Yes, number of new cases is dropping nicely, however, wasn’t expecting to see such a big number re deaths. 

Yeah i mentioned yesterday that the figure for yesterday didnt include Northern Ireland whereas the figure for the previous did so gave a misleadingly large drop.

I make today's figure 10,025 and yesterday's 10,087.

Daily slides

Social distancing 

Testing and new cases

Hospital data

People in hospital

All settings deaths with rolling 7-day average

Of course HMG spun it and instead said it was a drop of 11% since last week

You can keep your bullsh1t to yourself and try and make a reasonable point instead.

10 dicks away? That'd be very hard in Westminster. 

Ahem! 
"You can keep your bullsh1t to yourself and try and make a reasonable point instead". Don't practice......

Bad company corrupts my sense of humour.

Self employed income support payment arrived today

A few hours later I got an email saying it'd be in my account with 3 days ......  

Perhaps they will send you two payments!

And George Useless wants you to pick veg while you enjoy your money

Actually hospital admissions went down a bit, but their attempts at manipulation yesterday backfired today. Some intern is going to get a bollocking from Cummings

 

 

Environment Secretary George Eustice said he 'doesn't accept the caricature that we took an approach that was wrong' on care homes

He added that 'very early on in this epidemic' there was protocols and guidance in place for the sector

More here: https://t.co/FCVM5BPmfJ pic.twitter.com/WIlSsHQjOq

— ITV News (@itvnews) May 19, 2020

Apparently the press were all over the ministers and scientists today and they were floundering.

Where is Boris. To not appear on over a week I think is disgraceful. It appears that it Cummings is actually running the country. 

Boris is bored of being PM already.

If VE Day parties had caused an uptick in the number of cases, or a levelling off, then we might expect to see that about now?

See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52715571.

I am amazed that people are surprised that the Government are blaming the Scientists. I remember posting a long time back that I'd noticed " we're taking the advice of our Scientists" was being used at every opportunity by every different spokesperson with unhealthy repetition. This is the usual Cummings based tactic as with "Get Brexit Done" to hammer a message into the psyche of the plebs. I realised then that it was just the pre-planning for laying the blame at their door if it all went wrong and it looks like it has proved to be the case.

Regional data for new cases today in England

The 7 English regions 

• London +42 (0.2%) 26,529
• Midlands +181 (0.7%) 24,431
• North West +151 (0.6%) 23,937
• North East and Yorkshire +175 (0.8%) 23,001
• South East +86 (0.4%) 20,414
• East of England +44 (0.3%) 13,173
• South West +25 (0.3%) 7,340

The 10 local areas with the highest cases

1. Kent +32 (0.7%) 4,507
2. Lancashire +27 (0.8%) 3,378
3. Birmingham +16 (0.5%) 3,319
4. Hampshire +15 (0.5%) 3,183
5. Essex +7 (0.2%) 3,091
6. Surrey +13 (0.5%) 2,832
7. Hertfordshire +7 (0.3%) 2,768
8. Sheffield +9 (0.4%) 2,486
9. Cumbria +3 (0.1%) 2,148
10. Staffordshire +15 (0.7%) 2,105

The 10 local areas with the lowest cases

1. Rutland 32 - No change
2. North East Lincolnshire 148 - No change
3. Isle of Wight 178 - No change
4. Torbay 221 - No change
5. Bath and North East Somerset +2 (0.9%) 230
6. Bracknell Forest +1 (0.4%) 237
7. Windsor and Maidenhead -1 ( 279) One case removed 
8. Calderdale +2 (0.7%) 285
9. Hartlepool +9 (3.0%) 304
10. Portsmouth 312 - No change

Gordon Brown may have been a control freak as PM but he was competent, measured and good with detail. Our current 'Prime Minister' is none of those things. He is insouciant, reckless, devoid of morals, devoid of empathy, easily bored and unable to concentrate for more than 60 seconds unless he is looking at somebody else's wife. It is why we have getting on for 60,000 dead

I'm thinking the same, I'll be looking at the new case number closely over the coming days. Like John says it might be too soon now but later this week and early next week after the weekend lag will be the days to watch, in my opinion.

edit: just seen ozone's link 

Ontario schools to remain shut until after summer here

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-coronavirus-ontario-may-19-school-year-update-1.5574966

I broadly support this. Not a lot of point re-opening for a few weeks in a set up where the kids would probably have just been learning how to wash their hands and stay away from their friends .

I would have considered moving the summer break forward a few weeks and then getting the teaching staff in early in summer to prepare before September but this may have not been practical. Hopefully when they restart in September it can at least be a little closer to "normal".

The failure of PHE

Not sure what to make of this other than good news if true.

Coronavirus deaths in Britain could stop by end of June, scientists say
Number of deaths on Monday was 545, down from 627 a week ago, and seven-day average is now 378

Deaths from coronavirus in Britain could stop by the end of June if current trends continue, scientists have said.

The number of deaths on Monday was 545, down from 627 a week ago, and the seven-day average is now 378. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that, on average, deaths are now falling at a rate of around 30 each day.

Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, said that there would be a sporadic rise and fall in deaths over the next four to six weeks but he would not expect to find coronavirus listed in the ONS death data by the end of June.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/19/coronavirus-deaths-britain-could-stop-end-june-scientists-say/