BREAK: UK reports 1610 Covid deaths within the last 24 hours- that is people dying within 28 days of taking a test. That’s the largest number we’ve seen since the start of the pandemic.

Prof Andrew Hayward (on SAGE) tells @BBCPM that he thinks deaths won’t fall substantially for weeks yet, partly due the to the fact infections are falling amongst the old more slowly than amongst the young: “We have one of the worst coronavirus problems in the world right now.”

With over 90,000 official Covid deaths, roughly 1 in 720 in the UK have died of the in the pandemic. That figure will likely be an underestimate. We're almost certainly not at the peak of deaths either.

We keep looking ahead to hope of the vaccine but we need to look back too. Important questions to be answered about how we got here, about the decisions of the last months and how we reached such an enormous number of daily deaths.

Many of those questions relate to the timing of lockdown before and around Christmas. I outlined them in the thread below earlier this month. Though I may have missed it, I still haven’t seen these points addressed or satisfactorily answered. https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1347274149274791936