A Walk at Weybourne

Today was all the W's. It started with putting some washing out. Then as sun was forecast from 8 to 10 I drove to Weybourne for a walk. As you can see from my photos, blue sky was around, but there were clouds above me and it was quite windy. Then I waited in for the delivery of a parcel with of all things Oatibix flakes cereal in - has anyone else noticed that supermarkets are running out of certain items? Later on I did some weeding in the garden. Then I watched  my blu-ray of Spitfire - fabulous aerial footage, a great documentary with great recollections from some of the fighter pilots and a lovely lady who flew hundreds of Spitfires as she flew them from the factory to the various airfields, all without any navigation aids or a radio. 

Day 486 / Day 60 of Step 3 of Roadmap Easing (for my record only)
48,553 new cases were recorded today, the highest for exactly 6 months. PHE reports infection rates at their highest across all regions since January, with the NE highest at 835.8 cases per 100k. Text messages are being sent out to 650,000 people to tell them to book their 2nd jab no more than 8 weeks after their 1st. In the week to 7/7, 520,194 alerts were sent to people in England via the NHS Covid-19 app to tell them they'd been in close contact with someone who'd tested positive and that they should self isolate - including my friend G and her husband M. The i newspaper is reporting that the proportion of in-person tests that are returned within 24 hours has fallen from 77% to 63% in one week. Home testing result return times are also rising. A Professor of Primary Care says a colleague was unable to book a PCR test in a Covid hotspot as her symptoms which a lot of people think are now common, did not include a continuous cough as the Govt website requires for eligibility. The WHO has told the Washington Post that it will fix several 'unintentional errors' in its joint report with China on the origins of the virus. The first family cluster of patients was not  linked to the seafood market in Wuhan, contrary to what was in the report. The WHO has urged China to be more transparent. Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and Asda are asking staff and customers to continue to wear a mask, but are not going to enforce it. Heathrow and some airlines are keeping masks as mandatory. Over 700 people that work at Nissan's plant in Sunderland are self-isolating.