Moscow infections 'three times higher' than reported
From the BBC news ticker:
"Russia's capital Moscow has been the epicentre of the country's coronavirus outbreak. Official figures report 92,676 confirmed cases in the city, out of Russia's total 177,160 recorded infections.
But Moscow's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, has said the number of cases is far higher. According to Tass news agency, Sobyanin said there were actually around 300,000 in the city alone.
The latest official data shows Russia now has the fifth highest number of infections worldwide. In the last 24 hours case numbers grew by 11,231 - the fifth consecutive day that figure has been over 10,000.
The reported death toll is 1,625 - far lower than in many other countries, including those with smaller confirmed case totals".

With his honesty, looks like Sergei maybe 'falling out of a window' very soon.
So why the cover up Russia?

It doesn't!

The App wasn't conceived, designed, procured or paid for by the NHS. Dominic Cummings the great Tufton Street philanthropist did all that.

Amusing but irrelevant. Those systems have to be failsafe, since any problems are fatal. That is why the CAA was setup to ensure that flying is possible because it only very infrequently kills its customers.

spot on Saint....now if it were some policy  issue affecting farmers or some middle class supporting group that had been brought in by a Labour Govt...would Four or Maunder be simply accepting that mistakes had been made but on the whole the system was working well...of course they wouldn’t ...they be up there shouting from the roof tops that their human rights had been denied and threatening the Govt with all sorts....

Clearly you don't appreciate nuanced argument.

When it comes to criticising actions by an authority which affect a lot of people, the key issue is the statistical effect. Do you think it is wrong in principle that the Government is providing vouchers to families which normally get free school meals?

If you approve of the policy, then what is the issue?

Is it that it is not working? Having anecdotal evidence from those who have had problems, does not mean the policy is flawed, it means that some people have unfortunately had problems for one reason or another.

Highlighting individual cases is only worthwhile in the broader context of whether a system in general is working for most people most of the time or otherwise.

Or shall I just assume that you simply disapprove of the whole Government policy of trying to assist those struggling to feed their families?

Surely, if an individual is not getting good service from Tories, they should act in their own best interests and not buy any more Tories?

I manage a customer service team (phone and email activity), so feel the need to respond. 

You'd be surprised just how tough things are at the moment.

If our place is anything to go by, you'll find that most customer service staff are on furlough, and there will only be a quarter, or even a fifth of the workforce in, actively working from home.

We sell training (which is obviously not happening at the moment), but we are still having enquiries coming in fairly steadily, so things are definitely slower than usual in terms of response times.

Car leasing is always a pain in the arse though, I share your pain. 

Not Croydon girls. They wear miniskirts in midwinter and drop their knickers for a tenner

Breakdown of the 383 new hospital deaths in England by date

• 58 on May 6th


• 120 on May 5th


• 29 on May 4th


• 29 between May 1st & 3rd


• 131 in April


• 16 in March with one on March 19th

Deaths by region

• London - 132


• North West - 67


• Midlands - 66


• North East & Yorkshire - 40


• East of England - 33


• South East - 25


• South West - 20

O'Brien did a phone in about this. The main problem was vouchers not working online, or the waiting times were so long, so people had to go to the shops, including those who should be shielding, and some callers did say  the vouchers were not accepted in some shops.

I don't think its a massive problem but there are clearly a lot of people not happy

I was talking about you 

Barring a second wave, the lockdown will be fully lifted by mid July.

Focus on saving lives and the NHS, let government worry about the Economy and the future of the country.

If you don’t believe they are fighting for you and your livelihoods, you are wrong.

Have faith.

— Mason Mills (@MrMasonMills) May 7, 2020

Saturday is going to be still hot down here so should hopefully see a lot of flesh

Who is this clown?

The Covid app was built by VM for NHSx. It categorically was not built by the NHS. You can read about how NHSx works with digital partners here:

https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/about-us/who-we-are/

The UK Govt has banned any ministers from appearing on @GMB after a series of them made complete fools of themselves in the face of basic & important questions.
This is a pathetic & cowardly response to THEIR shameful incompetence.
cc @BorisJohnson. @10DowningStreet

— *****Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 7, 2020

Why would VMWare - a cloud and virtualisation company - be writing iOS and Android apps for the NHS? That makes no sense whatsoever!

Again, it's likely the app runs on the VMWare platform behind the scenes, but I very much doubt that VMWare Inc wrote the apps themselves.

Do you have a link that backs up the assertion that VMWare wrote the app themselves?

EDIT: Found it. Technically yes, I guess VMWare did write it - there's a caveat though.

https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/nhs-covid-19-contact-tracing-app-rollout

https://www.vmware.com/uk/company/acquisitions/pivotal.html

It's Pivotal who are doing it - they're an app company that was taken over by VMWare a few months ago. That would make sense for them to use the parent company's infrastructure.

I thought that was Newcastle girls.

Looks like individual hospitals/trusts backfilling data is bulking up the figures a lot. Of London's 132 deaths, 99 were from 30 April or earlier.

In fact in London, Barts Trust reported 94 deaths today, 92 from April 30th or earlier. In the NW, Stockport reported 29 deaths, 25 were from 30 April or earlier.