🔴The UK's Covid data has significantly improved since the beginning of year.
📉Both cases and deaths have plunged over the past few weeks.
There are now on average just 17 Covid deaths each day across the UK
🇬🇧Local authority areas with a combined population of 45.6 million have not seen a single death in the past week.
➡️This accounts for more than two thirds of the UK
🔴 In England, just 1.2% of patients in ward beds have Covid-19 as of April 27th.
📉This is down from a peak of 35% recorded on January 18th at the height of the second wave
🏥Just three of the 144 hospital trusts currently have five percent or more patients with the virus.
Critical care wards have also seen a substantial decrease in pressures.
📉Just 7% of critical care patients have the virus, down from 70% at the start of the year
🇬🇧Several regions are beginning to see death-free days.
📌The East of England, one of the regions first hit by the new, more contagious strain of Covid-19 at the end of last year, saw three days in the two weeks up to April 24th without a single death
📚 On the morning of 9 March, 2019, Hilary Mantel finished writing The Mirror & the Light, the third volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy she had spent 15 years on
🏴 "I wanted to leave the reader feeling that it was a tragedy, but not a disaster. Cromwell changed England, and he probably did everything that he set out to do. So although he must have gone to his execution in great distress, I don’t think it would be with regret"
🏝️ "For all his undoubted intellectual abilities, Cummings has at times shown Celebrity Love Island levels of stupidity. There have been many mistakes but arguably his most elementary error of all has been picking a fight with Carrie Symonds"
❌ "Aside from his Domvotees, the general consensus in SW1 was that Cummings’s short-lived tenure at No 10 was pretty much an unmitigated disaster...He was about as suited to government as Jean-Claude Juncker is to dry January"
🔴 At least 44 people have been killed and a hundred injured after a stampede broke out at a religious bonfire festival in Israel telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/3…
🔴The stampede occurred during the annual celebrations of Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said he was praying for the victims following the "great tragedy"
🔴It was not immediately clear what caused the stampede, but some eyewitnesses said a group of attendees slipped on steps, which in turn caused more people to fall