More tests is a good thing though.

I have to agree , I think they will keep them closed , for the sake of a few weeks its not worth the gamble 

I missed it, what was the gist of what he said on schools?

So not 100,000 tests yesterday then. As always with this government, plenty of smoke and mirrors. 

We will not reopen until we are sure its safe to do so - As and when we open schools our goal is to get it back to how it was before , confident we will only do it when its safe , it will be come normal to send your children to school .

Q was will parents get fined if they don't send their children to school 

Another gem from the BBC ticker:

Having set a target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of April, the government now says it reached 122,347 tests on Wednesday (the last day of the month).

The government had been averaging around 20,000 tests a day but this increased significantly over the last week.

When home testing kits became a significant part of the testing strategy last week, the Department of Health began counting those sent out as part of its daily test figures.

So, it doesn’t mean the test was actually used by someone on that day - or even received.

Previously, only instances in which the swab had been processed through a lab were counted as a test.

But the new definition - added on 27 April - included tests "posted to an individual at home".

On 29 April, the definition was extended yet further to also encompass "tests sent to... satellite testing locations".

According to figures released on 30 April, home testing kits accounted for over 18,000 of the daily tests, or a quarter of the total.

By that logic they could carpet bomb the country with a million testing kits at random and say they hit their target of 1,000,000 tests even if some never got opened, delivered or exploded upon impact 

Reminds me of cramming for an essay deadline and changing a few sentences and phrases to be as long-winded as possible just to scrape over the word count 

Still, as I said in a previous post, regardless of media-pleasing targets being 'met', there has been a sharp increase in testing however you look at it, and that can only be a good thing 

Thanks 

Yep, good that there are more tests out there - HSJ article is in the link below.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/revealed-how-government-changed-the-rules-to-hit-100000-tests-target/7027544.article

Latest Michael from my head

As you know, we are awaiting news next week regarding the reopening of schools which I do not foresee happening until at least June.  It is also quite certain that when we return, it will be through a phased return of some description and we do not yet understand how this will work – hopefully Boris will have a plan for next week!  I’ve sent in my views!

We’ll test 100,000 people a day by the end of this month.

Here’s how ⬇️https://t.co/U5gd1mWwdO pic.twitter.com/DJzWDj0vv7

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) April 5, 2020