13-17 year olds now have the highest infection rates in NL while rates are falling in all other age groups
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Yes it was a fluke. Everybody was supposed to get two full doses.
And I wonder where they are getting infected..
The website is crashing 
What time are the tiers going to be announced?
They are technical difficulties.
So no fans in Manchester.
London in tier two. What a shock!!
Of course a government website crashes because they've used a needlessly complex postcode search rather than a list.
Wanted to punch Iain Duncan Smith's smug face on Sky News. Basically said it was all about the economy.
Where I live is in Tier 2.
I’m tier 3
The sad thing is, even though it's so obvious what they are doing they'll get away with it again and again. Every other area of England takes the full force of the economic hit, and London gets the noose loosened whilst we're told to do it for the safety of everyone.
Where you at?
North East
I know Carlisle is quite high, so just hoping our council don't plead for us to to into the top tier even though we are miles away from them. Why is it so problematic in the North East?
how the hell are we in tier 3 in Manchester when the R rate for North West is the best in the country?
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/full-list-of-local-restriction-tiers-by-area#tier-3-very-high-alert
Tier 1: Medium alert
South East
North West
North East
South East
- Isle of Wight
- Cornwall
- Isles of Scilly
North West
- Cumbria
- Liverpool City Region
- Warrington and Cheshire
- York
- North Yorkshire
- Worcestershire
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
- Rutland
- Northamptonshire
- Suffolk
- Hertfordshire
- Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough
- Norfolk
- Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea
- Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
- all 32 boroughs plus the City of London
- East Sussex
- West Sussex
- Brighton and Hove
- Surrey
- Reading
- Wokingham
- Bracknell Forest
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- West Berkshire
- Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton
- Buckinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Dorset
- Bournemouth
- Christchurch
- Poole
- Gloucestershire
- Wiltshire and Swindon
- Devon
North East
- Tees Valley Combined Authority:
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Darlington
- North East Combined Authority:
- Sunderland
- South Tyneside
- Gateshead
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- County Durham
- Northumberland
- Greater Manchester
- Lancashire
- Blackpool
- Blackburn with Darwen
- The Humber
- West Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
- Birmingham and Black Country
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
- Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
- Derby and Derbyshire
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
- Leicester and Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert)
- Kent and Medway
- Bristol
- South Gloucestershire
- North Somerset
Tier 3 until Covid takes its Xmas break then back to Tier 3... with cases seemingly levelling off surely it would make more sense to continue the lockdown for a couple more weeks & then relax slightly. Either way, the Xmas guidance isn’t something I agree with.
Is there justification for London to be in tier 3?
personally I think this drive towards allowing so many people to mix at Christmas is a massive mistake.
really do not see the big deal in having a small Christmas for one year. This 5 day mixing, will get out of control and be the most damaging period of the entire year.
Yep, how many people are going to disregard the 3 family rule and being 6 or 7 families together just for the sake of it.. there won't be any enforcement around Christmas too, so I'm sure there'll be loads taking advantage.
You know why...
it will be carnage. It’s frankly going to be a free for all, and that’s how many people will see it. It’s basically being let out of prison for 5 days and you can go and do what you want.
and yes there won’t be any enforcement, which to a large extent I agree with, unless people are having large scale gatherings/ parties.last thing we need is the police breaking up people’s Xmas dinner!
@Pexbo Tier 3 assemble!
We all should have moved to the Isle of Wight.
Yeah boy, Tier 3 
Pretty much no change then if you're in Tier 3 from next week?
No.
Visiting family? Nah get fecked.
Watching a sporting event? Sure, bring 999 of your mates.
Pretty nice of covid to not make its way into such venues.
Because we have some of the fullest hospitals. The R number is only part of it sadly.
Exactly, absolute bullshit. Nobody is going to pay attention now due to it being one rule for London and another for everywhere else.
I’m in the tier 3 club. Time for a revolution.
It's a piss take at this point. Special pleading bs in regards to London. "we're tier 2 because we're London" kind of argument.
I’m in tier 1 in Cornwall and have been for the past month
Traitor.
So in Bath, 2000 people can come and watch the rugby, even though 10 miles away Bristol is in tier 3.
Latest ONS stats here
It also has a handy tool for finding out your local positivity rate. Here's the overview that shows the concentration of cases is most acute in the North West:
Basically even though the positivity rate is falling in the North West, it's still at the second highest positivity rate after Humberside - which is also tier 3. If you interact with that map it also indicates that the hardest hit areas in the country are, specifically, Blackburn (3.6) and
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