The start of the Governments Coronavirus briefing is always grim when they read out the deaths and infections over the previous 24 hours but i do wonder why, despite six weeks of lock-down, why over 6,000 people a day are still catching Coronavirus?
The Prime Minister is to announce a possible relaxing of the measures on Sunday although they have been keen to say it is a 'roadmap' and not what many are expecting, an end to it all.
Of course we are testing more, not the 100,000 a day the Government announced, but around 75% of that figure so more people are being diagnosed with the disease and the UK's lock-down hasn't been as severe as in other countries, we have been allowed to leave our homes for exercise unlike in Italy and Spain and many people have used this as cover to carry on as normal, we have all seen pictures of sunbathers and groups converging in parks.
Key workers, especially NHS and Care workers, are more exposed to the virus and a large number of the newly infected are from this demographic, mainly due to the woeful lack of proper PPE to wear while at work.
The lagtime between contracting the virus and symptoms showing is as much as 14 days and not everyone shows symptoms but are still infectious so the virus is still in circulation in communities despite lockdown, this much is becoming apparent in Care Homes and as the UK was one of the last places to go into lock-down, the Virus had free-reign to spread further before the restrictive measures came in.
There is no prefect way to prevent catching the virus, you could wash your hands every 20 minutes but if you touch a contaminated surface and then touch your face between washes, that's you caught, but with 6,000 new case and deaths sadly hovering around 600 per day, something isn't working right.
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