Wed 30Th Covid Review Schedule

[Maydup]

Health Minister tier reviews being announced at 3pm
Update about schools returning to school 4pm
Prime Minister press conference to the nation 5pm

[Maydup]

Schools returning the school? Students returning to school of course!

[Maydup]

The majority of us are in Tiers 3 or 4 now, as you'd expect no doubt.

[Maydup]

Full list of Tiers by area here.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/full-list-of-local-restriction-tiers-by-area

[bednobs]

i wonder why they had just england on the slide?

[Maydup]

Not sure why, it feels so devicive to concentrate on England alone.

[sunny-dave]

I think the local Parish Councils in Edinburgh and Cardiff decide tierage for themselves ...

[ichkeria]

England is in the slide lol

There’s no answer to that :-)

Presumably because it’s a separate jurisdiction for this

[Maydup]

It would be good to hear the PM summarise the current situation across the whole country regardless of the seperate decision making process.

Anyway, any surprises in the announcements?

[emmie]

for the time being i have stopped watching, i know we are in tier 4 and the restrictions are tight. But as to following them, going on other posts many are not..

[emmie]

PM 'confident' things will be better by 5 April
Cameron in Buckinghamshire, a member of the public, asks whether tier four restrictions could be in place until the spring.

Boris Johnson says the government wants to get areas out of tier four "as fast as we can" but the spread of the new variant "simply doesn’t give us the scope to do that".

[emmie]

that was from the BBC link....

[-SharonA-]

Is there a site to see how many have received the vaccine in any area??

[TonyV]

We will be on tier 4 tomorrow, but personally have locked down for most of the year. I cannot afford to infect Jen.

[emmie]

don't know sharon,

tony i know, its the best you can do.

[jno]

roll on Tier 5

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/tier-5-england-faces-possible-new-covid-restrictions-source-says

[emmie]

they can have as many tiers as like, people aren't necessarily going to abide by them -

[emmie]

from your link jno

However, an analysis of the spread of the new, highly transmissible coronavirus variant by experts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, released this month, warned that even if the whole of England were placed under tier 4 restrictions on Boxing Day until the end of January, the R value would not fall below 1.

[10ClarionSt]

Emmie @ 17.44:

/PM 'confident' things will be better by 5 April/

But he didn't say which April, did he?

[emmie]

merely copying the piece 10 cs, no he didn't by the way assume that he meant 2021 though, not hopeful at all

[ichkeria]

People are still talking about “controlling” the virus. I don’t think they really mean that.
It’s like a bizarre video game: by the time we achieve level 10 we’ll be encased in underground bunkers ...