//...numbers infectted and numbers er dead.//
In what quantities, Peter?
The 7 day infection rate is 2,300. On Monday the daily figure was 1,100. The number of deaths over a seven day average is now around 34. Yesterday and the day before the figures were 13 and 7 (out of a rough daily figure of 1,700 deaths from all causes).
However, here's a more succinct answer to dave's question:
"Boris Johnson has warned that the reduction in coronavirus infections, hospitalisations and deaths 'has not been achieved' by the rollout of COVID vaccines. The prime minister, speaking the day after the latest easing of lockdown restrictions, instead said it was the national shutdown that had been 'overwhelmingly important' in driving down COVID rates.
So really, no excuse needed. The vaccination programme has not been responsible for the decline in all the important measures (despite one of the scientists saying last week that it had). So by that reasoning we can all look forward to Lockdown v94, coming soon to a High Street near you because national shutdowns are the only thing that will work. It's just a question of what comes first - the death toll from non-Covid conditions that are left untreated becoming unacceptably high (and nobody will care anyway because it seems, apparently, it's a price we have to pay) or the country running out of money and borrowing ability.