Commentary

At present the average number of daily deaths from all causes is about 1,400 per day in England and Wales. As autumn and the winter...

A quiet weekend as far as covid statistics are concerned. We continue to do just over 1 million tests each day and over 30,000 testing...

I was hoping to include the changes Grant Shapps is expected to make today about international travel. So far there is no detail of when...

Mid September 2021, and eighteen months into the pandemic, what is the adult population of Britain? The short answer is that no one has...

The UK seems to have settled into a new normal way of life now, with half the country following the advisory guidelines and the other...

There are no surprises in the latest statistics published. The slow steady rise in the figures continue. As a result, Covid has almost...

Predictably, as the schools returned the number of daily tests for Covid rose by nearly 250,000 yesterday, but otherwise the statistics...

Well over 1 million tests have been done daily according to the figures published for the last three days. Today mass testing in schools...

The figures for today have included the young people aged 16-17 for the first time, however numbers are relatively small, with the change...

As Monday was a Bank Holiday, it is to be expected that today Wednesday will have the highest numbers reported this week. 921,000 tests...

How was your Bank holiday? There was plenty of choice for those wanting to catch Covid 19. There were football matches, a test match,...

I have been very delayed starting tonight’s report but have finally been able to start it. Just as the news from Afghanistan is terrible,...

The last two days have continued to provide a largely stable picture of the pandemic, With the number of cases only slowly creeping up,...

To boost or not to boost --- that is the question? The WHO says firmly NO but what do you say? Do we just go with the flow, or do we stay...

I think there is no doubt now that all the figures are going in the wrong direction despite everyone’s best efforts. The rise is only...

There are small rises across the board to report today apart from the number of tests being done. This is a little disappointing as new...

We remain in the midst of a pandemic, which is the worst the world has seen for over 100 years and yet other important developments in...

The situation overall seems to remain steady at present with small day-to-day fluctuations, although the last few days have again shown a...

Scanning the news pages on the internet there is barely a mention of the Covid pandemic. It’s hard to believe we still have a major...

The Covid pandemic, at least in England, is in a quiet phase. The statistics for the last 3 days are influenced by the weekend. When...