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The youngest, they'll cost you most in the long run :-)))
As they say, the past is easier to predict than the future. One though does occur though; with five children, there are seven of us in this family.....err........who do I kill!
PS. Don’t mention 2017.
Thanks for the article.
Not unreasonable the debate, challenge between more or less lockdown intensifies. Can we open up more? That’s what people want but it forces the hand of tests, things that need to be in place to do it safely. Push and pull between the two groups. Three million or anywhere close is impossible without odx style tests, labs can’t manage or increase that much in size, too expensive, takes too long and must be self administered. Also very interesting links to cone between vaccine distribution and the odx antibody test to support.
I'm guessing you're one of these nutters who thinks Jezza the magic grandpa is the best PM we never had? Or maybe you think Captain Hindsight (aka Sir Kneeler Starmer) would do better? Not sure his 'magical' powers of hindsight are of much use when given actual power and asked to govern ;-))
PS. Morning all
If Boris;and Matt are now in charge; God help us!!!
But on Friday night a spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care played down the claims, saying: "These figures and timeline are wholly inaccurate and do not represent expectations or planning. We are investing significant resources into piloting new tests and vaccine development."
In April, Professor Julian Peto, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said up to 10 million people a day could be tested for Covid-19 if every laboratory in the country joined the effort. Weekly testing for every member of the UK population was the only way to save lives and the British economy, he said in a letter to the British Medical Journal.
A record 6,874 people tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, although the true figure was likely to be above 7,000 as it does not include cases in Scotland. The death toll rose by 34.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/25/ministers-will-do-whatever-takes-save-christmas/
Mr Johnson's ultimate aim (watch the Prime Minister talk about increasing testing in the video below) is for people to have access to "pregnancy-style" home testing kits that can return a result in 20 minutes and give a person a "freedom pass" to get on with their life if their result is negative.
One source said officials had inked in a target of at least 3.2?million tests a day by December – a 13-fold increase on the 245,363 people tested for coronavirus across the UK on Thursday. But another said a more likely timescale would be "early next year", adding that the department could not confirm the three?million tests figure.
Earlier this week, Mr Johnson had hinted at a vast increase in testing when he answered questions about the Government's coronavirus strategy, saying: "We will double our testing capacity by the end of October, to 500,000 tests a day, and we are already testing more people than any other country in Europe.
"Despite the massive increase in testing that we have seen, with a 10 per cent increase in capacity just in the past 10 days or so, we are seeing 64 per cent of people getting their results in 24 hours. I do want to get that up, as fast as possible, to 80 per cent."
An insider said the Health Secretary, Matt Han**** (watch him updating MPs on coronavirus in the video below), and Mr Johnson had both "realised in August that the civil service had lost control of this and they both got involved personally" to address issues with the system and speed up the turnaround of samples.
Meanwhile, ministers were said to be working on other ways to save Christmas if testing targets were not met.
They hoped a vaccine would be approved before Christmas so that as many over-65s as possible could be inoculated. It is understood the NHS website was being prepared for the possibility of offering vaccines to the over-80s from November 8.
Another option under consideration was to close schools early to allow a two-week voluntary quarantine for families wanting to gather in larger groups. With Christmas falling on a Friday this year, most schools will break up on Friday, December 18, meaning the end of term would have to be brought forward to December 11.
Government officials are even considering a two-week quarantine after Christmas, meaning a month-long Christmas break from December 11 to January 10.
At the moment, the "rule of six" means larger groups of people will not be able to spend Christmas together, and Mr Johnson made it clear that stricter rules could follow, with many advisers favouring a total ban on households mixing.
But on Friday night a spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care played down the claims, saying: "These figures and timeline are wholly inaccurate and do not represent expectations or planning. We are investing significant resources into piloting new tests and vaccine development."
Sources say plans for up to three million Covid tests a day and work on roll-out of vaccines from start of December are under way
Ministers are working on plans to save Christmas and are prepared to do "whatever it takes" to ensure that families are able to meet over the festive period, The Telegraph can disclose.
Multiple sources say plans for up to three million coronavirus tests a day are in progress, and work on the roll-out of vaccines from the beginning of December is under way.
If these measures are not in place in time, families may be able to isolate two weeks before Christmas to enable them to meet safely in groups larger than six. However, Department for Health sources urged a note of caution, saying nothing could be guaranteed at this stage.
Boris Johnson (seen urging the country to get through the winter together in the video below) has come under increasing pressure from his own party to find a way out of lockdown measures that began in March and are taking an increasingly grim toll on the economy.
It emerged on Friday that the national debt had topped £2?trillion for the first time, with Government borrowing £173.7?billion between April and August – more than the previous borrowing record for an entire year.
In an attempt to head off a rebellion by Tory MPs over the Government’s handling of the pandemic, Downing Street announced that Parliament would be given a vote on the "rule of six", meaning it could be abolished when the vote takes place on October 6.
But Tory rebels say they will continue to try to seize control of lockdown restrictions from ministers next week, insisting all new measures are debated and voted on in Parliament.
Writing in The Telegraph, Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, claimed the Government had got into the habit of "governing by decree".
He said: "The British people have shown remarkable willingness to make sacrifices where it can be shown to be beneficial. But this can't be done on the whim of a Government minister.
" People who are giving up their freedom, losing out on precious family holidays, seeing their livelihoods ruined, really have a right to expect that someone will be there to ask the difficult questions on their behalf: why is this being done? How long will this go on? When exactly will this end?
"If people are banned from seeing their grandchildren or saying goodbye to a dying friend, they deserve some answers."
With Christmas three months away, sources in the testing community have confirmed that the Government has developed plans to hit a target of more than three million tests a day by December.
Details of the Government plans show that its "Moonshot" programme, which aims to have 10 million people tested per day, is more advanced than previously thought.
Mr Johnson's ultimate aim (watch the Prime Minister talk about increasing testing in the video below) is for people to have access to "pregnancy-style"