Tiering up the Covid elimination strategy

[dancemom]

Sadly the end was not as close as we thought so new thread required ....

467,238 new vaccinations in 🇬🇧 yesterday

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 217,157 1st doses / 176,158 2nd doses
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 19,912 / 19,737
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 3,033 / 19,863
NI 3,876 / 7,502

Yep! Time for freedom

*I know I always say that, so it seemed fitting 😃 I know people disagree.

But there seems no spike in hospital numbers nor deaths.

No, no spike and that's really encouraging. I'd imagine it'll travel upwards for a few more weeks though, if we're (hopefully) at the peak of this upswing. I'd like to think so anyway, with numbers better today and 20k more people double-jabbed every day.

There was a traffic jam into local vaccination centre today @SoMuchForSummerLove. A god sign

• 1,209 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 28,809 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 4.5% of these were positive
• 2 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive
• 3,611,266 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,555,308 have received their second dose

A teaching colleague of mine has tested positive for covid. That’s the first teacher in our school. I’ve not been contacted by test and protect but have been in their room although more than 2 metres away (I think). Going for a test to be on safe side. We were doing so well as hadn’t had a single case since the return in March and have fallen at the last hurdle 😞

It really feels like wildfire just now. Looking at the neighbourhood map of Fife and it's so different to even 2/3 weeks ago.

We need to stop counting “cases” now.

@LoopyGremlin

A teaching colleague of mine has tested positive for covid. That’s the first teacher in our school. I’ve not been contacted by test and protect but have been in their room although more than 2 metres away (I think). Going for a test to be on safe side. We were doing so well as hadn’t had a single case since the return in March and have fallen at the last hurdle 😞

Sorry to hear that. I hope they don't become too unwell.

Thanks @StarryEyeSurprise
They seem to be well at the moment. The NHS have confirmed that I am not a close contact thankfully although I have gone for a test just to be on safe side. I have heard of another couple of people I know testing positive today. Edinburgh seems rife with it at the moment after being fairly low only a few weeks ago 😞

How is your colleague @StarryEyeSurprise ?

That's good you're not a close contact @LoopyGremlin. Yes, the holidays are definitely needed. Most won't be fully vaccinated come August which is a bit of a worry.

She's doing a bit better, thanks Latissi. She was really weak and struggled holding a glass before but now she can. Still very breathless though and not really able to walk around. I guess it'll just take time.

@SoMuchForSummerLove

It really feels like wildfire just now. Looking at the neighbourhood map of Fife and it's so different to even 2/3 weeks ago.

You can also see the cases really are the

• 1,205 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 22,098 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 5.8% of these were positive
• 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends).
• 3,630,589 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,571,637 have received their second dose

Does anyone know how long before a positive test the contact tracers go back. I know of someone who got a positive result today after their test yesterday and trying to work out if my son may be considered a contact and asked to isolate.

It used to be 3 days from when they got their positive test result but I'm not sure that's current practice

@dancemom

It used to be 3 days from when they got their positive test result but I'm not sure that's current practice

Thank you.

My understanding was 48 hours before onset of symptoms, but a pupil who tested positive recently was asked for contacts from 5 days before! I don't know the exact details though.

• names and contact details of any people you were in close contact with in the 48 hours before your symptoms started (if you know these details)

From the NHS website

That was my understanding and reading too dancemom. Not sure why they asked about people so many days before my pupil.

Possibly attending school with symptoms?

Getting near the end of the thread ... any new title suggestions?

Delta tell me about it I'm in tiers!

😂 Or is it too soon for jokes about variants?

Phi-ting the Tiers

*greek alphabet geek joke 😳