36 COVID fatalities reported today. We are on the way out of this 🌟🌟

[Jkslays]

36 reported fatalities today (weekend caveat), the lowest number since the day before lockdown was announced. 77 & 115 the last two Sundays for comparison

Mercifully, the human toll of this crisis is easing

I'm hopeful the trends will continue to improve

As reported by Professor Karol Sikora on Twitter

This is amazing news and surely our schools should be able to open as normal come September!

What the government is worried about is a second wave during flu season. And as far as the NHS has coped ....yes it has by stopping everything other than treating Covid patients. The Nightingale hospital in London had just 50 patients because it did not have enough intensive care staff to run it not because it was not needed. It was needed to transfer Covid patients there so hospitals could deal with other patients i.e heart attacks, cancer patients transplants etc all which have not been dealt with causing death not by Covid but because of Covid. So NHS hasn't coped in real terms because it was impossible for it to do so being starved of money and resources for the last 10 years due to austerity measures. The slogan save the NHS was a political one because can you imagine the deaths if they didn't Chuck out all those blocking beds into carehomes untested for Covid to vacate beds for Covid patients? Can't have the public realise that the high death rate was anything to do with their austerity measures can we?!
Our wonderful NHS workers are worrying because they are the ones who really know what could happen very soon. They are true heroes along with careworkers. So being complacent is not a good idea. The NHS survived by the skin of it's teeth but at an extremely high cost of lives. I doubt it could do it again.

Have people seen the thread full of NHS workers off the brink of burnout/resigning/going off sick?

No, i haven't. Where is that thread please? It doesn't surprise me, they've done a terrific job!

Think it's under health and covid

No it's under Coronavirus

Only 15 new deaths today and infections under 1,000

Really positive! I just worry about the summer with everyone going here there and everywhere. Much harder to track. People won't stick to quarantine on return (if it is even still around by then!)

Only 15 new deaths today and infections under 1,000

W/E lag and is only confirmed CV infections, not the 5000 per day ONS says is occuring.

However all numbers are going in the right direction :)

It’s the deaths I’m focusing on. People get ill and recover all the time.