Daily Covid cases fall 22% in a week to 34,029

The number of daily Covid cases continues to fall in England, despite Boris ignoring calls to re-impose Covid restrictions. This afternoon’s update from the Department of Health’s shows there were 34,029 new infections in the past 24 hours, marking a 22% fall compared to last Friday. MailOnline has more.

The news comes as the country’s largest official surveillance study found that cases had levelled off last week for the first time in nearly three months – but prevalence was still high.

The Office for National Statistics report estimated 1.1 million people in England were infected with the virus at any time in the week to October 30 – the equivalent of one in 50.

The finding finally brought the ONS study in line with the official testing programme, which has reported falling cases for 12 of the past 13 days.

Officials also revealed the UK’s R rate had fallen for the first time in months today, and is now estimated to be between 0.9 and 1.1.

Experts said the statistics suggested that the latest wave, triggered when schools went back from summer, had ‘likely peaked’ thanks to combination of vaccine immunity and previous infection.

It came as it emerged Britain is no longer the Covid capital of Western Europe. Austria, Belgium and Ireland are all recording higher infection rates and Germany looks bound to surpass the UK’s in weeks.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: More here on the Covid outbreaks in Belgium, Austria and Ireland’s in spite of having restrictions such as mask mandates and vaccine passports in place.

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rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

Ah, from Alex Jones, the most trusted source.

Have you ever noticed that you don’t bleed out after cutting your finger? Yeah, it’s called clotting. Shocking, I know.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Fuckwit

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Too kind.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

If you do “know”, you will be happy to acknowledge that the clotting also happens around the intra cellular site of the induced spike protein – and if your body’s immune response – antibodies – does not deal with the initial reaction to the jab, the spike protein is then produced which inexorably leads to …an inflammatory result; and pathologists have confirmed it is the inflammatory response from the production of the spike protein that causes the damage to cells, leading to illness and death for some people .

From my limited knowledge of physiology, your cut finger is assisted ably by Factor 8 in the blood – what your immune system does to counter the spike protein is a little different, is it not?

You gloss over that the video is produced by Dr Richard Fleming, nothing to do with “Alex Jones” and what he shows under the microscope is supported by histological samples taken from cadavers by Pathologists in the US – ref. Mayo Clinic samples shown by Dr Ryan Cole – and Europe.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

You don’t sound as if you’re the sharpest knife in the drawer…

kate
kate
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

https://www.ijbs.com/v17p0062.pdf

I have been looking for a paper on this, as I remember early on there were reports that Sars-Cov-19 has a direct effect on the ability of haemoglobin to carry oxygen, and the rapid bleaching of the red blood cells under Dr Fleming’s microscope reminded me of this.

So the low oxygen levels are not only because of microclots in the lungs, but the virus has a direct effect on blood chemistry and the haem molecule.
To me it looks as if the haemoglobin in the red blood cells is destroyed, as if it were just deoxygenated the colour would remain but the red would turn blueish, not white as we see here.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  kate

That’s all well and good but isn’t the original article discussing the idea that the vaccine is causing low oxygen levels, not the virus?

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  robnicholson

The jabs and Covid itself often overlap in effects, since the spike protein acts as a pathogen in both cases.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

If haem is destroyed that would explain part of the extreme tiredness often felt in Covid then.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Wow… this makes so much sense. More than a couple of friends have commented how they’ve been feeling out of breath but otherwise seem fine.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago

Let’s not wet ourselves here. I know the Daily Sceptic is simply reporting the ‘figures,’ but be wise not to use this as an argument for anything, because once we grant that the number of ‘cases’ is relevant with regard to restrictions and lockdowns, then if/when ‘cases’ go up again the other side has got you by the short and curlies.

‘Cases’ is not rational measure.

cornubian
4 years ago

Daily Sceptic always uses the regimes deceptive and misleading terminology as if it were factually true and scientifically accurate. I hope people are sceptical enough to see through this.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

The fact that Toby and his monkeys lie the lie “cases” instead of “claimed positive test results from a 45 cycle, non-specific PCR test not suitable for diagnostic purposes” tells you everything you need to know about this site.

Nitrambo
Nitrambo
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

it could be worse

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Nitrambo

Yes, that’s rather the point of controlled opposition.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Don’t be so damned rude.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Polite lies are still lies. If you don’t like to see plain truths, you’ve very welcome to hide under your blankie.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Someone has to counter their arguments – this is an excellent piece as usual by Will.

Manjushri
Manjushri
4 years ago

I’m still trying to figure out how an illness caused by an unknown pathogen is tested positive by equipment (PCR) that was never designed to identify something called covid19. They might as well be making up figures to fit the chosen text book graph curves as and when required.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Manjushri

Yes, you keep on trying, and maybe some day you will figure it out (although I don’t have high hopes in your special case).

