Why are we still seeing so many new cases of Covid?

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This is a serious question. Why is it after almost 5 weeks of lockdown are we seeing 4000+ new cases in hospital every day and that's not including care homes. Who are these people? Are they people going to work , using public transport etc? My DH and I have stuck to the guidance from the Government and we're avoiding going to the shops so not mixing with anyone. This applies to everyone in my extended family too. I know it might be speculation but does anyone know we're still getting this many cases every day?

Just as you described, going to work, to supermarkets etc.

Have you seen how busy the roads are!

The police should have done more

Because many people haven’t actually done lockdown or social distancing with other households.

Kids on my street have still been playing out since it began. My neighbours are in and out of each other’s houses, the huge queues outside B&Q and other DIY shops, people have to go to work if they can’t do it from home etc.

More testing = more detected cases.

It is the death rate I would keep an eye on.

Patients are catching it in hospital. I’ve seen it spread through my ward.

That's the point of taking it so seriously. It's a virus, it's highly communicable and hangs around long enough to remain virulent, even in lockdown situations.

Nobody is letting it, it is doing what it's nature demands.

Some people are still working outside the house. Some people don't believe there is a risk and continued socialising.

Idiots not following the advice; lockdown will only get stricter and never end if people continue flouting the rules to suit them! My neighbours (a middle age couple that live alone) had their adult daughter and son in law over and they went in the house and stayed for ages. The next day they had a couple over for a drunken bbq! They also go out for non essential bits every day and drive places for walks... here's me following all the rules and not getting to see or hug my relatives which is hard with young dc too. The worst thing is he husband is a key worker aswell so more risk!

More testing. Thousands more tests.

In Feb, March we had people with covid that were never tested

Front line workers including police, fire, medical, hispital workers, care, retail, transport, airport staff, refuge. Retired and working age people who still need to shop for food. Inpatients at hospitals for other reasons still becoming infected with covid-19.

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Although the cases are remaining high the level of hospital admissions is falling. They are doing more testing and testing vastly more people outside of hospital whereas initially they were only testing people in hospital. From this I take it to mean that they are picking up more of the milder cases that are not bringing people to the level they need to be hospitalised. This is a good thing I would have thought.

There should be stricter repercussions for some of those breaking the rules and putting ppl at risk.

I would hazard a guess that every week 20m people have to go shopping.

That is where the risk is currently.

People going to work, people going shopping for essentials, people using public transport for those necessary activities. We are working so hard at my place of work to minimise risks and encourage social distancing but it's a MH hospital, there is a limit to how far those policies can be adhered to without placing patients and visitors and staff in greater danger from other risks. And we can't stop all deliveries- food, cleaning products, medicine, all manner of things needed to keep the site running safely need to get here, patients needing MH care still have to be admitted, patients no longer detainable have to be discharged etc. It genuinely is not possible to eliminate opportunities for infection, I don't think.

Lockdown was not designed to eradicate infection

So most of you think it's because people are not adhering to the guidance so it will be extended. This makes me feel even more pissed off. I feel awful for (and appreciate) those having to go to work and this adds to the message, we must stay home to protect those you can't!

Because millions of people are not actually locked down and are going to work every day. I don't know why people have the impression that most of us are working from home/furloughed. Hardly anyone I know is actually at home.

The gov now give a breakdown of the testing - pillar 1 and pillar 2. The hospital admissions are going down which is good but they are still in the thousands and this no. needs to be much lower before moving on to the next stage.

Because by the time we locked down it was already everywhere. That takes considerable time to burn out when people still need to go out for work, fresh air and food.

This isn't the fault of the "Mr and Mrs Thicky-Everyman. Govts around the world took their eyes off the ball and this was already spread far and wide, endemic, before they even noticed it.

People go to work, they go shopping, they take public transport

the shop worker yesterday, keeping some sort of eye on the queue wiped his nose with the back of his hand behind me! grim
other people will be similarly unhygienic.

There are no queues in our B&Q. All orders are confirmed by staff near the entrance to the car park, customers remain in their cars and wait for the staff member to bring your order out, leave and then you get out of the car and load your order in. All staff membera wear special respiratory masks (not just cloth ones).

It's spreads through the hospital. Can't figure out why they don't screen if the patient is being admitted for non covid illness. Then put in isolation before . Nope they admit them straight onto the ward. Remember though the tests are only 60% accurate so there is probably many people wandering about who have been screened and think they are negative.

A lot of business are still operating, and many of the people working in them are still physically going out to work because the terms of our 'lockdown' permits them to do so.

It amazes me that people are getting deliveries etc. while also thinking that everyone in the country is at home. The supply chains and logistics for everything you are consuming (food or otherwise) require people to be going out to work, and that's without factoring in public services, healthcare etc.

There’s a lot of people on here trying to suggest it’s effectively the patients’ fault and it’s spreading because of people not obeying the rules. That’s very unlikely to be true, as places where lockdown is very strict and strictly enforced have had similar slow slowdowns in cases. People catch it within households, in hospitals, in essential workspaces. Once a very infectious disease has spread widely it takes a very long time to get it under control.