New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that across the U.K. more than half of adults are likely to have Covid antibodies. The figure is highest in England, where 68.3% are likely to have antibodies based on the ONS’s testing, which suggests that almost 70% of the population has had the infection or been vaccinated. Sky News has the story.
Almost 70% of the adult population in England now have Covid antibodies, the latest figures suggest.
An estimated seven in 10 adults (68.3%) in private households were likely to have tested positive for coronavirus antibodies in the week to April 11th, according to the ONS.
The latest estimate is up from one in two, or 53.1%, two weeks earlier.
The presence of Covid antibodies suggests someone has had the infection or has been vaccinated – and the inoculation rollout has now reached more than 33 million people across the U.K..
In Wales, some six in 10 adults (61%) in private households tested positive for antibodies in the week to April 11th, according to the same new figures.
This is also up from around one in two adults, or 48.2%, two weeks before.
The ONS said that the rise in antibody levels in older age groups is likely a reflection of the fact that over 12 million people (largely in this group) have had a second dose of a Covid vaccine.
The Mail also highlighted that the number of adults with Covid antibodies now is likely higher than the ONS is currently reporting.
Antibody levels are likely to be even higher now because millions more have been jabbed since the blood tests were conducted more than a fortnight ago, and it takes about two weeks for immunity to kick in…
Official data [also] shows nearly 40 million people in England live in practically “Covid-free” areas, where two or fewer cases were recorded during the latest week.
The Sky News report is worth reading in full.
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We can but hope and it gives us something to look forward in these dark days.
A lot of us might think that the word ‘earn’ is misinformation. Earn suggests merit while just being paid is more accurate for a bunch of Far Left censorship and propaganda nobodies.
roughly half of whom earn over £60,000 a year
Paid for jobs with no wealth creating output, paid for my money taken from those who do create wealth (a dwindling number in “democracies”) = parasites.
Games of Kings.
What they don’t know is that – down here – WE are the kings.
As someone mentioned, Soros will probably ride to the rescue of their Globalist project. I bet you will find their footprints in Ukraine too.
We might begin to find out that Soros is fronting USAID money along with others and not his own.
To borrow from the occasionally funny Jon Stewart, they’re getting rid of this censorship organisation leaving … nobody knows exactly how many more of these censorship organisations.
I do hope so.
Upwards of £60K a year to work for the Foreign Verify Desk of the British Broadcasting Commentariat – world-leading peddlers of mis-, dis- and malinformation, and barefaced climate claptrap lies.
Nice money of you can get it. Bad luck, the DOGE has rumbled you. Couldn’t happen to a more duplicitous bunch of Gates and States-funded charlatans.
“Will BBC Media Action, Auntie’s International, Pro-Censorship Charity, go Bust Now That Elon Musk Has Turned off the USAID Tap?”
I bloody well hope so. Most probably the license fee will go up or the charge will be made universal.
Some years ago I was working in Mali, where USAAID had funded, of all things, an experimental fish farm in the semidesert Sahel. Located on the border of the River Niger Inland Delta, the channel of the nearest minor tributary was over a kilometre away and, in that season, utterly dry. So, for a good part of each year, the farm was not exactly in the best position to rear fish. This is not an encouraging situation for investing in a fish farming demonstration project.
At the time of my visit, only two of the dozen or so small ponds held water, and even they were only partially full – like, with less than a foot or so deep. Inconveniently, a nearby damp wetland area had been designated as a Conservation Area for an impressive population of large protected birds, with a marked disposition to consume fish. I noticed a certain conflict of interest between the armed guards there and the fish farm operators.
But the gallant fish farmers did manage to produce a few kilograms of Tilapia each year, which they sold in the local market. I asked how much USAID had invested in this heroic attempt to bring the wonders of modern food production to this benighted arid region. From their replies I estimated that the American taxpayers had invested about US$3,000 in order for the demo project to produce each kilo of fish, rather less than they fetched in the local outlet. The Wall Street Journal had a field day with this information, proving that the Main Stream Media really do take interest in particularly interesting enterprises.
Until we eventually escaped, my colleague and I were held hostage by the irate Director of Fisheries, in an effort to force us to authorize another such seminal project. This confirms just how essential is USAID funding for the provision of Technical Assistance to deprived communities in the less developed areas of the world.
All very interesting but why no names of the “85 London employees (roughly half of whom earn over £60,000 a year) [who] appear to be able to flit from the charity to the broadcaster and vice versa”?
If a Private School cannot be a charity because it’s a business … how come a Media Propaganda Unit is registered as one? There’s nothing charitable about it.
The good news just continues to flow, I wonder if the BBC will put this under its ‘uplifting’ news section?