UK Covid death toll

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16th Sept - 929
23rd Sept - 1,439 (1.55 x previous week)
30th Sept - 2,036 (1.41 x pw)
7th Oct - 3,066 (1.51 x pw)
14th Oct - 4,313 (1.41 x pw)
21st Oct - 6,271 (1.45 x pw)
28th Oct - 9,070 (1.45 x pw)
4th Nov - 11,037 (1.22 x pw)
11th Nov - 12,730 (1.15 x pw)
18th Nov - 14,490 (1.14 x pw)
25th Nov - 14,240 (0.98 x pw)
2nd Dec - 13,212 (0.93 x pw)
9th Dec -  13,467 (1.02 x pw)
16th Dec - 15,465 (1.15 x pw)
23rd Dec - 17,834 (1.15 x pw)
30th Dec - 22,713 (1.27 x pw)
6th Jan - 27,727 (1.22 x pw)
13th Jan - 32,689 (1.18 x pw)
20th Jan - 33,886 (1.04 x pw)
27th Jan - 30,846 (0.91 x pw)
3rd Feb - 26,374 (0.86 x pw)
10th Feb - 20,926 (0.79 x pw)
17th Feb - 16,458 (0.79 x pw)
24th Feb - 13,007 (0.79 x pw)
3rd Mar - 9,594 (0.74 x pw)
10th Mar - 6,945 (0.73 x pw)
17th Mar - 5,397 (0.77 x pw)
24th Mar - 4,005 (0.74 x pw)
31st Mar - 3,084 (0.77 x pw)
7th April - 2,486 (0.81 x pw)
14th April - 1,972 (0.79 x pw)
21st April - 1,609 (0.82 x pw)
28th April - 1,278 (0.79 x pw)
5th May - 1032 (0.81 x pw)

Another week, another 20% fall in the numbers in hospital. This is despite the relaxations on April 12th for shops, gyms, barbers and outdoor dining and eating all being brought into the mix, they have not impacted in the continued reduction of those in hospital - All good news. The next relaxation on 17th May will be interesting and hopefully continue on the same path.

The biggest difference this year compared to last Autumn is the vaccination programme which continues at a good speed and is now open for anyone over 42 (it did make me wonder why they chose 42 and not 45 or 40 but finding out that Matt Hancock is 42 got rid of that question as why wouldn't he fix it so that he was looked after   ). Currently 65% of the adult population have had the 1st jab and nearly 27% have had both - these are impressive numbers as they have managed to keep the volume up. 

It will be interesting to see what the uptake is going forward especially with the news from around the globe of outbreaks and lockdowns. Hopefully it will continue to be high.

And again - 20% reduction like clockwork which means that at some stage in the next 7 days we will drop below 1000 in hospital. Considering we had nearly 35k in the middle of January that is a remarkable turnaround.

Vaccinations also continue at a pace with nearly 35M people having had their 1st jab (2/3rds of the adult population) and over 16M having had both jabs (30% of the adult population) and the number of jabs in total averaging over half a million a day, that is impressive.

All good news, although there are stories about cases abroad (Seychelles) where 2/3rds of the cases have had both jabs which on the face of it raise concerns but the reports I've seen are pretty scant on detail - did they go into hospital, any deaths etc. I would imagine that we will still have cases but that in itself isn't the issue, it is whether they need hospitalisation beyond that.

Also the call to speed up the release of restrictions is being made but the step by step approach is still the right one IMO as if something goes wrong then they will know which bit to rewind.