"People have relaxed too much, now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this a continuing threat to us," Prof Van Tam said.
He added that hospital admissions and deaths were"at a very low level" in the UK and the rise in cases was most prominent among those aged between 17 and 21 - but the country risks following the trajectory of some EU countries. "Where case numbers rise initially in the younger parts of the population they do in turn filter through and start to give elevated rates of disease and hospital admissions in the older age groups, and we know that then becomes a serious public health problem," he said.
"The fact that 17 to 21-year-olds are not becoming ill means they are lucky, but they also forget because the disease is not severe for them that they are potent spreaders."will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday.
Good to hear Van Tam. Thought tories might have got rid of him when he spoke out in THAT daily broadcast.
In other news...
Keep going to the pubs though..🙄
With everything open it was bound to happen. Here comes the second wave everyone is going in about.
Why never any good news?
It all boils down to the lack of discipline. Follow instructions.
The 'virus' has not been proven to exist.Not isokayted, purified or been proven with a gold standard test! Gov can offer no proof it exists!Write to them yourself and ask!!!! PCR tests are causing false positives. All case numbers are incorrect. It's a joke,a scam and a HOAX!
Rise in COVID cases is only big news when the incompetent government is messing up a trade deal. Look over there folks, nothing to see here.
And were is the government? Not heard a peep in days but yet numbers are soaring BorisJohnson
It Could be there was this many at the start of it, as only people with symptoms got tested. & the rate going up because more & more people are getting tested now. Some have had the antibody test & come back they’ve had it & no symptoms.
How are the hospitalisations and deaths doing tho ? Are you going to do your bloody job and ask the government these questions ? You are complicit in this scam if you do not ask these questions.
It's really not. I am fine. All my friends and family are fine. Not concerned. Will we be concerned when the Flu hits next month conveniently?
Congrats. You earned your certificate of Covid bollox.
Tears of laughter. Complete shite and FakeNews from Van Tam and pushes by the BBC. More concerning that people will believe this shite.
The rise in CV19 is inevitable without the masses wearing masks in public and places where close mixing is normal. This Tory government are USELESS They can't work out the obvious because they are DISFUNCTIONAL. We now have CROWD INFECTION without face mask protection LAWS
🤣🤣🤣 No concerns here!
The average idiot like me, asks 'are the MPs back in parliament?' If they aren't, then something is still wrong and I won't be going to restaurants etc until it is safe to do so.
Broadcasting bollocks corporation. DefundTheBBC
Time to shut the door supermarkets are not helping the spread
Crikey, who could've predicted that?
It’s almost like they spent a month telling us to go to restaurants and offices and not enforcing masks in shops...
Its almost asif we were all rushed back to try bail the government out of the hole they're in
If u look at the size of the usa and how many times uk fits inside the usa And the numbers and how many been tested within usa Then look at the size of the uk and numbers been tested They doing pocket lockdows like Manchester Birmingham West Bromwich to stop the panic
Bring back the daily briefings, ending them was a stupid idea
panicdemic propaganda Are you going to tell him
And Raab was on Marr on Sunday saying people MUST as a MORAL DUTY go back to the office every day, even if they can work just as effectively if not more so from home, just because the govt can't innovate the economy and wants people to spend, spend, spend beyond their means.
The dear old beeb trying to Gaslight us all.
Apparently the hospitals will be full in a fortnight 🤔
Then why is the death toll remaining so low? It’s because more people are being tested and despite the MSM making out that it is deadly, 99.98% of the public will survive it. Gotta spread that fear though, right BBC? DefundTheBBC
I would be more concerned about the rise of fascism.
I can assure Professor Van Tam that I do not feel relaxed.
Funny, I read a post a couple of months ago saying September will be the 'second wave' and spurred on by the media? 🤔 Bang on form! ProjectFear
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No it’s not
I smell BS.
I went past a school in Thamesmead last week in the early morning. The kids were all lined up close together waiting to go in, but what mainly struck me were the mum's huddled in little groups chattering and laughing, no masks to be seen. Drop your kid of and go home!
Says the spokesman for the government desoerate to get everyone back on packed trains and into offices
IndiaWilloughby It is only if great concern if hospital admissions and deaths rise - they aren’t. We need to get back to normal and stop this peddling of doom.
We need to see and hear more from Professor Van Tam he’s by a long way better than his Senior because he’s been shown to see he has no party bias. It’s the public he protects.
And the second wave we have.
too many people are confined to one place and that is the problem. the virus has enough playground. can encapsulate and break out again. and many wouldn't even notice
and it may be because of it, for better or for worse. that the virus can spread particularly well. because too many people linger in one place. and there is not enough space. the virus can spread very well. and the virus has its fun.
More fear mongering 1) Evidence lockdowns are a conspiracy 2) Pictures worth a 1000 words
that shows once again how badly the government has failed. and that the youngsters don't adhere to any rules. is normal. you have to test yourself now. as for the adults. that is and results in unreason.
