Covid Update on a Sunday afternoon

We are having a relaxing Sunday afternoon. I’m sitting in the back room beside Flora, who is using the vantage point of the back of the couch to watch birds flying around the trees in the garden. Ally, James and Cat are chatting while eating their lunch. Tom is wandering about going in and out of the cat flap. 

We are still deeply in lockdown and I think that this will go on for at least the whole of February. The number of deaths per day in the UK is much higher than during the first lockdown. In those days deaths per day were mostly under a thousand, which was bad enough. But now, although the number varies, it’s at least 1200 per day and recently has peaked at 1820 deaths on 20th January and 1725 deaths on 27th January. More than 106,000 people have died of Covid in the UK in the last 10 months.

However, there is much hope regarding the vaccines. Almost all people over 80 have now had the first of their two doses of vaccine, and so have a lot of the most vulnerable people. The over 70s are now receiving letters to get vaccinations over the next few weeks, and it will continue down through the age bands. If this works, the number of deaths should hopefully fall drastically. I hope so.