According to today’s official data, the number of Covid infections has fallen for a sixth day in a row. In addition, the most recent data available shows that Covid hospital admissions have fallen by 2%, while the death rate remains flat with no sign of a dramatic upward trend. The MailOnline has the story.
Bosses at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate that around one in 50 people — the equivalent of 1,102,800 — would have tested positive on any given day during the seven-day spell ending October 22nd. It claims infections have risen by almost 13% in a week, soaring to a level not seen since the darkest days of Britain’s pandemic crisis in early January.
Meanwhile, separate data from the UK Health Security Agency, which took over from the now-defunct PHE, today showed that the R rate also rose and is now thought to be around 1.1 to 1.3, up from 1.0 to 1.2. It means for every 10 people infected, between 11 and 13 others will get the virus.
However, both estimates are based on old data and the fresher Government statistics show the country’s outbreak has already started to shrink, even before children broke up for half-term.
Today’s Government figures take Britain’s total Covid death toll to 140,392, with more than 8.98 million having been infected with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
No10’s advisers said it was likely that cases would eventually fizzle out in children because they have built-up such high levels of immunity following the back-to-class wave. They also claimed half-term would act as a natural fire-breaker by curbing indoor mixing of children.
‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson, an Epidemiologist who sits on SAGE, yesterday argued ‘Plan B’ — which would see the return of face masks and work from home guidance if the NHS becomes overwhelmed — “shouldn’t be necessary”, if cases keep dropping and the booster roll-out continues at speed.
Separate data from the country’s largest symptom-tracking study yesterday suggested Britain is ‘worryingly close’ to recording 100,000 new Covid infections per day. Professor Tim Spector, the Epidemiologist running the study, suggested the official Government daily count could be vastly underestimating the extent of Covid prevalence.
It comes as Health Secretary Sajid Javid today called on all secondary school and college students to get tested regardless of symptoms before they return to classrooms next week. ONS data showed 9.1% of children in years seven to 11 had the virus on any given day last week.
Mr Javid said: “it is vital that they are taking free and easy rapid tests that will help detect Covid infections from those who are not showing symptoms to keep the virus at bay.”
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school holidays.
I’d wait until next week to make any predictions as to what is going on.
That’s inappropriate: Right now, these supposedly heavily infected school chidren are among the population. Hence, to use the stereotypical formulation of today, this should send cases, deaths and hospitalizations spiralling as everybody gets infected and invariable succumbs to the deadly virus.
If this doesn’t happen, similar to it already not happening during school summer holidays, something must be wrong with these so-called cases. They can’t be infectious without causing infections (although the WHO is doubtlessly working on redefining infection as could-happen and not did-happen event).
Over and over again research finds that children don’t spread covid, particularly. And over and over again the politicians scream that it is all because of the children, and force them to have their education disrupted, scare them into wearing masks everywhere, and pressurise them into getting a vaccine that puts them at personal risk but offers neither them or others any benefit.
Is this really politicians? As far as I recall, all COVID gymnastics in schools were originally demanded by the teacher’s unions.
The politicians went along with it, and contributed hugely to the climate of fear and madness that kept it all going. It’s on them.
Sorry, but I’m a (software) engineer which implies that I care for outcomes and not for “who’s to blame for that”. Unions demanding that the government must obsessively micromanage the behaviour of the general populace loosely patterned on something they believe was done in China are a huge problem because that’s completely outside of the domain they’re supposed to operate in.
Well I don’t disagree with that, certainly. But it’s the government’s job to make the final decision – and that affects the outcome more than anything else. Govts will always be under pressure from someone or other who is pushing an agenda.
Assuming someone was lobbying the government to start murdering the disabled on the grounds that they’re useless money sinks, would that become a more proper course of action if the government would have nothing of it?
People who think having contact with pupils is too dangerous for them cannot be teachers, much as people who are madly afraid of heights cannot work in scaffolding. That it’s possible to demand from people that they must get a monthly injection of the latest US gene engineering product considered to be somewhat effective in accomplishing X doesn’t mean this is reasonable demand.
It’s also possible to demand that every pupil must be publically flogged once per month on order to atone for his sins lest the almighty sends us a plague.
OK, so ‘infections’ is better than ‘cases’. How about going one better and saying ‘positive test results’ instead of ‘infections’? You might even put the word ‘dodgy’ in front of ‘tests’.
Indeed, if you give up on the language, you give up on the argument.
Yes, as they say in Tibetan, it is like talking about the horn on the rabbit.
We’re witnessing a Great Awakening unfold in the citizenry as ignorant government leaders and corrupt politicians continue to implement mandates that threaten jobs, livelihoods, children’s education, and our way of life…
Americans and citizens around the world need to take back their power, stand up, walk out and just say NO. We will unify for freedom and commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience to make our point: no masks, no vaccines, no testing, no green passes. No coercion. No mandates.
Kickoff is November 3rd!
Worldwide Walkouts! Protests against Illegal Covid Mandates
https://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-walkouts/5760145
Earlier than that, why not join the WWD march in London at 1pm tomorrow? It is planned for 10,000 children and veterans to be there.
Why join it? What is the intended goal? How will it achieve it?
It is a coming-together of like-minded people who are also active locally, e.g roadside placards, presenting information at ‘truth tables’ in shopping centres, serving Notices of Liability to schools etc and Crime Reports to police.
We come together in London once-a-month (or more, for some) and show numbers – particularly when we go into the communities away from the centre of London. People see us – and they see that mainstream media does not report it. This gradually turns the tide.
In contrast to that Mr Javid said, it’s vital that people stop taking these tests unless they’re forced to as that’s the only way numbers of healthy people presumably contaminated with WHO-unauthorized RNA fragements will ever come down.
