Britain’s daily reported Covid infections have now fallen for five days in a row, despite warnings from the ONS that the virus last week was more prevalent than ever. MailOnline has more.
Government dashboard data showed another 69,811 infections were logged in the last 24 hours, which was down 9% on last Friday.
Deaths continued to rise, however, with 191 recorded today – up 11% on the same time last week. Another 2,509 hospitalisations with the virus were also recorded on March 28th, the latest date available, up 12% in a week and the most since late December at the height of the Omicron wave.
But both are lagging indicators, because of the time it takes for someone who catches the virus to fall seriously ill.
The drop-off in cases follows from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimating that 4.1 million people had the virus on any given day in England last week, the equivalent to one in 13 being infected.
The figure is the highest ever recorded – topping the previous peak of 3.7m at the height of the Omicron wave in January. It is also 18% higher than last week.
In the most Covid-ridden towns of Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, one in nine people were projected to have the virus in the week to March 26th. And infections have soared to pandemic highs in all over-35s.
Britain’s outbreak as a whole is also bigger than ever, with 4.9m now thought to be infected – up from 4.3m last week.
Statisticians said England’s surge was being driven by the more transmissible version of Omicron, scientifically named BA.2. Although, ministers admit that ditching the final Covid restrictions last month also fueled the uptick.
Despite the mass testing project warning that cases show no signs of slowing yet, top scientists are hopeful that the worst may be over. Official numbers – reliant on people getting tested, as opposed to random swabbing – have been falling for a week, bolstering hopes that the virus was running out of steam.
Panic has set in (or been confected) in the usual quarters, but the truth is the Omicron BA.2 surge, like those before it, has peaked by itself, despite restrictions being lifted. As the Danish Government concluded in January, this is not a socially critical disease that warrants any infringements of liberty.
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The elephant in the room:
Britain’s outbreak as a whole is also bigger than ever, with 4.9m now thought to be infected – up from 4.3m last week.
Surely this is a good thing?
9.2 million infections (okay, “estimated”) in 2 weeks providing robust and long lasting natural protection?
If we’re to believe what we’re told people keep catching it over and over again, especially the vaxxed. Who knows? I haven’t had a cold for years but at some points in my life I used to get several per year.
“Britain’s outbreak as a whole is also bigger than ever, with 4.9m now thought to be infected – up from 4.3m last week. “
We’re so lucky that 90% of adults have been vaccinated. Imagine how much worse it could have been.
When are we going to see evidence that the vaccine itself generates ‘false positive’ covid tests? Where has the serious issue of the shedding spike proteins by the vaccinated gone?
For the benefit of the 4 downtickers, this was an ironic post.
There is an insidious unpleasantness about this kind of reporting.
The not-so-subliminal messaging is that human beings are disease-ridden or disease-associated, something like rats or fleas.
We are being taught that our bodies are dirty, faulty things in need of improvement by injections, with masks to conceal our offensive, leaking faces.
We are being taught that Susan Miche, Trisha Greenalgh, Jenny Harries etc should either really get their phobias treated or emigrate to a place where they’re unlikely to encounter other living animals. As people can even get COVID in Antarctica, we have thus found a suitable set of volunteers for manned Mars-mission which keeps being talked about.
Bonus question: Assuming they make it there without killing each other with disinfectants, can it then be said that there’s intelligent life on Mars?
I’d love somebody from SAGE to explain to me what the vaccines are doing other than making things worse. I’m dumb struck how anyone can believe they’ve made the situation better and yet they do. If it wasn’t for people posting on here I’d think I was living in an alternative reality.
What would you want to consort with anyone from SAGE?
It might be an apt time to return to Nal Hutta.
If there’s room, could I, and my small family, join you on your spaceship?
I have gold……..
I have tea and “Risk”…
The jabs are doing precisely what they are intended to do … which is to make eyewatering amounts of money for Big Pharma.
can you imagine how low the IFR must be! no deaths from 5 million infections a week. probably milder than athlete’s foot.
