Covid Reported Infections Plunge by Another 20% in a Week to Lowest Level Since Start of December

Britain’s Omicron wave is still fizzling out ahead of the Prime Minister’s planned ending of the final Covid rules next week, according to official figures which show the outbreak is shrinking in terms of infections, hospitalisations and deaths. MailOnline has more.

U.K. Health Security Agency bosses logged 47,685 positive tests over the past 24 hours, a fifth down on last week’s count. The rolling seven-day average number of daily cases, considered a more accurate measure, has dipped to below 47,000, mirroring levels seen at the start of December before Omicron had properly taken off.

Daily hospital admissions across the U.K. have fallen by 8% over the same time-frame as the pressure on the NHS continues to recede. And deaths have fallen by 18%, with 158 victims recorded today.

The Prime Minister is set to unveil his blueprint for ‘living with Covid’ on Monday, with ministers set to finalise the the strategy over the weekend. When unveiling his intention to get rid of the last restrictions – including the need for infected people to self-isolate – the PM last week claimed it would only happen if the outbreak continued to recede.

Today’s figures will inevitably give him even more confidence, with cases, deaths and hospitalisations having been in freefall for over a fortnight. …

Latest testing figures show 14% fewer swabs were carried out across the UK compared to last week. But the positivity rate – the proportion of swabs that detect the virus – is also trending downwards, suggesting that the fall in cases is genuine and not just down to fewer tests. …

Hospitalisation data shows 11,555 people infected with the virus were occupying beds at 8am [Friday] morning – 10% fewer than a week ago and the lowest level in seven weeks.

And 331 Covid patients were in intensive care across the U.K. [on Friday] – the fewest in more than seven months.

Vaccination data shows 91.4% of people aged 12 and over have had at least one Covid vaccine, while 84.9% are double-jabbed and two-thirds are boosted. 

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MikeAustin
4 years ago

Now stay behind after school Will and write out 100x, “They are not infections

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago
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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago

Who says it’s not Tiananmen? I hope one day these brave people will have statues, they inspired the world.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes, indeed. They are brave against lots of ‘police’ ready muzzled and fully equipped with Star Wars gear, posted in to ‘quell’ them (as if they needed any ‘quelling’).
Today someone made a video (posted on Yootoob) that shows two UN passenger aircraft at North Bay.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

It’s worse than that. If what supposedly gives us the confidence to open up is falling infections*, then all it will take is a rise in infections* to bring back restrictions.

They may suspend “free” tests and the obligation to isolate for now. But they are definitely going to keep the tests in places like hospitals. They will use hospital tests like a canary in the mine. The moment they start going up in hospitals, they’ll bring them bask in the general population.

That is the basis of the new order that has been put in place in the last two years. The state has given itself the authority from now on to monitor the population for diseases, just like we do with animals, force testing if necessary and force treatments it considers appropriate.

We have been reduced to the status of cattle and it has happened just like Huxley predicted: we’ve asked for this servitude and we love it.

(* a positive coronavirus test)

olaffreya
olaffreya
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Even if they were infections – seriously folks have we forgot we are now dealing with what amounts to the common cold? Mind I will continue to support Will, as he and others on this site are some of the few standing up against this madness.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Yes. After all this time!!!!!!

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Yep, really angry at a so called sceptic site constantly deploying the enemies warped terminology and fake stats against us. All we can do is keep calling it out.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Cut him some slack – at least he didn’t call them ”cases”.

mwhite
4 years ago
Star
4 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

So anti-government solidarity over the internet wasn’t as easy as many mistakenly thought.

It’s a bit like thinking you can act in solidarity with other people by leaving messages for them at the local police station or Pinkerton office.

LordFauntelroy
4 years ago

Still time to work up a good panic

CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
4 years ago

Shocking clot shot uptake figures, I naively thought there might at least be a bit more reluctance to get the booster. Bozo’s exhortations worked well.

The Dogman
The Dogman
4 years ago

I wouldn’t take that percentage at face value. The Government persist on using the wrong data for the total population which makes it look as if more people have had the gene jab than is actually the case.

CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
4 years ago
Reply to  The Dogman

I hope you’re right, it’s disturbing how gullible people are, even on this site.

pjar
4 years ago

As always, I’d like to see the total number of test that gives these figures… I’d be surprised if anywhere near as many people are testing themselves now?

PartyTime
4 years ago
Reply to  pjar

Indeed, the Zoe project is not yet showing a fall in incidence. It’s curious how much longer it’s taking for these waves to subside, compared to the spikes of 2-4 weeks in low income countries.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  PartyTime

“Waves” of what? Isn’t it all somewhat meaningless? Have we ever before micromeasured people feeling poorly in this way?

olaffreya
olaffreya
4 years ago
Reply to  PartyTime

Spector read Spectre – taken over ages ago by the covid establishment I suspect. 007 may be just what is needed!