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Fuckwit

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Try getting off the bottom rung of the debate ladder counter the argument not the person.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Manjushri

It was never designed to identify the whole gene sequence of SARS COV2 either, or whether the “molecules” identified were viral or not or inert or active; the process of reversing a strand of RNA to DNA, and then amplified (CT rate) many times over , beyond the limit where the “result”, determined by software and not anything else, is then deemed to be SARS COV2 and supposed to be cultured in a petrie dish to “prove” whatever “it” is is live. Snag is that the standard of biosecurity of the test labs necessary for any meaningful swab assessment result has been found to be grossly wanting in more than one case, and CT rates employed over a certain threshold deem the result unreliable. You can check out this inconvenient fact via many places on the internet, not least of which is the Government’s own web site which explains that any RT-PCR test cannot be taken as positive without further assessment. Very inconveniently I have never seen how many “further assessments” have been carried out to underpin the data for “positive cases” upon which this Government’s whole strategy is based…world class it ain’t

huxleypiggles
4 years ago

Spot on. Cases = casedemic.

kate
kate
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It astounds me that the regime can still witter on about further “waves”. We must have reached herd immunity months and months ago. How can people still accept this rubbish?

cornubian
4 years ago

Nearly everyone in the UK has coronovirus residue in them.Supposed ‘cases’ do not refer to people who are actually ill oreven infectious. ‘Case numbers’ can be raised or lowered at will simply by altering the cycle threshold or raising/lowering numbers of PCR procedures undertaken. Given all this, the actual R rate is unmeasurable, so can be any figure plucked out of the air.

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Yes, I always ask: of the people who test positive, how many go on to have any symptoms whatsoever. One would think that that was something that really should be measured, but if it has, I’ve never seen the figures (so I presume it has not been measured).

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

And me – been making same point for months now – but then those figures wouldn’t push out a fear based jabbing programme or support the destruction of the economy by lockdowns.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

“R” rate? Now that is medieval hocus pocus.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

And the number of leaves falling on any given day proves that climate change is happening every single year.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

25 minutes long video of a flight just a month ago (Oct 5th 2021) JFK New York to Helsinki, but you can slide through to any interesting bits – to show that face masks are being used at airports and on planes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOyAdKP6p6U

And Helsinki to Chicago, just one week ago – more face masks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txMaib8IEkk

RickH
4 years ago

Please! Don’t imitate the Covidiots. A week’s variation in a mythical modelling figure means absolutely nothing.

Not worth reading in summary – full of speculative shit about ‘infections’ etc. Let alone ‘in full’.

RW
RW
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

It does mean something: Case numbers reliably going down whenever enforced testing of pupils goes away instead of going up as the same pupils now spend more time mixing with the general population than they did before means testing in schools is pure bullshit.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  RW

These aren’t “case” numbers. If you have to be told that you’re dying from a lethal disease when you have no symptoms, you aren’t a “case”.

RW
RW
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

These are case numbers because they’re called cases. This is even technically correct as they are cases of positive test results. That’s just not what the Covidians have made the general population believe which is basically Someone’s going to get very sick and die because of this!

The purpose of my text was to point this out: Somehow, despite cases were said to be surging in schoolchildren before the halfterm break, nothing happened and cases are again falling now. Without any measures introduced and without any ill consequences except the usual noises from the usual suspects.

IMHO, it’s better to point this out than waste time with terminology debates which are guaranteed to bypass a lot of people as they simply don’t use language that precisely, they just repeat the terms they’ve learnt, and make the person engaging in the terminology debate look like a really overzealous stickler who’s a bit strange.

In more general terms: We can’t force them to fight on our chosen battlefield, hence, we’ll have to beat them on their’s.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  RW

‘These are case numbers because they’re called cases. This is even technically correct as they are cases of positive test results.’ Which again assumes the positive in ‘positive test results’. It’s one step back. You’re still granting their terminology, which, despite your protestations below, concedes ground that need not be conceded. Once you concede fundamentals concerning language/terminology, you’re on their ground, and they can manipulate you accordingly. Your next paragraph will provide an appropriate example: ‘Somehow, despite cases were said to be surging in schoolchildren before the halfterm break, nothing happened and cases are again falling now.’ What if the other side falls back on testing, and asserts that the number of those being tested has fallen (and let’s say they’re right), and quickly demands that testing be stepped up once again? You know, just like our side has been bemoaning the mass testing of citizens (about which they are not wrong, but as I hope you can see, concedes ground when we should be cutting the other side off at its ankles), which, given the nature of PCR testing, has grossly exaggerated things. This right here ought to alert you to the very merry-go-around on which you chose to board. ‘…it’s better to point this out than waste time… Read more »

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  RW

I didn’t rape you. Stop saying that I raped you. It was just monoconsensual sex, and it only happened once. Don’t nitpick over the technicalities, just look at the headline number.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I think pretty much every here knows that they really aren’t case numbers in the traditional understanding of the term but the fact they are going down is good news even if a percentage of the numbers are sketchy.