It comes as Health Secretary Sajid Javid today called on all secondary school and college students to get tested regardless of symptoms before they return to classrooms next week… Mr Javid said: “it is vital that they are taking free and easy rapid tests that will help detect Covid infections from those who are not showing symptoms to keep the virus at bay.”
No child of mine will EVER take a Covid test, wear a mask, or take the ‘vaccine’. That’s CHILD ABUSE.
Nothing new from ‘our’ politicians, eh?!
Well Jimmy’s mate Esther *allegedly* set up ChildLine in 1986 as an early warning system for their mates in Parliament.
“keep the virus at bay”.
And this nincompoop is in charge of the nation’s health?
There is no stopping a contagious respiratory virus.
And the rona ain’t that virus.
Fergusson actually speaking sense?
Yeah: got to keep in with Bozo’s latest approach. Anyway this has all just been a bit of practise for the multi-decadal ‘climate change’ lockdowns, coming to a town near you very soon!
“No10’s advisers said it was likely that cases would eventually fizzle out in children because they have built-up such high levels of immunity following the back-to-class wave. They also claimed half-term would act as a natural fire-breaker by curbing indoor mixing of children. “
Lol. So cases will fizzle out because they are all immune as they’ve had it already, and that’s a good thing, because it doesn’t really harm children, but half-term is useful because it stops cases increasing (and this reaching herd immunity) by stopping mixing? OK. Of course kids never mix with other kids over half term.
And TPTB want to cause battery by injection to them.
String ’em up.
Yes, of all the evil the decision to vaccinate kids was the worst by far, especially as they were advised against it. Whitty, Vallance and Van Tam know it’s wrong.
How can anyone trust what the Daily Telegraph says when it reports the ‘lab-confirmed new cases’ 10 times higher than they were? Not that they are new cases anyway, just positive pcr tests. I despair!
Today’s latest coronavirus developmentsThe UK records another 443,467 lab-confirmed new cases of Covid-19and a further 186 deaths, bringing the total to 140,392.
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Are we still using PCR cases to make these claims/forecasts? I’m wondering how easy (with nhs vax pass database) would it be to reduce PCR cycle for vaccinated people?
Interesting little clip;
Paper pulled with no explanation #FollowTheSilence (from Livestream #101) DarkHorse Podcast,Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
As someone pointed out on the Today’s Update thread the number of positive tests may have fallen somewhat recently *but” the *share*/% of the test results that are positive has gone up slightly, suggesting that, if there is anything real or relevant at all about the test results, we may be seeing the beginning of a winter surge, and the only reason that official figures have shown a fall recently is that … for some reason … the authorities haven’t been testing as much as they were.
Falling in England, but climbing, apparently, in face-knickered, Nazi-passported, vaxxed-to-the-eyeballs, Gulag Wales.
I can’t think why. Can you?
Are they really climbing? Or is that shill Drakford just quoting from his latest WHO briefing?
Oh, the cases fell for six days in a row. I guess it’s time for DS to declare victory, just like the last time (a couple weeks ago).
I often disagree with you rayc but yes in this case you’re right – I do wish they’d stick to the basics and just denounce the folly for what it is rather than disappearing down rabbit holes that are part of the covid fantasy universe
Shut up dick
I don’t like his tone or generally the cut of his jib but in this case he’s right. I think trying to play on the playing field created by the Satanists is just going to lead nowhere.
infections, no:(false) positive tests, yes.
Quote 1
Bosses at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate that around one in 50 people — the equivalent of 1,102,800 — would have tested positive on any given day during the seven-day spell ending October 22nd
Quote 2
Today’s Government figures take Britain’s total Covid death toll to 140,392, with more than 8.98 million having been infected with the virus since the start of the pandemic.
How is it that 1.1 million people would have tested positive in a week, per the first quote, yet only 8.9 million people have been infected, per the second quote- and we’re at week 80+?
Is it the same group of people getting infected over and over again? Aren’t they getting fed up with it by now?
I’ve heard of some who ‘test’ themselves before they even venture out of the house. No doubt they swell the figures nicely. And no, I don’t suppose they do get fed up with it – there’s obviously nothing quite as satisfying as virtue signalling to their friends.
Cases, cases bloody cases, are these people really ill? My Brother’s step grandchildren were sent home from school a couple of weeks ago as they had “tested positive”. I can tell you their mother (who had mumps) was mighty p***ed off as there was nothing wrong with them. But she had to deal with two perfectly healthy brats at home all day whilst feeling like death. Please please please stop this nonsense it’s driving me MAD!!!!
It’s not just the ridiculous ”isolating” of healthy children – what’s even worse is the ”testing” of them. That this disgusting and nasty little ”test” is inflicted upon young people is utterly abhorrent, and what amazes me is that their parents allow it without a murmur.
Isn’t it a bit odd that ‘infections’ peaked at almost exactly the same level as they did in July? Then the Govt had its Freedom Day exercise to validate, now ‘infections’ must be curbed before COP26: yet more delegates dropping out will make the conference even more risible.
’Infections’ can be ramped up or down to taste: we’re being manipulated.
Mr Javid said: “it is vital that they are taking free and easy rapid tests that will help detect Covid infections from those who are not showing symptoms to keep the virus at bay.”
What on earth do you mean by keeping the virus at bay? It’s never been at bay. Ignorance and hubris.
And we’ll pay for the nemesis
Both. See my comment above.
Also the word .free. us poor taxpayers are paying for them.
Wouldn’t it be nice one day to have a ”Health Secretary” who actually has some medical or scientific experience or qualification of his/her own? Someone who might be able to look at facts and figures critically on their own account. Or is that too radical an idea? Is being a maleable placeman more important?