[Margaret Pilkington]

That may be the criteria that they are using. Obviously the more they test the more they will find Cashy...and those in Blackburn were directed to get tests even if they were sympromless.

A lot of tests returned as positive in the US because the tests were contaminated(not that there has been any report of that here).

We have to get on with life...we have to go about our daily doings, not cower in a corner somewhere.
Given the chance I would be out and about right now.
For those who are fearful, then the answer is to shield themselves...get shopping delivered, don't go out...but if you can go to a gym, or to a pub...or to eat out then it makes no sense to be locked away on an age basis.(though it does look like the government is now doing a U turn on that possibility.