Lilacblue
Lilacblue
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Banging your head against a brick wall. Please don’t stop, it needs to be done, but they just don’t get it.

miketa1957
miketa1957
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Actually it does mean something: the figures always show that the modellers always significantly overestimate future trends.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

It means DS is running out of content.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Fuckwit

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

The problem is mainly a failure to sufficiently re-frame content from unreliable sources that use loose language.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

I see “Daily Mail” and approach with caution.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Well considering the recent article about how many people are reading the DS compared to other news stories, I would say they are doing something right. Never before have I read so much news daily.

Although I do think that the team have forgotten the lesson that they published here last year – don’t fight with more facts & figures when the other side is based on emotion and the moral high ground.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

These aren’t figures from a model??

martinbritnell83
martinbritnell83
4 years ago

I really couldn’t give a shit about how many covid cases there have been. It’s pushing me off that you have to hear about it every day!

isobar
4 years ago

Yes the psychological torture continues aided and abetted by the ‘bought and paid for’ MSM.

Anti_socialist
4 years ago

Vaccine immunity?

When did this start happening? Our great leader, Depifffel the Johnson, told us the vaccines don’t stop infection or transmission, was this misinformation? Will the online harms bill arrest him for the psychological distress this has caused me?

RW
RW
4 years ago

Experts said the statistics suggested that the latest wave, triggered when schools went back from summer

Wave of positive test results in healthy pupils who escaped the scamdemic machinery over the summer holidays, that is. Pupils don’t magically catch COVID in schools, they were catching from the peers and others during the holidays but nobody noticed. Also, the infected pupils are now among us, so, cases should certainly not be falling. On its own, COVID always grows exponentially until the health system collapses. After almost two years of that not happening, everybody knows this!

Someone with a working brain at the Mail, somewhere at least?

Norman
4 years ago

Whether or not you believe in “cases” or not, is it the metric they use to scare people with predictions of its future value, so when their metric doesn’t play ball with their narrative it is good.

Paul B
4 years ago

Sorry “vaccine immunity”?! That’s on oxymoron in this case!

Catee
4 years ago

I’m amazed the figure is 1 in 50 considering the supposedly small percentage of the adult population who remain unvaccinated, they mustball be getting it every other month.

bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

I hate that 1 in 50 balls. Means 49 out of every 50 don’t have Covid. Last Christmas when they kept on about the 1 in whatever it would make me want to scream at the TV and say if one in every two people had covid it actually means about 35 million people do not have covid.

DrAnnoyed
DrAnnoyed
4 years ago

The number of daily Covid cases continues to fall in England, BECAUSE (not despite) Boris ignoring calls to re-impose Covid restrictions.

Looking at figures from across the world this pattern is now very clear, ignore covid and it will get under control, over-react tyrannically and the disease will always outsmart you.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  DrAnnoyed

Yes, whatever the cases/testing hyperbole, quite a lot of people – anecdotally – got it symptomatically in summer (my own NI was updated, I believe), a good time to get it over with.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

I also believe my own NI was likewise updated in the summer. Am doing my level best to hold on to my NI for as long as I can.

mka1221
4 years ago

I’m sure someone else has already posted this, but why over a week since overhauling Maps, is Google still insisting that Wales is in a national lockdown? Here’s a screenshot from just now:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/google-maps-thinks-wales-is-still-in-lockdown-and-we-all-have-to-stay-at-home/ar-AAQbDBt

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tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

Maybe because the restrictions like vaccination passports that still obtain in Wales feel an awful lot like lockdown.

James Leary #KBF
4 years ago

I heard a rent-a-GOBbels yesterday explaining that the decreasing ‘cases’ were a result of people voluntarily following SAGE advice and socially distancing and masking despite government inaction. There are so many unprovable double negatives in that statement that I almost thought ‘Genius’. Not what I found myself saying, I’m pleased to say. 

Julian
4 years ago

socially distancing and masking” Just been to an activity in a local secondary school sports hall – busy with parents and kids. This time last year most of the parents were masked up, this year none were. Small glimmer of hope. I think there are a lot of people out there (probably most of them vaxxed) who are ready to forget about covid.

RW
RW
4 years ago

Absolutely brilliant. If this happens again, immediately point out that this means government action wasn’t necessary. 🙂

bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago

Hmmm. Let me run through yesterday. Packed commuter train into London. All available office desks taken. Central Line to Epping, long wait for a train = rammed tube. Meal in a restaurant. Trip to the football. Commuter train home afterwards packed. Social distancing – zero. Masks. Yep defo on the Central Line not many anywhere else. Yeah clearly everyone following the advice. I am going to make the sunrise tomorrow and then the moon. That’s my gift to humanity. Prove me wrong !

