No one has mentioned Birminghan, is that city in the lowest tier then?

Following the announcement of Boris Johnson's Three Tier lockdown system, Birmingham has been categorised as Tier 2

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/b...rently-tier-2/

Apparently there is a confirmed case involving a child in the infant school,don't know the history but one wonders where it came from.

Hi

Cases can be very localised.

If you look at the maps, which unfortunately the Government are now changing, I am in an area with 50 to 100 new cases over the last week.

Drill down and we have had less than 9 in my locality.

Easy to avoid.

"Recorded cases" are the tip of the iceberg - ONS estimates of "positive cases" are 50% more than the governments figures but then 80% of people infected display no symptoms and may never be tested. ONS estimates suggest that between 1 in 100 and 1 in 200 people have or have had COVID-19. That makes contacts rather hard to avoid.

The proportion of patients admitted to critical care who die fell by almost a quarter from the peak and as much as half in hospitals overall. A better understanding of the disease has allowed doctors to treat patients better, including using the steroid dexamethasone and less invasive types of ventilation.

On average, 39% of patients admitted to critical care died between the start of the pandemic and the end of August and this appears to have fallen to just under 12%.

The Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Dr Alison Pittard cautioned this was most likely to be a product of the fact that not enough time has passed to work out the outcomes of patients admitted to hospital since the beginning of September. Many will remain in intensive care and until a patient is either discharged or dies, they do not appear in the data.

Though it is too soon to know what mortality will look like in the second wave, we do know that mortality was higher at the beginning of the first wave than it was at the end, she said.