A Day In

What an awful day weather wise - rained all day and now it's getting quite windy. As you can tell, I'm well fed up with it as it's rained pretty much every day here since 23rd Sept! So I'm afraid you've got another jigsaw photo, I finished this one this morning and have started another one now. I've also done some sorting out, shredding, hoovering and received my Sainsbury's shop. 

The Labour Party has suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn for saying after the report into anti-Semitism was published today that the scale of the problem had been 'dramatically overstated'. The report found Labour reponsible for 'unlawful' harassment and discrimination when he was leader and Corbyn's office had 'politically interferred' in the complaints process. Good to see the people overwhelmingly rejected Labour under his leadership in the Dec election and the new leader taking prompt action - such behaviour has no place in this or any country. 

Day 228 / Day 16 of The 3 Tiers (for my record only)
UK deaths up 280 to 45,955 (revised basis), with a 23,065 rise in new daily cases, 10.308 patients in hospital and 957 in ventilator beds. Researchers from Imperial College say almost 100,000 a day in England are getting the virus, with 1 in 78 having the virus and the epidemic doubling every 9 days (not peer reviewed) - they say existing measures aren't working. Globally cases pass 45m, now steadily up 1m in 2 days. Daily cases in Germany are rising rapidly at 16,721 today.  Yesterday evening both Germany and France announced national lockdowns for 4 weeks. Given the speed of spread, I can't see England not going into a national lockdown in the next fortnight. 

West Yorkshire goes into Tier 3 from Monday. Lots of places move into Tier 2 from Sat incl Luton, Oxford, Derby & Dudley. Cyprus and Lithuania have been added to the UK quarantine list. It's been announced which tier of restrictions each area of Scotland is in, with Glasgow and Edinburgh in the 2nd highest (none in the top level). Sky News is reporting that care homes in Leeds now have more Covid cases than in the peak of the first wave (unclear how many are staff). Two 19 year old women each given a £10k fine for organising a house party in Canterbury. Organiser of a christening in Wolverhampton with 50 guests has been fined £10k, saying 'I don't believe in this virus'. Pizza Express to cut a further 1.300 jobs on top of the 1.110 already announced.