[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[LamieRobertson]

Despite “fears” around SA variants in London the rates of new cases dropped even further today on ZOË app - showing that we should be far less gloomy and vaccines are working - thanks for logging !

https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1382662449707503616?s=21

 

[Mellotron]

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Down down, deeper and down...

 

[Weststander]

https://twitter.com/coronavirusgoo1/status/1382324594498011137?s=21

People aged over 80 receiving a single dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca COVID vaccine show equivalent antibody responses five weeks post vaccination. However, stronger cellular (T cell) responses were seen in people who had received the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.

I’m pleased for you.

 

[Mellotron]

First sight of fans back at pro level English football is on Sunday - 4,000 at the FA Cup Semi final between Leicester and Soton.

A week later on 25th April the Carabao Cup Final (Man City v Spurs) will have 8,000 fans in attendance.

 

[dazzer6666]

...and they keep going down :

Infections - 2,672, rolling 7 day down 6.9%
Deaths - 30, rolling 7 day down 2.3%
Admissions - 201, rolling 7 day down 11.2%
Jabs - 117k 1st and 343k 2nd - cumulative 32.4m & 8.5m
In hospital - 2,393

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I’d class this has good news given the numbers involved

 

[LamieRobertson]

None testing positive in Adur for the last three days...only 14 in the whole of April

Make that 4 days

 

[Mellotron]

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[Gazwag]

How wonderful to watch the SE news last night and see Rother now has an infection rate of 1 in 100,000 - and as the population of Rother is pretty much 100,000 people that is 1 person.

 

[Mellotron]

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Everybody get down, singing 1, 2, 3, 4...

 

[LamieRobertson]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-exper...4/16/7c16d1b2-9b60-4c6f-b138-da64d98c4ca9.png



Dazz will be along with his usual excellent presentation later..when he’s back from the pub

 

[Weststander]

My parents, in their 80’s, had their second Pfizer jabs today.

Thank you to all Brighton Racecourse NHS staff and volunteers.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Mrs DCH is 46 and has just been invited to have her jab this weekend at the local surgery. Such great progress by all concerned.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Make that 4 days

Ok this is boring now ..five days in a row

 

[atomised]

Mrs DCH is 46 and has just been invited to have her jab this weekend at the local surgery. Such great progress by all concerned.

47. Had my first at Brighton centre today. Been bombarded by the surgery all day with texts to book my first in Eastbourne asap

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Israel had 34 new cases of covid today

 

[Gazwag]

Rother is at zero

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

https://twitter.com/DevanSinha/status/1383350574955958276?s=20

More real life evidence of vaccine working against SA Variants.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Good news today from ZOE app as we see another major fall in new cases 15% down to 1200 per day (last years summer low was ~850). Your risk of Covid now 1 in 2300 and 3-20 fold less if you have been vaccinated. Thanks for logging and providing the latest data !

https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1383391755228180486?s=21

 

[dazzer6666]

Numbers update, all continuing on the right path :

Infections - 2,206, rolling 7 day down 6.5%
Deaths - 35, rolling 7 day down 29.1% - 180 for the week)
Admissions - 179, rolling 7 day down 12.8%
Jabs - 119k 1st and 485k 2nd, cumulative 32.7m and 9.4m
In Hospital - 2,186