UK infections highest ever in the pandemic so far.

New Zealand

Stop vaccine passes and vaccine mandates for some of the workforce, early April

Stopping gathering limits in outdoor settings

Requirements to use the Covid-19 tracer app when entering businesses.

Michael Plank, Te Pūnaha Matatini and University of Canterbury

Vaccines are still hugely effective at preventing severe illness,

but less effective at stopping people catching and spreading the virus

At the same time, we now have increasing levels of infection-acquired immunity in the population.

This means that allowing unvaccinated people into places like cafes and bars doesn’t substantially alter the risk of catching Covid there

At least as many people will be infected on the way down the mountain as on the way up,

and pressure on our healthcare system is likely to remain high.

Keeping mask rules is crucial to limit transmission

China

Cases, + 4,770

HTTPS://WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM/WO....RLD/2022/MAR/22/CHIN

City of Shenyang, (9 million people)

Cases, + 47

All housing compounds under ‘closed management’

Local lockdowns, mass testing and citywide closures

Dozens of officials have been punished or sacked for virus control failures

Only around half of Chinese aged over 80 have been double-vaccinated

Zoe data

https://covid.joinzoe.com/data


UK official data

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk


ONS

HTTPS://WWW.ONS.GOV.UK/PEOPLEP....OPULATIONANDCOMMUNIT

Prevalence

4.87% in England (1 in 20 people)

4.13% in Wales (1 in 25 people)

7.12% in Northern Ireland (1 in 14 people)

7.15% in Scotland (1 in 14 people)