Covid restrictions have done f**k all so why has ditching them increased transmission. You listen to MSM experts every day and they are mind numbingly stupid the people that interview them are stupid and the people that believe them are stupid. I just look at people who are wearing masks with complete and utter contempt.
Indeed, mask madness. I was just in Sainsburys and I reckon 75% masked up sheep.
But I am in Bournemouth right now. From above …
“In the most Covid-ridden towns of Bournemouth, “
Maybe the MailOnline is well read around here?
In Reading, this has decidedly become a hobby of fairly small minority of weirdos, most of them seemingly of the holier-than-thou type (the English ones).
That sounds a lot like where I live in middle class Yorkshire. A small contingent of SJWs determined to show the world just how ignorant they are about relative particle sizes.
Oh don’t worry we’ve got them in Bedfordshire too!
Surely all those thousands of masked-up and at ‘maximum risk’ in Bournemouth ( the largest open-air retirement home in the UK!) will be quadrupple-jabbed by now – so what does that tell you?
That Geert Vanden Bossche is right in yesterday’s posting on TrialSiteNews?
Might that be that the “vaccine is the virus”?
Presumably they are spreading it?!
Bournemouth is the new Leamington Spa…
https://allpoetry.com/Death-In-Leamington
The lies from the Ruling Elites just never stop now!
The ones who are really gaga are those wearing them under their nose or the sole occupant of a car…. Who knew that there were so many moronically stupid people in this country.
Yes they’re good I like them. They have a strong sense of needing to do something futile. We need more people like that.
There will eventually be fewer.
The only reason the regime is “admitting” that ditching the despotism has resulted in more cases of a mild cold is that they have to stick to the narrative that the tyranny actually achieved something.
Pay no attention to that infected Scotchman behind the muzzle.
Indeed, cases have risen at least as much in Scotland and Wales as they have in England, so blaming it on Boris or Freedom Day is absolutely daft.
Indeed, one of the scientists involved, Mark Woodhouse, concluded in his book (The Year the went Mad) that lockdowns were not the way to go. Maybe they were welcomed by Boris & Co. for their own nefarious reasons…
Correction “The Year the World went Mad”. Bad internet connection; cannot edit.
“Not Legal!”
As I pass the masked-up I give a quick reposte while waving my finger around my nose and mouth saying, “masks are not legal!“; of course I know the correct term is not a legal requirement but it makes me feel better and I hope makes them realise even just a bit how weird and not-living-by-the-rules they are at the moment.
Of course the other thing I do is make the sign of the cross as they approach which rattles a bit too – they’re the walking dead after all.
The ONS survey nothing but somewhat elaborate bullshit which makes headlines whenever real numbers are no longer to Corona’s witnesses’ liking. ONS doesn’t even know how many people are actually living in England and there’s absolutely no reason to assume that percentage of people testing positive in a random sample times someone’s best guess at how many people are living in England represents anything real. Well, one thing, actually: Whatever the real number of active infections happens to be, it’s certainly different from the ONS guesstimate.
Will modelling replace “real data” (real data that was utter bollocks itself)?
Good question. I thought about that myself. One way to save Ferguson’s (et al) COVID modelling would be use the climate change method, ie defined is as real qua consensus of everyone who agrees with it while ostracizing everyone who doesn’t.
Not a lot of difference from before the vaccine roll out
Well….quite a few people are suffering from serious side-effects or are no longer alive! Does that count?
As we all surely know by now, testing PCR positive does not mean a ‘case’ of Covid as 97 % of PCR positive tests are false positives.
How do we “know” that? Asking for a sceptical friend who likes to read evidence rather than assertions.
Here we go again …..la la la la.zzzzzz.
I often wonder if anyone of influence reads/heeds the warnings from the likes of GVB.
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/616004c52e87ed08692f5692/6244c3b09ad5701f3ec17765_GVB_s%2Banalysis%2Bof%2BC-19%2Bevolutionary%2Bdynamics.pdf
If he’s correct – the tech. stuff is complex but the gist of it is logical – the blue touch paper is alight..
And of course – the continuing “pandemic” will be the fault of the unclean.
In simple terms, you cannot attain herd immunity with a non sterilising vaccine – it only worsens/creates the “pandemic”.
