More than half of people in England living in areas with almost no new Covid cases
Posted at 5.20 pm UK time
Here’s a good test for the Government: Many areas across England have now gone months without enough Covid cases to justify the publication of their data – but will the Prime Minister honour his pledge of following "data not dates"?
Cartoon by Crid.
My guess is no. If anything, the fact that (only) one in seven areas saw a week-on-week rise of Covid infections between March 28th and April 4th could well be used by the Prime Minister to justify extending lockdown – or reintroducing “tiered” restrictions (that is, another national lockdown in all but name).
I report on this for Lockdown Sceptics here.
