And so it goes on ... a failure in Test and Trace.

Official guidance has been updated to advise against all but essential travel in Bedford, Blackburn and Darwen, Bolton, Burnley, Kirklees, Leicester, Hounslow, and North Tyneside, where the Indian variant is growing fastest.

This is where Test, Track, Trace and Isolate (TTTI) should be working to suppress any new outbreaks and especially those of new variants. I do understand that have been affected by the errors in sending out the information from the centre for three weeks to some areas but these are all in areas where, to get people to isolate, you will need to make it possible for them and their families not to starve.

As I have said on another thread, but it is equally relevant here, the issue, as I see it, is that we have to adapt from Lockdown Strategy to Suppression Strategy. We cannot just go from lockdown (at any level) to nothing or to something that isn't working at a high level. The government has, in my opinion, singularly failed to bring this up to scratch. As far as I can see this is the only way we can open up the country.

One of the things that has not been clarified (or I haven't seen it) is just how ill those who have only one dose can/will be from the (First found in India variant)FFIIV. With only 30% protection (apparently). We know a very large proportion of the elderly and people with the underlying illness have been vaccinated and should have better protection but what about the younger people who have only had one vaccine. Long Covid seems to be going to an ongoing challenge - will there be more because of this variant?

Again, it seems there is so much reliance on the vaccine and little attention to suppression by TTTI.

I've just found out that I live in an area where we aren't supposed to travel. I have seen that they want people to be tested twice a week. I saw the queues for tests on TV -no masks no social distanceing whatsoever. Am I going? NO!