North west is it past peak?

[Gobacktothe90s]

Some good news for north west area, the past 4 days there has been a downward trend in cases.
Do people think the north west has passed its peak and is weeks ahead of every other region regarding the peak and will now slow?
I hope so as I'm so worried with hospitals cancelling surgeries and appointments to cope with COVID.

I wonder what this will mean if cases drop but other regions increase dramatically as it did here and regards to lockdown as we have been under restrictions it fells like forever

I'm being cautiously optimistic. Hopefully this lockdown will drive it right down to something manageable.

I love on Lancaster and I'm so pleased to see the rates dropping. Have you seen Preston though?! I think it's something like 470 at the moment which is insane!! They've been in a local lockdown for so long aswell, even before the tiers!

Blackburn still high. I think Preston, Burnley and Rossendale figures are going up.

Pendle. Not Preston.

I really really hope so!!

I do think we will go back to Tiers In Dec so hopefully it'll mean you can go back to a lower Tier than you were on before the national lockdown, but I'm not too familiar with all the areas up north, so I'm not sure how the ones that are still high will impact you.

It's such a half arsed National
Lockdown though, it's hard to see it having the desired outcome 😢

Preston is sky high at the min and Blackburn is also bad

The bbc figures seem much less than those posted on Lancashire live - they say some areas or Blackburn are now 1500/100000

Think half of Lancashire is on the rise

I’m between Preston and Lancaster. The people I know who’ve had Covid all work in, or are at, schools.

@Ginogineli I can believe that about Blackburn.

i'm in GM. We've had lockdown of sorts since the end of July. Figures are slowly heading downwards but I'm not that optimistic about being anywhere other than tier 3 at the end of this. There's so much of it here it might as well be endemic. Other iterations of lockdown haven't helped, traffic is flowing past my house as normal so clearly we need some new ideas round here.

That said I am looking at hospitalisation figures and they are stabilising, possibly dropping a bit. And cases have gone down which should follow that in a week or so there'll be more of a drop there.

I hope so. Some areas still rising which is a worry but a lot less than before.
Also seems less cases in schools , touch wood, at the minute. Before half term it was relentless.

It was always like to slow down around half term. It's whether it goes up again now they return to term.

@Imissmoominmama

I’m between Preston and Lancaster. The people I know who’ve had Covid all work in, or are at, schools.

The schools and unis are the driver of it.

Preston and Lancaster are big uni cities.

Half term will have eased the pressure a bit, temporarily at least. The half arsed measures in the tiers and this lockdown that's not a lockdown isn't likely to do much.