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Editor of The Spectator, columnist for Daily Telegraph. Take a £3 trial subscription at https://t.co/7MjCzwnW9F

May 29, 2021, 9 tweets

After weeks of having lowest Covid in Europe the UK is now creeping up the league as reopening means more cases... data.spectator.co.uk

...UK now amongst the more liberal countries in Europe for retail...

...with signs of a big economic boom...

...and a surge in job vacancies, with ads now higher than pre-pandemic...

...big question is whether the (expected) rise in cases is a threat to NHS. Bolton has highest Covid in UK but the virus there is rising amongst the young (esp children)...

...big difference is vaccine success....

...which means huge antibody rates amongst the at-risk groups...

So all eyes on Covid hospitalisation at Bolton, the epicentre. Below from 25 May: still far below peak...

But overall, hospital rates after reopening (in black) running below even the best-case scenario released by Sage. This may change, but so far reopening going as well as could be expected.

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