If you look at cumulative cases over time, the UK will be well ahead of many countries, because our daily cases have been around 500/million for months, while in other countries cases have been less than half ours for a long time, and action is being taken now as cases rise.
@BBCNews Hearing all the ‘parental controls’ comments and must assume my child is more intelligent as these parents seem not to have to check regularly due to their children learning a way around it. 🤷♀️
THREAD on what other countries are doing in terms of vaccinating 12-17 children... who's doing it and why?
TLDR: UK one one of the v few high income countries left that isn't 1/20
2/ Please follow health advice and take these sensible precautions to keep yourself and others safe:
💉 get vaccinated
😷 wear face coverings
🙌 wash hands & surfaces
🛑 keep a safe distance from others
☀️ stay outdoors as much as poss
💨 ventilate indoor spaces
🏴 Scotland Child Covid Cases 19th August 🏴
0-14 40,036 a rise of 452 ⬆️ (+92)
15-19 33,572 a rise of 552 ⬆️ (+143)
Total new Scottish child covid cases 1004 ⬆️ (+235) - 29.8% of total new Scottish Cases 3,367
⬆️⬇️=Up or down on yesterday
#coronavirus