PartyTime
4 years ago
Reply to  PartyTime

Actually, there’s no mystery why the Zoe count takes longer to subside. They use a 14 day moving average, which will appear to stretch out the outbreak. Currently in my area their estimate of active “cases” is dropping by roughly 1/14 every day, suggesting that there are now few new “cases”.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  pjar

A rellie of mine who watches FaceAcheBook (but doesn’t partake) says she is appalled just how many people seem to be completely in thrall to ‘testing’ – even comparing results, with a ‘mine’s bigger than yours’ mentality.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago

I’m watching Hull FC v St. Helen’s. Nothing to do with this story, I just want to see if I get a down vote.

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

There is a sad individual who scans every post for a couple of hours downticking each one without commenting.

A psychologically impaired bedwetter who is too much of a coward to reply.

I hope your team wins.

TC
TC
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

I have upticked you.
Let the Phantom Downticker do his worst.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  TC

I’m doing better than my team, Hull.

olaffreya
olaffreya
4 years ago
Reply to  TC

Come on folks, give the poor downticker soul a break – just a burdened individual who needs our pity surely?

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

If this was a woke website, they would respond by removing the ability to downvote

Menckenitis
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

There’s a new variant of concern emerging among internet users – Down Syndrome.

artfelix
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

As a fellow Hull FC supporter, have an uptick

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago

This was always a pandemic of tests.

We never had mass testing for flu or the common cold.

Stop all testing and if you have symptoms do what people have done for thousands of years, look after yourself and try not to spread it to anyone else.

We don’t need a label for every virus.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

A thousand times, yes!
All of us must have been told as children not to hug and kiss our grandparents when we had a cold (especially if they themselves were unwell). We weren’t traumatised, masked and tested within an inch of our lives – we were taught gentle lessons about thoughtfulness and behaving responsibly.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

They are labelling them in the same way they now label bad weather – to make them stand out from the normal pattern of events and give them unwarranted importance.

Aleajactaest
4 years ago

Tests aren’t cases.

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago

We are the 8.6%.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

That figure is false.

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

It’s the figure quoted in the article ……

Vaccination data shows 91.4% of people aged 12 and over have had at least one Covid vaccine,”

Please link to the data that shows the figure which you believe to be correct.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

This is the trouble with this ‘sceptic’ site. It continually quotes lies as if they are facts, and sceptics believe them because it was on this site. January Surveillance Report said this…

15 mill not jabbed.png
GlassHalfFull
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

I think you will find that we take all official figures with a pinch of salt.
Unfortunately they are the only ones we have.
This site has constantly stated that the official figures for the unjabbed are understated which makes the effectiveness of the jabs look better than they really are.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago

“The Prime Minister is set to unveil his blueprint for ‘living with Covid’ on Monday…”

Why would we need a “blueprint” to “live with” a bit of a sniffle? This idiotic idea is at the root of our troubles.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

It’s the official announcement of the new order.

If we were returning back to normal life, there would be no need to set out a blueprint.

We are about to be informed that unlike previously when our health was our own business and no one else’s, the state is now ultimately in charge of our health and will step in to dictate how we live our lives whenever it considers necessary.

Everyone will applaud it as sensible and will celebrate that the UK is once again ahead of its European neighbours.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Yep.

CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

More Bozo BS, he probably gets pep talks from Terdeau.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

The figure of 91.4% injected is a lie, and the DS editorial staff know it. Last months surveilance report showed that less than 70% were injected.

This lie is being repeated to make us appear small in number, and thereby undermine our resolve.

The resistance is 15 million strong. .

15 mill not jabbed.png
CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Those stats are three months old and before Bozo started spouting about mumbo jumbo, has much changed since then?

cornubian
4 years ago

The stats are a month old. Do you really think ten million resistors went and got their first injections last month?

Star
4 years ago

They are reported SARSCoV2 infections, not “Covid infections”.

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

No, they are reporting SARSCov2 test results, at what CT value we know not.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

Its not just the CT value thats the problem. Its also the type of probes and primers used, and the fact the Lighthouse Labs are asserting a positive result based on single gene testing.

Sforzesca
Sforzesca
4 years ago

Yes and this is all due to the great vaccine rollout.
Credit to our great government and our magnificent Scientists.

That is about as credible as the 91.4% of people over 12 having had at least one “vaccine”.

Absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the act that err, viruses actually do what they always do. I think it’s called nature and we mess about with things beyond our comprehension at our peril.

