The figure that Hancock gave (10,024 in hospital) is at odds with the slide Jenny Harries showed, i.e.

this says 10,731 in hospital.

Oh, FFS, this shambles of a government has now u-turned on the 14-day quarantine exemption for travellers from France.

Holiday in jeopardy again

Yep, that was the figure that i got when i added up all the figures, with N Ireland's being the previous day.

Have they given a reason for separating all the regions out? I found it a lot easier to follow when they were all on the same graph.

There's a need for better co-ordination prior to any briefing 

I also gave up on them when I realised they were not about informing, more about self congratulation.

I notice that the slide showing tube usage running for almost two months at just 5% of normal levels has been missing over the last couple of days just as there is news that TfL has needed a bail-out.

I heard business travellers will be exempt? That would show that it was just a PR stunt and not related to protecting public health

Those who say that Andrew Neil only questions non-tories won't like this tweet (or maybe they will)

Isn’t this a remarkable — some might say brazen — re-writing of what actually happened? The first “protective ring” was “advice” in February which said (twice) care homes had nothing to worry about. Then old folks were decanted from hospitals to homes without testing ... https://t.co/jnBErLLSMz

— Andrew Neil (@afneil) May 15, 2020

Yes, Darren probably had this

But the worst case scenario is that it was Covid but his antibodies have worn off

One of my friends thought it was a great idea that people were now starting to be allowed back into the country but had to be quarantined. He had quite a reaction when i told him that people had still been coming in over the last couple of months.

I imagine that Hancock was badly bullied at school. He has that look and whine about him. And he's a nasty little weasel.

And what exactly is the relevance of that comment?

I am not a great fan of Hancock and would prefer Hunt in the role, but cut the guy some slack - he has been under the most severe pressure imaginable for the past couple of months.

He presides over the UK's appalling snd shameful Covid death toll. Does he express any remorse for his multitude of failures? Like f4ck he does! All he does is stand at that podium and congratulate himself and his slimebag colleagues.

He is a disgusting weasel.

You know him personally?

We won't know the full international comparisons for some time and the inquest into what could have been done better will take even longer.

However, the government can be congratulated on the way the NHS was able to manage the crisis - at the start, there was panic about lack of capacity and shortages of ventilators, but those particular crises were avoided. Issues around PPE I grant you, but in the inquest, I would put insouciance about border controls at the top of the list of missed opportunities.