The 9am figures not disclosed yet?

As of 9am on 29 April, 4,414,242 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK.

Positive cases were 2,445 (2,729 on corresponding day last week).

22 deaths were reported today (18 on corresponding day last week)

151,243 deaths with Covid-19 on the death certificate (up to 16 April)

34,094,048 have had a first dose vaccination. 134,140 first dose vaccinations yesterday. 14,043,961 have had a second dose. 462,885 second dose vaccinations today.
 
There's been a couple of days lately when figures were up on the same time on the same day the previous week.
After a couple of days when they're down again, I'm feeling more confident that these were blips rather than the start of an upturn following the easing of lockdown 2 weeks ago.
 
Frozen Horse said:
There's been a couple of days lately when figures were up on the same time on the same day the previous week.
After a couple of days when they're down again, I'm feeling more confident that these were blips rather than the start of an upturn following the easing of lockdown 2 weeks ago.
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Not sure if would bother me if cases started rising again. It's about the health impact now not the r number, I would have thought.
 
Laughing said:
Not sure if would bother me if cases started rising again. It's about the health impact now not the r number, I would have thought.
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Yeah it looks like vaccines are starting to break the link between cases and hospitalisations. I'd happily have thousands of cases a day if the affects of the disease were not deadly
 
Today's headline analysis:

• 2,445 new cases reported in 24-hour period, up from yesterday's 2,166
• 7-day average for new cases decreases by 1.8% to 2,259 per day, following 1.4% decrease yesterday
• 7-day average for new cases is 8.6% lower than one week ago (from 6.6% lower yesterday) and 15.3% lower than two weeks ago (from 15.4% lower yesterday and 13.8% lower 7 days ago)
• 22 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported in 24-hour period, down from 29 yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test increases by 2.6% to 22 per day, following 4.8% increase yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test is 0.6% higher than one week ago (from 8.9% lower yesterday) and 25.6% lower than two weeks ago (from 34.6% lower yesterday and 27.8% lower 7 days ago)
 
As of 9am on 30 April, 4,416,623 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK.

Positive cases were 2,381 (2,678 on corresponding day last week).

15 deaths were reported today (40 on corresponding day last week)

151,243 deaths with Covid-19 on the death certificate (up to 16 April)

34,216,087 have had a first dose vaccination. 122,039 first dose vaccinations yesterday. 14,532,875 have had a second dose. 488,914 second dose vaccinations today.
 
Laughing said:
Not sure if would bother me if cases started rising again. It's about the health impact now not the r number, I would have thought.
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Good point. However, I don't think rate of infection is irrelevant. For a virus, replication means the possibility of mutation, and that's something we want to avoid.

BoroFur said:
Should we read anything into that very slight uptick in the 7 day average for new deaths?
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Not for me. Now we're down to relatively small numbers of deaths, I think random fluctuations can result in a small uptick without representing any trend as such.
 
Frozen Horse said:
Good point. However, I don't think rate of infection is irrelevant. For a virus, replication means the possibility of mutation, and that's something we want to avoid.



Not for me. Now we're down to relatively small numbers of deaths, I think random fluctuations can result in a small uptick without representing any trend as such.
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I think I panicked a little the other day Frozen.

Billy will give us the 7 day average for new deaths later hopefully however I think it will be below 20.

Obviously this is a very emotive subject and I'm desperate not to upset folk with an ignorant comment but are we at the point now where the average daily death rate is unlikely to get much lower?
 
BoroFur said:
I think I panicked a little the other day Frozen.

Billy will give us the 7 day average for new deaths later hopefully however I think it will be below 20.

Obviously this is a very emotive subject and I'm desperate not to upset folk with an ignorant comment but are we at the point now where the average daily death rate is unlikely to get much lower?
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There may be room for further improvement as the vaccination programme reaches further into the population.
 
As of 9am on 1 May, 4,418,530 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK.

Positive cases were 1,907 (2,061 on corresponding day last week).

7 deaths were reported today (32 on corresponding day last week)

151,243 deaths with Covid-19 on the death certificate (up to 16 April)

34,346,273 have had a first dose vaccination. 129,657 first dose vaccinations yesterday. 14,940,984 have had a second dose. 405,456 second dose vaccinations today.
 
Today's headline analysis:

• 1,907 new cases reported in 24-hour period, down from yesterday's 2,381
• 7-day average for new cases decreases by 1.0% to 2,194 per day, following 1.9% decrease yesterday
• 7-day average for new cases is 10.9% lower than one week ago (from 10.7% lower yesterday) and 13.4% lower than two weeks ago (from 14.3% lower yesterday and 9.1% lower 7 days ago)
• 7 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported in 24-hour period, down from 15 yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test decreases by 18.9% to 15 per day, following 15.9% decrease yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test is 32.7% lower than one week ago (from 18.5% lower yesterday) and 40.6% lower than two weeks ago (from 28.6% lower yesterday and 37.4% lower 7 days ago)

Lowest 7-day average for reported deaths since 17th September 2020.
 
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Billy Horner said:
Today's headline analysis:

• 1,907 new cases reported in 24-hour period, down from yesterday's 2,381
• 7-day average for new cases decreases by 1.0% to 2,194 per day, following 1.9% decrease yesterday
• 7-day average for new cases is 10.9% lower than one week ago (from 10.7% lower yesterday) and 13.4% lower than two weeks ago (from 14.3% lower yesterday and 9.1% lower 7 days ago)
• 7 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported in 24-hour period, down from 15 yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test decreases by 18.9% to 15 per day, following 15.9% decrease yesterday
• 7-day average for new deaths within 28 days of a positive test is 32.7% lower than one week ago (from 18.5% lower yesterday) and 40.6% lower than two weeks ago (from 28.6% lower yesterday and 37.4% lower 7 days ago)

Lowest 7-day average for reported deaths since 17th September 2020.
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Given the amount of testing I am amazed that infection rates are still falling.
 
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