All we have done is to accelerate the number of future variants available to infect the vaxxed who, courtesy thereof, now enjoy compromised immune systems.

GVB.
And this :-
https://www.authorea.com/users/455597/articles/552937-innate-immune-suppression-by-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccinations-the-role-of-g-quadruplexes-exosomes-and-micrornas

Star
4 years ago

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

The data could not be trusted on the way up and the data cannot be trusted on the way down

huxleypiggles
4 years ago

I appreciate DS should report this sort of information but my reaction is:

Am I bovvered?

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

Now that it would appear that three dissidents have been murdered by the Canadian Police all mention of Ottawa has been removed from the BBC News website

The Canada story has been replaced by an item informing us that some crabs and lobsters have been killed by the joke storm

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch any BBC media (TV, radio, website) since March 2020. It would make me physically sick.

brachiopod
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Interestingly the Beeb still allows any answers contributors to speak truth to power, today’s had almost everyone siding with Putin and against ‘NATO’ aka the US military industrial complex/State Department and the EU. Only a couple of those phoning in were of the ‘the only good Red is a dead Red’ type who fails to see the issue from the POV of the country who doesn’t yet have a US occupying force but would rather not become one.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

I’ve read a very interesting post by Tom Luongo, that suggests it’s all a bit more complicated than Russia vs The West.

He makes a good argument that the big winner is the EU, which is actually looking to gain influence at the expense of the US.

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

I have scanned the local Ottawa press/TV output and there is not one mention of casualties. Just support of the police operation. The cover up is in full operation.

Julian
4 years ago

Bit disappointed with MTF and leek performance today – they’ve not managed to even try and pick irrelevant holes in a Will Jones article.

MTF
MTF
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

I am suffering from RSI so very limited typing. Anyway Will has only repeated the Mail article which reports good news about the epidemic. No problem!

felicityby
4 years ago

It’s been a painful couple of years and sometimes its hard to imagine people will ever see the light. I live in Wales and when I to go the supermarket (masks are still mandated here) I just despair. I feel like I live in a parallel universe. I guess this is human nature and would be repeated should we have another pandemic. Acceptance and a calm silence helps me cope when I find it hard to swim upstream and share my views.

kate
kate
4 years ago

HRA Reform – Tips for responding https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights-consultation Some points you might like to consider, and paraphrase in your own response if you resonate with these: 1. The “Modern Bill of Rights” you propose MUST NOT contradict, contravene, or in any way reduce the rights of any human being already established in UK’s existing body of laws. If it does, it will be unconstitutional in whole or in part. 2. The most important human right is bodily integrity. That means NO bodily interference without fully informed consent, freely given. The right to bodily integrity, therefore, MUST be included as an UNQUALIFIED right in any “Modern Bill of Rights.” 3. Attempts to prevent frivolous or dubious human rights claims (for example, a sociopathic/psychopathic killer wishing to avoid extradition/deportation by claiming a right to family life, his family being his cat or dog) MUST be addressed only by the discretion and wisdom of the courts, on a case by case basis and NOT by prescriptive legislation, because the latter will inevitably lead to unintended consequences (for example, if society became conditioned in the future to believe that mass vaccination was more important than bodily integrity or informed consent, then a “permission stage” could… Read more »

kate
kate
4 years ago

The truckers have won, for the govn, Trudeau never negotiated with them and had to resort to brute force to move them and get them out…no negotiation, just brute force, so in effect, the government has lost fully; you have to look at the big picture here…

These vaccines have placed our police and military in a very harmful situation and I will write it knowing the implications as a global scientist heavily worked and knowledgeable in COVID; it is my opinion that many of our police and soldiers will have medium and long term consequences of the vaccines and up to death; many have died from these already and the vaccine makers, nor CDC or NIH have ensured the proper studies to rule out the harms and risks.

I fear for our police and military and they were mislead and lied to by the public health officials at Health Canada and PHAC, as well as the provincial public health people under Premier Doug Ford.

https://palexander.substack.com/p/i-cannot-say-more-today-i-had-to?utm_source=url

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

And if they stopped this ridiculously pointless ‘testing’ then it would disappear from the eyes of men (and the others) completely.

SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
4 years ago

When nearly 90% of our population are vaccinated there are bound to be more of them infected and with other effects from Covid than the low numbers of unvaccinated. To give this information honestly the poportionality of vaccinated and unvaccinated needs to be applied to the graphs and data. I am strongly against giving the Vaccine to under 16 children, although am fully vacinated myself and am not pro or anti vaccine in adults. It will take at least two years to discover whether long term effects of the vaccines are worth their massive expense and profits handed to the big pharma companies whose only objective is profit.