Tieriffic or tierifying ... who knows!

[dancemom]

Quick title as last thread about to fill up ....

Great numbers again.

I see the 7 day positivity rate is 28.7 - edging closer to the 20 that Jason Leitch talked about as a WHO sign that the pandemic is under control.

Many areas have been below the 20 per 100000 rate for a long time now!

I know - Fife is taking its time but only 11 cases today or something. In almost 400,000 people....

The hospital and icu numbers just keep going down which makes me happy 😊

Yes, good to see the reduction in numbers - we’ve had 2 cases in the last 7 days and I think many locally have pretty much given up on lockdown.....

Let's hope it gets factored in to tomorrows announcement of things past the 26th of April!

I think I've lost a lot of hope in the SG now with this all and last year I was singing their praises on controlled summer easing.

This year I'm frustrated with so many things but particularly not taking into account vaccination rates in their levels structure and the level 0 of zero cases..... 🙄 Which just isn't possible.

I don't believe in wild fire spread but we have now got to a point where their needs to be more honesty and transparency. Covid isn't going back in that box so it's what we do going forward to live with it which there has been very little information on!

Hear, hear @Scottishskifun

I'm in Edinburgh and our numbers are tiny despite being 2nd largest city and behind on vaccines. Time to get on and open up before our businesses never recover!

The first minister confirms a further 178 people have tested positive for Covid-19, 1.4% of the tests carried out yesterday.
This takes the total number of positive cases in Scotland to 224,092.
There are 106 people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, up two from yesterday, and 13 in intensive care, down one from yesterday.
Two more deaths were reported in the past 24 hours of people who tested positive in the last 28 days.
The total number of deaths by that measurement remains at 7,644.
As of 07:30 on Tuesday, a total of 2,750,052 people have received the first dose of the vaccine, an increase of 2,358.
In addition, 40,152 received their second dose yesterday, meaning 797,267 have so far received the second jab overall.
More than 60% of the adult population have now received at least a first dose, the first minister says.

Thanks @dancemom
Great to see positive cases well under 200

Did anybody just watch the update?

NS mentioned that anyone can order lateral flow tests to keep at home to do regular test. She said they can be ordered online, but I can't find it in the nightmare leviathan of a website.

Does anyone have a link?

@BettysCardigan

Did she say that was from next Monday? Maybe something will appear over the weekend.

Oh maybe! My hairdresser phoned part of the way through

Thanks

Glasgow live saying gyms fully reopening - are classes allowed?

@WouldBeGood individual only according to our council. I'm trying to find out if family swimming will be allowed

Ok thanks. Thought it sounded optimistic!

Was there anything else announced or just what was already planned?

I think it was just confirming that what was already planned is actually going ahead.

This is the timeline they're aiming for. Apparently.

373,423 new vaccinations registered in 🇬🇧 yesterday

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 85,055 1st doses / 215,665 2nd doses
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 2,358 / 40,152
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 6,629 / 8,075
NI 5,630 / 9,859

So level 0 just at end of summer holidays...

www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-getting-tested/pages/no-covid-symptoms/

About ordering lateral flow tests

@WouldBeGood

So level 0 just at end of summer holidays...

It's the beginning of the summer holidays-end of June?

@Pootle40 oh, thanks, I’d read it as late July, not late June

• 273 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 24,349 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 1.3% of these were positive
• 1 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 14 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 107 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 2,752,575 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 847,655 have received their second dose