Boris Johnson is said to have devised a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether he should plunge the country into another lockdown, with just under 1,000 Covid deaths a week enough to warrant further restrictions.
The number of recorded positive Covid tests in the past seven days has increased slightly amid fears over the Delta Covid variant, but deaths and hospitalisations remain low – so why the continued delay to unlocking?
Robert Dingwall, the most sensible member of SAGE, gave a belter of an interview on the World at One earlier, which a kind reader has transcribed for Lockdown Sceptics.
All adults in Wales have been offered the first dose of a Covid vaccine, and zero deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported on 10 of the 13 first days of June. So why the slow unlock?
An NHS leader says that the number of positive tests alone does not tell the full story: "It is a much younger population that is coming in ." They are less vulnerable and easier to treat.
Covid was recorded as the underlying cause of death in just over 60% of recent registered "Covid deaths". For the rest, the virus was not listed as a major cause.
The U.K. has reported zero deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test for the first time amid calls from Government advisors for lockdown to be extended past June 21st.
England recorded zero Covid deaths for the fifth time since the Government started collecting figures on Monday. The same figure was reported in Wales and Northern Ireland, with Scotland announcing just one death.
25 million Brits have been fully vaccinated against Covid – with the figure for first doses nearing 40 million – and, despite an increase in positive tests on Sunday, reported deaths remained in the single figures.
There was another rise in positive tests today, which passed 4,000 for the first time since April, but reported Covid deaths remained flat with just 10 victims.
