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BJ was questioned by a general public member yesterday regarding how many hospital admissions/deaths were of people already vaccinated. He said he didn't know exactly figures, but thought it would be very low.

The actual answer is that 32 out of a total of 74,705 patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 between September and March had had the vaccine 3 weeks or more before.
Considering the time frame given, most if not all of these will have had only one dose of vaccine.

Really excellent news.

I have recently bought a new phone and tablet and my favoured navigation bar has gone. I can't see a reason why they have changed, but much prefer the old one. Is there any way of retrieving this?

I attach photos from my old tablet and new tablet to show exactly what I am talking about.

Regards Margaret

There can be little doubt that this match is as suggested by LivingDNA. Either your grandparent, half sibling or uncle/aunt.

Depending upon this person's age in comparison to you, you might be able to work out which is the most likely.

Be very aware that this match may be nothing to do with your father, given that half sibling is a possibility.

Alternatively, given the relationships suggested, and the history you have given, this match could be his father, his sibling or even half sibling. Due to overlap of ranges in cMs, it will be very difficult to differentiate without contacting this person.

Have you tried this, or are you just waiting for your father's results to come back?

I do have a similar thing with mine and my 2 cousins matches, still not sorted out, as the match's father in this case is not willing to have a DNA test.

Due to the history given by our match, there can be little doubt that his father is half sibling to one of us, cousin to the other two. Will never be sorted out, until and unless his father has a test.

But I approached it from 'contact first, DNA testing later', rather than 'DNA test first, contact later'.

Regards Margaret

This is in beta mode at present, but has lots of useful and interesting information about current and cumulative case numbers in UK, also an interactive map. This can easily be changed for statistics in your local area.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases

My local area has had 1,328 cases in total, 5 in the last week, 0 for 2 days.

Regards Margaret

Yesterday Boris said that we would plan for the worst, but hope for the best.

His best case scenario was almost back to normal by November, and hopefully by Christmas.

I think that is what the papers have picked up on. Plenty of people have doubts about that, but we are allowed in each other's houses already. Christmas could work out ok, even with social distancing. Not quite the same, but then, nothing is.

Regards Margaret