WATCH LIVE: #Coronavirus press conference (22 January 2021)

Speakers:

⚫ Boris Johnson, Prime Minister
⚫ Prof Chris Whitty, Professor Chris Whitty
⚫ Sir Patrick Vallance, @ukScienceChief twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Covid tests used on ENG university students ahead of Christmas ‘only detected three per cent of cases’: The lateral flow tests (LFT) missed students with Covid & gave them a negative result
thetab.com/uk/2020/12/21/… via @midmaddo & The Tab

Today is a very important day on the routemap out of lockdown. Shielding is paused. Around 180k people can now follow the same rules as the rest of us. Please help them feel safe. More details here: gov.scot/publications/c… and a summary here: 👇🏼

Yeah - stay home if you can - remember to take your ‘regional’ list with you as well if you travel between countries in the UK or arrive at any of the spike lock down areas - important thing is you stay safe :)

What’s happing in Serbia?

We’re sailing on a ship of fools. If there’s one thing that astounds me more than anything else in this nightmare it’s the stupidity of people.

... and failure to adapt leads to extinction.

Did I miss something? Have we found an effective treatment or a working vaccine? I’ve not heard anything that changes the potential for many more unnecessary deaths and misery - what happened to following the science? Wake up people! Please.

Credit where it's due, PHE have now published full pillars 1+2 data for all English local authorities, going back to the start of the outbreak.

Available to download from the main UK government dashboard coronavirus.data.gov.uk/#category=nati…

Coronavirus UK: are Covid-19 cases rising or falling near you? theguardian.com/world/2020/jul…

Great news - keep up the social distancing - stay safe

I feel so sorry for the people in the USA - I thought our Govt has made a hash of our lockdown but this is worse - too many sad and unnecessary deaths

I’ve heard of companies that have furloughed employees have asked them back to work for cash in hand and they are not enforcing social distancing or other precautions-pure greed and opportunism spreading this killer virus!

Same thing happened here on the Clyde - we used to build ships but now we’re the most deprived area in Scotland !

Things get better with age. I'm approaching magnificent...

Guided by his employment more likely.

I’ll say again - bloody disgrace as we’ve no decent track and trace, no vaccine and treatments that are still under investigation at best - so so sad.