Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Lyle Lanley]

8 minutes ago, superbigal said:

Daily Cases Update:   No change to the upwards trajectory.  This time another near 8% and positivity up to 2.1% ,  Wales & Northern Ireland continue to drop. We now are more than 6 times that of Wales and nearly twice of NI.

Renfrewshire seems sure to go top. Edinburgh rate growing very quickly.  

In Europe no major country now is above 150 per 100K.  There are now nearly 30 countries in Europe with lower case numbers than Scotland. Including Italy and even savaged Czech Republic & Serbia.

Scotland peaked at 301.9 for figures 29th Dec to 4th Jan, (UK was 642.1)    Cases that day were 16,496 and test positivity rate was 11.9%  

Total Cases 7 days from 20th May to 26th May  were 2767 now 2986 up 7.91%.  Positivity was 2.0% now 2.1%.   Cases per 100k were 50.6 now 54.7

Home Nations Daily update:  UK Average  24.9 to 26.2 up 5.22%, England  23.6 to 24.8 up 5.08%,  Wales  9.3 to 8.7 down 6.45%, Northern Ireland 33.4 to 30.9 down 7.49%

Council progress in last 24 Hours as follows.

Click cases by neighbourhood to see the spread on the geographical map. 
https://public.tableau.com/profile/phs.covid.19#!/vizhome/COVID-19DailyDashboard_15960160643010/Overview

Naughty Level 3 Councils

Glasgow City  135.5 to 133.9   Down for 2nd day in a row.

Renfrewshire  115.6 to 132.3  Up 35% in 2 days and as I predicted sure to go top.

East Renfrewshire   106.8 to 124.6  Bit of a spike again but no real hotspots

Clackmannanshire    126.1 to 114.5 Back on the down part of the rollercoaster now.

Dundee City  75.7 to 89.1  Another mover on way towards top up near another 20%

Midlothian   85.4 to 86.5

South Lanarkshire 63.0 to 69.3 

East Dunbartonshire    70.9 to 69.0  Again maybe peaked

City Of Edinburgh   52.0 to 65.9  Silverknowes now Scotland's no go area at 920.4 per 100K    City up astonishing 27% overnight

North Ayrshire  60.1 to 52.0

North Lanarkshire  41.9 to 50.4  Up nearly 50% in 2 days.

Under 50 Level 2 Criteria Club

South Ayrshire  34.6 to 46.2  Up over 100% in 2 days.

East Ayrshire    36.1 to 45.9 Up 27%

Stirling  46.7 to 40.3  

Falkirk   31.7 to 34.8

Fife   29.2 to 35.1 

Perth & Kinross   28.3 to 30.3 

West Dunbartonshire   25.9 to 24.7

 West Lothian  21.8 to 24.6

Angus   19.8 to 21.5

Inverclyde  15.4 to 20.6

The Should be in Level 1  Club Sub 20.0

Aberdeen City   14.9 to 15.7  

Moray   14.6 to 14.6 

East Lothian   13.1 to 11.2 

Aberdeenshire  10.0 to 10.3

Argyll & Bute   10.5 to 9.3

Highlands  7.6 to 8.9

Scottish  Borders  4.3 to 5.2

Dumfries & Galloway  3.4 to 2.7 

Western Isles  3.7 to 0.0

 Orkney Islands  9.0 to 0.0 

Shetland Islands 0.0 to 0.0

We should lockdown Silverknowes and the surrounding areas. 

[djchapsticks]

What a fucking feeling having a real pint in a pub. 

[Guest Bob Mahelp]

While I appreciate.....even look forward to.....superbigal's daily update, surely we should be moving away from concentrating solely on case numbers and be looking at what is relevent - deaths, and ICU and hospital admissions ?

There is only one question that needs to be answered.....the one that asks if an increase in cases leads to an increase in hospital admissions. 

If the answer to that question is 'no', then let's get on with life. 

[Elixir]

37 minutes ago, Lyle Lanley said:

We should lockdown Silverknowes and the surrounding areas. 

Giving Silverknowes the full Wuhan treatment would never be a bad idea IMO.

[Michael W]

The data is not exactly screaming massive problem at the moment. Marginally up or flat. 

[Marshmallo]

New variant just dropped

[Michael W]

4 minutes ago, Marshmallo said:

New variant just dropped

Super duper uber mutant variant. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

The Red Menace.

[Todd_is_God]

5 minutes ago, Marshmallo said:

New variant just dropped

Oh no.

Such a shame for the likes of Ding that we already know the existing vaccines will cigar the living daylights out of this variant, based entirely on them already doing just that.

[s_dog]

1 hour ago, Bob Mahelp said:

While I appreciate.....even look forward to.....superbigal's daily update, surely we should be moving away from concentrating solely on case numbers and be looking at what is relevent - deaths, and ICU and hospital admissions ?

There is only one question that needs to be answered.....the one that asks if an increase in cases leads to an increase in hospital admissions. 

If the answer to that question is 'no', then let's get on with life. 

They are rising, but in the worst hit area Bolton, they think cases have just about reached their peak, so if that's an example of how bad it'll get, that's good news. 

 

 

Apparently of 5,500 people who've contracted the more transmissible B.1.617.2 strain in the UK, around 61% were unvaccinated, 36% had one dose, and only 3% were fully vaccinated. Also, of the 12 people who've died so far, eight were unvaccinated, two had a first dose and two had received both doses. 

All pretty positive despite the rising case numbers.

Edited May 29, 2021 by s_dog

[Lyle Lanley]

21 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

The Red Menace.

The Phantom Menace variant. 

[Lyle Lanley]

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-fringe-future-jeopardy-social-20704891?fbclid=IwAR0eN8eHwV8HJXNGxcyJd1mCfBNNIhj9qT0Y81SmhDQY1UU72cn73UzZbJk
 

Edinburgh Fringe in jeopardy this year if the SG doesn’t ease social distancing rules for venues in the next fortnight. 

[Lyle Lanley]

Seeing the fan-zones in Manchester and London tonight makes me wonder if the SG would let fan-zones in stadiums across the country to watch the Euro’s. Clubs could make a few quid doing it. 

[Elixir]

The UK is very nearly there. Once we hit the same threshold as Israel of adults fully vaccinated - it's over. The data there is quite clear.

[Todd_is_God]

11 minutes ago, Elixir said:

The UK is very nearly there. Once we hit the same threshold as Israel of adults fully vaccinated - it's over. The data there is quite clear.

Of course we are. But the next 6 months or so are going to be excruciating as we slowly tiptoe towards normality for no reason other than to placate the same band of Lovejoys that the Government helped to create.

[Bairnardo]

Of course we are. But the next 6 months or so are going to be excruciating as we slowly tiptoe towards normality for no reason other than to placate the same band of Lovejoys that the Government helped to create.

Aye, the final removal of the last shreds of "we will protect you" measures still feel a way off.

[Thereisalight..]

Glorious to see a decent number of fans at tonight’s game, barely a mask amongst them plus two fanzones in Manchester and London. 

[Thereisalight..]

Did the two European finals this week require vaccine passports or LFT testing? 

[effeffsee_the2nd]

Seeing the fan-zones in Manchester and London tonight makes me wonder if the SG would let fan-zones in stadiums across the country to watch the Euro’s. Clubs could make a few quid doing it. 

For all the man city and chelsea “fans” we have up here I don’t doubt it unfortunately

[Honest Saints Fan]

Party for my daughters 5th birthday today. BBQ with all our family this evening. Covid antibody results just in. Open up the country Nicola, babe.