Think antibiotics.
Good read before bedtime
Very ‘Dense’ but not ‘Thick’ like most Government advisors.
They might as well have graphs of how many of us have got a pimple on our arse.
Thanks to a monumental ankle inspection effort by our Depart of Hosiery (the envy of the world) we can report that confirmed positive cases of odd sock wearing are now the highest ever recorded.
Where’s Fingal? I need him to explain to me how a variant ten times more transmissible than a variant ten times more transmissible than a variant ten times more transmissible than a variant ten times more transmissible than the original one could possibly be in decline without any restrictions whatsoever.
What has happened to the holy grail of herd immunity? So many cases yet no sign of it being achieved.
The “official” stats suggest that there must have been somewhere in the region of 200 million people in the UK who have been infected with some form of Covid-19 since the “pandemic” began, despite around 90% of the population being “vaccinated”. So the experimental cocktails, mask wearing and lockdowns have worked a treat, haven’t they? You can’t trust any government agency to be honest with the public. Yet the fearful are already rolling up their sleeve for jab no. 4, and sounding grateful for the ” protection” the great and the good are poisoning them with. Where does this tragedy/ comedy of errors/ genocide end?
Just stop f…ing counting PLEASE!!
4.9m active cases in a single week is a staggering number. To compare, symptomatic flu cases affect 3-10% over an entire season – so this massively higher than flu incidence.
Fortunately the latest incarnation of covid is much less damaging than before or else yes, the health service would have been overwhelmed.
It also demonstrates how different it is from flu. That number of people off sick at one time is causing stress in all kinds of companies.
Secondly, the notion of herd immunity is thus far a pipe dream. Many people have been infected many times. Others (including me) have never been infected.
Even at a mild level, covid is quite a problem for business.
Sorry, Fungal, your comparison is false. You are comparing total coronavirus incidence (including asymptomatic) with symptomatic flu. This is typical of the sleight of hand we often see from covidians.
5m in a single week is approaching 10% of England’s population. Even including asymptomatic flu the incidence is 5-20% over an entire season. So yes, covid is much more infectious than flu and significantly more of a strain on society, even in its milder form.
People here are concentrating on the fact that numbers seem to be heading down again, while completely ignoring the fact that they have soared as restrictions were removed.
“this is not a socially critical disease that warrants any infringements of liberty”
Are you listening Boris? Thought not; you simply don’t want us to regain our freedom.
I had it a couple of weeks ago according to a spare box of LFTs I have.
it was a bad streaming head cold that if anything was irregular, the streaming lasted a day longer.
what we are seeing here (apart from increase susceptibility due to AIDS) is the population is catching a cold. The cold is different to all the historic colds and sniffles we have ever had because we are trying to measure it.
if nothing more sinister happens…I suspect future COVID cases will be measured either by the sales of tissues and Lemsips or by Governm3nt funded businesses (councils, schools, NHS) where the LFT will be free and serve as another useless proxy indicator.
It. Is. A. Cold.
The ONS survey is completely consistent with the testing figures.
Although the ONS survey is billed as being “for 1st April”, if you read it you see that the actual survey was done during week ending 26th March, i.e. before the testing figures turned down.
As Will says, this “wave” has peaked by itself, despite the final relaxing of restrictions – yet more evidence that the restrictions did nothing to stop the spread of the virus.
Yes, but it’s peaked at about 5m current infections. That’s incredibly high, as many as a very bad flu would do in a whole season.
Nobody was ever afraid it would infect the entire population simultaneously!
5 mill active infections would have spelt disaster for the NHS 18 months ago, with the more damaging earlier variants.
Yes but these are estimates, probably from dodgy modelling. In past years, the majority of these people would go to work anyway, and soldier on.
As a doctor I appreciate that isn’t always the right thing to do, but it was a frequently used option.
Now we are mandated to stay at home and isolate which is obviously reducing the workforce. The vast majority of these people do not need to be off work.
I thought I’d take a look at the figures on the last day of the free insanity tests (you fail if you take it). I was not disappointed … it was as boring as ever.