What a Difference a Day Makes

So yesterday this was the hottest part of the country at 24C, and today it only reached 6.9C, the sea at Sheringham was quite choppy and there was a cold Northerly wind. I had an early appointment with the hygienist, such a weird experience keeping 2m apart and barely seeing another human being for 3 months under lockdown, then lying in a room with my mouth wide open and the hygienist looming over me! Then I visited Nationwide for the first time in a year. Later I got a delivery from John Lewis via DHL which should have arrived yesterday, and eventually turned up with a quarter of the box wide open - whilst JL is excellent in their shops, their internet offering is very poor. I'm so tired today - sudden temperature changes seem to wipe me out. 

Day 381 / Day 86 of Lockdown 3 / Day 25 of Step 1 of Roadmap Easing (for my record only)
UK deaths up 51 to 126,764 (revised basis), with 4,479 new cases, 3,957 patients in hospital, 547 on ventilation and 274 new admissions. 31.1m have now received their first dose of the vaccine and 4.5m have had their second dose. 40.8% of over 80s have now had both doses. Pfizer's on-going study of over 46k people shows its vaccine is still effective after 6 months, prevented 91% of cases, and it also is effective against the South African variant. Another study showed what whilst people in their 80s and 90s are producing antibodies, only 63% also produce T-cells to maintain those antibodies long term. Vaccine hesitancy in black communities has reduced by half per the ONS. The WHO says that the vaccination rollout in the EU is 'unacceptably' slow and is prolonging the pandemic. The ONS reports that 1.1m in the UK have self reported having long COVID, with 674k having symptoms that affected their daily lives and 196k saying their abiity to undertake everyday tasks is limited a lot - very concerning, particularly as it's highest in working aged women. 1 in 7 reported having long Covid after 12 weeks of having Covid. 150m are expected over 30 days at a Hindu festival in Haridwar - madness in a pandemic. A shocking report in the BMJ based on survey responses says that only 18% of people get a Covid test if they have symptoms and only 43% of those with symptoms adhered to self-isolation rules. Unbelievably, only half of people surveyed even knew what the main Covid symptoms were (they include a cough, high temperature, and loss/change in taste or smell) - so that's £37bn well spent on T&T!!!!!