I am Spartacas
4 years ago

Of all the drugs that should undergo rigorous testing procedures this should be at the top. Whether or not this occurs is left to be seen, but following with what we’ve seen so far I’ll remain skeptical.

To think that British regulators have approved this drug already …

A Possible Side Effect of Merck’s Oral COVID-19 Drug should alarm the Public

A rush for molnupiravir’s approval could lead to disaster.

https://moderndiscontent.substack.com/p/the-possible-side-effect-of-mercks

isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Yes, here we go again. Have we learnt nothing from the rush to ‘vaccinate’ whilst ignoring the sometimes life-threatening side effects.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

I see it as a double pronged attack – if people won’t have jabs and you can’t get them that way, then unjabbed they might get covid and you can treat them with this pill, with what seems to be a big risk that they could develop cancer – and hence get them that way. Won’t contribute to any kind of social ID but would contribute to a depopulation drive if that is what they are after.

Clever no? offer it as a ‘game changer’ to kill of the ‘pandemic’ with one hand [great PR] and still harm unwitting recipients at the same time.

MTF
MTF
4 years ago

The trend is downwards but this headline is daft. Had they done the comparison yesterday the drop would have been 6%. Had they done it on Monday it would have been an increase of 10%.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  MTF

Fuckwit

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Stop shouting at the mirror

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  MTF

Well in general I think taking part in the fantasy world of the “covid pandemic” by talking about “cases” is a losing game, but you could see it as playing the enemy at their own game – cherry picking stats and distorting the truth.

Beyond that, if the doomsayers were to be believed, “cases” would never have gone down after July 19th – we were heading for certain disaster.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Yes, this article should have taken the opportunity to re-iterate that. Although locally cases have never been so high since I started tracking them a year ago. Nobody is getting ill or dying though. The vaxxers will trumpet this as a clear success but don’t tend to response when you ask “So how come deaths also failed before we had a vaccine before March”? More likely the delta variant was true to form and was more infectious but less deadly plus the highly susceptible already had it combined with natural immunity. But no, the silver bullet was/is the vaccine. Logical thinking is sadly lacking.

grob1234
grob1234
4 years ago

I’m more interested in the fact “cases” are rising in countries with vax passes and mask wearing and less testing than the U.K.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Look at the comments below the article.

In one comment is a link to a site which posts a sort of “covid timeline”. IF [and it is a big if] what is written in that time-line is to be believed, then World Bank Funding was sought for the world wide pandemic and it is guaranteed from 2
April 2020 until March 2025.

So, another 3 years of this to run then.

thinkcriticall
4 years ago

What’s going on? I think we know!

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realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  thinkcriticall

Hmmm… what could it be?

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robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  thinkcriticall

Although to be fair, that top-left one about treating people in hallways occurs every year. Tried to find (but failed) the graphic with stories from the Guardian showing headlines like “Patients dying in corridors” going back 10 years.

JayBee
4 years ago

The clearest correlation and most likely causation drawn from these comps is more masks = more cases…
Which is what anyone with an IQ above room temperature derived at through using simple logic in Spring 20 already.

Stephanos
Stephanos
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Is the room temperature measured in degrees Fahrenheit or in Continental perversions? Either way, you have made your point.

grob1234
grob1234
4 years ago

Anyone see the disgusting misrepresentation on the BBC this evening?

They’re now using the infection estimate as their measure of Covid. Not the falling case numbers. They literally make it up as they go along to stoke up the fear.

I give up with the bbc.

JME
JME
4 years ago
Reply to  grob1234

Must say I haven’t watched or listened to the BBC or any other news channel since this whole s**tshow kicked off. They’re all just government propaganda machines &, as you say, make it up as they go along. Just wish the whole of the country would do the same- that would end it all tomorrow.

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  grob1234

I have up on the BBC about six months ago. Actively avoid them now.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  robnicholson

I very much enjoy their letters about how an inspector is imminently to arrive. Is costing them a lot of postage.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

I think I had a “visit” from one of their goons the other day. Naturally, I didn’t answer the door.

LonePatriot
LonePatriot
4 years ago

The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://health.p0l.org

robnicholson
robnicholson
4 years ago
Reply to  LonePatriot

I’d love to know the truth about Ivermectin and other things like Vitamin D and Zinc.

karenovirus
4 years ago

Error

huxleypiggles
4 years ago

What’s 34,000 as a percentage of seventy (70) million?

rockoman
rockoman
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

0.00049%

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

But they’re not ”cases”, are they?