As a lead indicator, this feels significant ahead of lockdown easing. It is not that there has been a great surge of Covid19 infections. But if the rate of decline has slowed or stopped, as Zoe indicates, that shows quite how hard it is to get prevalence down to trivial...
https://twitter.com/fact_covid/status/1361984567859625984
levels. Most official data shows infections, hospitalisations and deaths are all falling. But there are signs, I am told, that progress is slower in areas of deprivation, the areas where infections were also relatively higher last summer (such as Leicester, Bolton and
Blackburn). If these poorer areas are the ones that stay more locked down in coming months, while the rest of country returns to relative normal, that would be the opposite of “levelling up”. And the sense of unfairness would be increased since these are often areas with...
larger South Asian communities. So what the PM’s road-out-of lockdown paper says on Monday about measures to prevent a widening health and freedoms gap between rich and poor parts of the UK - if it says anything at all - will really matter.
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