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Previously tried to contact every household member (even kids), now contacting one person and counting whole household as contacted. think that’s right anyway

All the science boffins appear genuinely concerned about the spread of new strain but agree, the media, like throughout the pandemic, love to whip up further panic ! Like they have done with the French port border issue - whilst we might run out of certain items of fruit/veg for a short period...

Sounds like the EC is having to get involved in both the fisheries (from what I’ve read Barnier and CVD apparently want to accept UKs latest proposal, France and possibly Denmark don’t) and the travel disruption by calling on countries (ie France) not to disrupt the supply chain. It’s not just...

Im not sure about schools Tony. My understanding is that the change in counting method was more about say a household (mum, dad, three kids) had been in contact with someone with Covid, it appears that track and trace would previously try and call/contact all five of them separately, now it...

The percentage Dave posted (and where they changed the counting method) was close contact tracing. Im not an avid Mirror reader but here’s a link (first google result) https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-test-trace-suddenly-hits-23182362.amp My additional...

This is good news (assuming correct). The counting method changes are sensible and should’ve been implemented sooner. From what I’ve read, now they aren’t trying to contact every separate member of the household. Previously this led to numerous calls to the same household especially when kids...

See article I’ve attached above. Pretty much suggested that as a compromise (over transition period of 5 tears) and why it works for both sides. As I’ve said before, what do people actually want ? (in particular the extreme Remainers who have never accepted result and the ‘cut all ties’...

I agree SBD, there were definitively lessons that should’ve learned and incorporated into our planning. Pretty much the whole of western world has been caught out by this. Apparently in the U.K. our pandemic preparedness was supposed to be better than most....prepared for what though ??? How...

Interesting (ish) well balanced article on the fish negotiations and potential solution if anyone’s interested...makes a solution sound doable (with a bit of political will on both sides)...

Not even Rees-Mogg ?!

‘Maybe a highly contagious strain of Covid and food shortages which further spoils everyone’s Christmases will teach them’. 🙄 Why people (not just you Bodicote) are tying this to brexit with an ‘I told you so’ attitude is as bad as Farage, Williamson etc on the other side when they were...

Yeah, still uncertain but guessing they’ve looked at likely higher transmission, the jump in cases over past few days, anticipated Christmas travel activity and modelling and decided they can’t risk it. Like some of the modelling though, a bit questionable as element of guess work (especially...

I was as well.

The messaging was shit. I would’ve always managed expectations to say restrictions could change at any time etc etc but as mentioned above it appears the strain/variant is genuine and issues only became apparent recently Ps Christmas was fucked in some way for most anyway, it’s the level of...

heard a professor from Imperial college discussing it yesterday, which reassured me that it wasn’t part of some weird conspiracy. I think other countries reactions and the latest case data also support this

Exactly. That’s what I was trying to say (not very well obviously !) ie that they might see there’s a new strain/variant but you’re not going to have any info/data on how it differs etc for a while. Suppose it’s good news that the boffins spotted it really...even if it has fucked up a lot of...

Now I’m no fan of Hancock (he’s a prick) however I think there was a difference between the two comments. It sounds like he knew about the new strain over a week ago but they only found out about the issue of its significantly increased transmissibility (is that a word ?! looks weird when...

Yeah, not good. I reckon that new strains already elsewhere. Birmingham (in T3 since end of lockdown) has seen cases go up 25% this week (and cases were 567 today after being around 300 up to a few day’s ago) Just an absolute bitch with the timing