Commentary

The relentless increase in new covid infections continues here, and in many other parts of the world. At the beginning of March we were...

The number of Covid 19 tests being done continues to rise by about 10% week on week. For the last 7 days it is almost 5 million tests,...

Despite concerns that people were likely to drop routine testing if they were no longer required to, the British public have responded to...

Yet again the data was late, it finally was posted at 5 30pm, but lacked a lot of detail from Scotland. It is supposed to be released at...

My apologies for the fact that today’s report has been in two parts. I have provided you with the data for today and now I will turn more...

There have been delays yet again with the data tonight and the upward trend in new cases continues. 4,553,814 tests have been done in the...

The concerns I expressed on Monday night are confirmed tonight with all the figures now suggesting a new wave of Covid infections is...

I have concerns tonight that we are beginning to see a change in the data suggesting that the number of new cases may be rising again. It...

Today is the third day of data being produced in 7-day chunks. Data for tomorrow is collated by adding the most recent days figure and...

As other dramatic and worrying world events continue into a fifth day, news about Covid has all but disappeared from the news media. To...

Tonight, the loss of life is beginning to rise significantly following the Russian aggression in the Ukraine. Most people had hoped that...

By the time I write my next report all mandatory Covid restrictions will have been removed. It looks as though an invasion of Ukraine is...

The statistics became available before the PM made his parliamentary announcements today, so I will deal with them first. The numbers...

I write my report tonight wondering how many of you will be able to read it, and even if I will be able to complete it before we lose...

The number of tests being done have dropped significantly this week with only just over 880,000 on each of the last two days. The drop...

Today’s data suggests that all is on track with our gradual withdrawal from the Covid pandemic and the country can continue to get back...

Following my last report, I was asked to expand on the science behind hand washing. The story begins with a Hungarian obstetrician giving...

In what is clearly a political decision and without public reference to SAGE or his Principal Medical Advisors, the Prime Minister today...

For most of us no news is good news when it comes to Covid. On the other hand, the media and news organisations want bad news because bad...

After a further week of political turmoil emanating from Parliament it is pleasing to be able to say that they seem to be getting things...