[Margaret Pilkington]

Here in the UK, the numbers of infections is down by 3.36%
Deaths from Covid(well, not from Covid per se, but within 28 days of a positive test) are down by 12.7%.
Hospital admissions have been flat for more than ten days.
This is just to add an element of perspective to the panic mongers prognostications.

Angelique Coetzee…..the doctor in South Africa who first noted this new variant says that it produces a mild illness and seems to be (from her clinical experience) affecting young men under 40 who have been vaccinated.
In some parts of SA the vaccination rate is in single figures….so these unvaccinated are affected in a more severe way…..but as noted in another post only 12 deaths so far.