Originally Posted by
Witton Park
I didn't see the briefing, but how do they come to that figure? They are reporting circa 2000 a day, so of course there is some extrapolation involved as they don't test everyone that gets it, but there has to be a lot of guesswork and where are the "hotspots" because the whole of North West England is down to less than 100 confirmed cases every day now, with large areas reporting 0.
That's more than 10% of he UK population.
In March and April my facebook was full of people self-isolating, unconfirmed mostly. I haven't seen one this month.
Something doesn't add up.
