Yes and clearly what the Zoe app has been showing for 10 days. We are moving to a neutral stage where I think people are all looking to compromise. The vulnerable are now somewhat better protected than they were at the start of the outbreak. The general population have some understanding of social distancing. I think what will happen next is we will cruise along accepting a hundred deaths a day' knowing they will be mostly either people with underlying conditions or the elderly. Continued excuses will be made to get back to nearer normality which let's face it most people will want. Then there will be a large number of people like me who will more or less continue with the current rules and take my own calculated risks bearing in mind my own situation. (which I hasten to add is easy, retired, 70, not too much underlying). 

👍 and thanks to Darren too. 

Odd; I thought it was called winter sports. You can get a decent tan from the sun bouncing back off the snow.

Nope! As I mentioned the other day, we're now further away than 2 weeks.

The past three days have seen around 2500 cases a day here.

Go back 2 weeks and the 3 day averages are:

Spain: 2898

Italy: 1307

France: 1776

The Spain figure is deceptive - there was a 3-day spike of higher values, for whatever reason. France's figures were 1089/3640/600, so they also saw a spike.

Brian, we really do need a face-palm emoji.

If I've understood his point correctly, the Herbert with the Coors bottle is saying that he thinks there's going to be a 'more stricter' lockdown anyway, so he may as well be part of the problem that causes there to probably be a 'more stricter ' lockdown.

Yup, that's what he 'finks'.

Regional data for new cases today in England

The 7 English regions 

• London +49 (0.2%) 26,628


• Midlands +190 (0.8%) 24,827


• North West +163 (0.7%) 24,295


• North East and Yorkshire +155 (0.7%) 23,337


• South East +127 (0.6%) 20,637


• East of England +83 (0.6%) 13,394


• South West +52 (0.7%) 7,422

The 10 local areas with the highest cases

• Kent +56 (1.2%) 4,618


• Lancashire +14 (0.4%) 3,420


• Birmingham +8 (0.2%) 3,348


• Hampshire +13 (0.4%) 3,206


• Essex +14 (0.4%) 3,121


• Surrey +12 (0.4%) 2,847


• Hertfordshire +8 (0.3%) 2,790


• Sheffield +5 (0.2%) 2,498


• Cumbria +8 (0.4%) 2,161


• Staffordshire +14 (0.7%) 2,133

The 10 local areas with the lowest cases

1. Rutland +1 (3.0%) 33


2. North East Lincolnshire 148 - No change


3. Isle of Wight +3 (1.7%) 181


4. Torbay 221 - No change


5. Bath and North East Somerset 230 - No change


6. Bracknell Forest 240 - No change


7. Windsor and Maidenhead +1 (0.4%) 280


8. Calderdale +2 (0.7%) 287


9. Portsmouth 313 - No change


10. Hartlepool 319 - No change

Anything he says isn't worth taking seriously purely from the fact his drink of choice is Coors lager.

What IS it about Kent? It's been top of the pile for weeks now and in absolute terms we're now seeing more cases than London (and multiples more than any other county)...

It is because it is to do with the postal address of the hospital or person who has died. So large parts of Bromley and Bexley come under Kent.

Back to my silence.

Test results suggest that 17% of people in London have antibodies, 5% outside London.

Daily slides

Social distancing

Tests and new cases

People in hospital

All settings deaths with 7-day rolling average

Oi!

Q. How can you tell when Matt Hancock is lying?

A. His lips move.

[yes, I love to regurgitate & rehash old jokes]

Corona with a wedge of lime for me  (really!)

This I don't get. Other countries have done or are doing wide-scale antibody testing. Triggle makes it sound like there is no urgency in the UK. Personally I think we should already have done population samples. In fact the apparent lack of urgency beggars belief

Instead, officials will be keeping an eye on whether those who have antibodies are at lower risk of re-infection.

The test may also help with surveillance in time.

A large sample of the population could be tested to look for signs of antibodies.

One of the great unknowns is just how many people have been infected but have not developed symptoms. [source: Nick Triggle]

A humiliating u-turn

NHS staff and care workers from overseas are to be exempt from paying a surcharge to use the health service after mounting pressure from MPs.

Boris Johnson's spokesman said the PM had asked the Home Office and Department for Health to exempt NHS and care workers "as soon as possible".

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was "a victory for common decency"...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52761052

Great news. I wonder what MM has to say after defending the HMG decision 

Kent is big. Because of its large population, it is only 53rd out of 149 local authority areas; that is in the top half admittedly but below many London boroughs. It currently has 294.4 cases per 100,000 of population.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-tracker-how-many-cases-are-in-your-area-updated-daily-11956258

Bromley and Bexley aren't in Kent, they are in their own authority areas. Bromley currently has 381.5 cases per 100,000. Bexley is slightly lower than Kent with 283.5 per 100,000.

Worst upper tier local authority in England is Sunderland with 491.7 per 100,000.
Worst lower tier local authority in England is Barrow in Furness with 829.6 per 100,000.
Worst upper tier local authority in the UK is "Cardiff and Vale" with 509.9 per 100,000.