England, Step two opening

Monday 12th April, England

All shops can reopen

Hairdressers, beauty salons, other close-contact services can open

Restaurants and pubs, food and alcohol outdoors

Gyms, spas, zoos, theme parks, libraries, community centres

Members of the same household can take a holiday in England in self-contained accommodation

Up to 15 people can attend weddings and 30 can attend funerals

Children can attend any indoor children's activity

Care home visitors will increase to two per resident

Driving lessons can resume, with tests restarting 22 April.

UK

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

Cases, + 1,730 (+ 18,403)

Down 30.2%

Deaths + 7 (+ 251) = 127,087

Up 2.4%

Deaths, + 799 (7 days) = 149,968

Hospitalisations

Daily, + 221 = 2,862

Last 7 days, 1,606

Down 21%

Vaccinations

Saturday boosters, 475,230
Saturday primers, 111,109

Primer, 32,121,353 (61%)
Booster, 7,466,540

US VOVs.

Cases and deaths

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant-cases.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/09/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

VOC increases in Michigan, 1,503 in March to 7,226 last week

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/michigan/

B.1.1.7 variant has become the dominant strain, present in 50 states

P.1 (Brazil) variant second, largest number in Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida

Cape Cod, Brazilian connections

US Vaccinations

119,242,902 (35.9%)

72,630,892 (21.9%)

Brazil

P.1

P.2

Projected deaths

https://covid19.healthdata.org/brazil?view=total-deaths&tab=trend

President Jair Bolsonaro

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56663217

just a little flu

stop whining

Said he wouldn't get vaccinated
Dismissed opportunities to purchase millions of vaccine doses

Chinese vaccines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-vaccine-efficacy-not-high-gao/2021/04/11/dafe3ab6-9a8f-11eb-8f0a-3384cf4fb399_story.html

Chinese Center ..