I’ll Wait!

I was driving down the narrow Beach Road in Weybourne when I spotted this tractor coming in my direction cutting the hedges. I waited where there was a tiny indent and it managed to squeeze past. A lovely sunny day for a walk on the cliffs, including watching hundreds of geese fly over. On the drive home up the hill, I came across a minor accident where both passing cars had destroyed wing mirrors - words were being said! 

Day 668 / Day 35 of Plan B (for my record only)
The Health Secretary announced today that from Monday a minimum of 5 full days must be spent in self isolation if testing positive, but if the person has and reports a negative LFT on Day 5 and the morning of day 6 they can leave their home. This is despite nearly a third of people still being infectious at the end of Day 5 - let’s hope they do the tests, do them properly, and don’t just hear ‘5 days’. Jonathan Van-Tam is to leave his role as Deputy CMO in March and return to the University of Nottingham where he’s been on secondment from. He’ll be missed as a good communicator of complex issues, often with an analogy. An antiviral trial is being extended to people over 50 and those with underlying health conditions over 18, they must sign up at panoramictrial.org if they test positive. NHS staff absences increased by 28% last week. A&E waiting times in Dec 21 were the worst on record with 38.8% of people at major A&Es waited over 4 hours to be seen (the target is 5%). The number of people on a hospital waiting list in England has reached 6m for the first time, with 1 in 20 of those waiting over a year. 44% of people in hospital with Covid in England on 11th Jan were not being treated primarily for Covid.