If you increase testing, you are bound to have a rise in cases but the bigger story here is out of those cases, how many are being admitted to hospitals NONE! STOP SCAREMONGERING BBC!!!!!!!
What a crazy crazy world when it's run by scientists who I'm beginning to think are a real health hazard. As long as healthy younger people are the main people infected and on the whole deaths are tiny so what? What about the millions who will die while the NHS sleeps?
If people break quarantine rules there are no repercussions, waste of time.
Definition of a 'case'. All a 'case' is is someone that tested positive for their body having naturally destroyed the virus without ever having symptoms coming on as should be the case for a normal healthy person and never able to get sick from that virus from then on.
Inshaallah it's going to be more, unless uk follow my life style.
It's ok, let everybody gets infected, we can't keep escaping.
I dont give a rat's arse.
Coronaphobia must be fading!
Susanstapleto20 I've been watching the Exeter University students move through town. There is a serious problem that needs dealing with. Now.
Oh please great concern ,,,van tam And bbc muppets mates with billy boy gates
Van tam can be the man and can get a tan whilst giving covid the ban with his friend dan the man hitting us like BAM cause he can and so can his nan who’s name is Ann I’m your biggest fan Han from jan big up van tam...yep there’s a random poem rhyme 🤣🤣
Hear this every day as else where there have been far less cases, specially only 2 deaths in 6 weeks, so why belive a no. as fare more people die of flu and hypothermia, but you don't see anyone shouting and balling about that with perfectic no.s as anyone can come up with no.s
Coronavirus? All of them? Some? Which one? Zero respect treating viewers like absolute morons, how many “coronaviruses” does the average dog have? No-one gives a toss do they?
Oh really? Insightful. Now, how about some inane garbage from the extraordinarily thick Jenny (Cheltenham races is just fine) Harries. Such an embarrassment of intellectual riches.
we know aout your Gates Money
Maybe he needs to properly explain why. This has moved from protecting NHS because old people were dying in care homes because they were thrown out of hospitals!!!! Go figure. Now it seems to be count as many 'cases' as we can with no hospitalisation, wake up FFS.
Could you try to at least pretend to be journalists? Last week 9631 people died. 98.6% of them did NOT involve Covid-19. The NHS is all but closed. Perhaps the 2 are linked. What do you think? Perhaps worth investigating rather than ramping up fear based on irrelevant ‘cases’
He also said or something very similar 'in 15 years of doing his job the debate about wearing masks had shown they had very little effect on reducing virus transmission'
It is a great concern. We’ve seen in France and Spain, more cases means more hospitalisations, more hospitalisations means more deaths. This is the result of almost 2 months of exponential spread, things are on the verge of escalating again just like back in March.
Just to d6 Lobgm5uuuj0ejg
unojen_wood WHOS DOING THE TESTING ? HOW ARE RATES GOING UP WHEN NO ONE CAN OBTAIN A TEST ?
How many Ill or in hospital?
It's high time ppl realised we are just going to have to learn to live with Covid. Treat it like Flu and stop this ridiculous blind panic.
But there isn't widespread testing available. I tried last week and the system was down; people have been trying all of today all over the UK and the system is down again.
Anyone not wearing a mask should get an £100 on the spot fine, no more excuses.
blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah.
Eat out to help virus out
IndiaWilloughby BS
I told you, UK is gonna welcome a second wave in October; 'I feel crazy from those UK people with no masks, they are damaging my shows' SimonCowell 😎
somewhat dishonest to use a 2month old picture from pub opening night in soho don't ya think?
Well if we go back into full lockdown i dont think furlough will be extended. Then people will be up in arms. Still if we do go in full lockdown it wont affect my neighbours they will still have parties & carry on as normal just like last time
Johnson needs to go around a few more hospitals, 'shaking the hands of everyone there. Um... you'll be glad to know' NZ PM: eyeroll
Jean Claude Van Tam
Running out of fear narrative to peddle. Test protocol returns high false +'s Testing non-symptomatic's is ridiculous Lockdowns do not work, and should never have been used Clinical outcomes are the only metrics that matter Not a Casedemic to justify nonscientific diktats
... ok but the deaths are still insignificant?
Oh stop it with the “great concern” what do you expect when you get loads of people to get tested with a dodgy test when there’s nothing wrong with them ffs! Are the hospitals bursting at the seams with these”cases?” NO!! Are we running out of mortuaries? NO! Come on! Wake up!
Stop pussyfooting around, non-compliance lock them up, lock them up; ban all parades, marches and demonstrations, use the army if necessary, close all churches, particularly the mosques; A HARD LINE, WILL SAVE LIVES, a soft line increases the spread.
Schools ordered to open, people being pushed back to the office....what would ever give them the idea it was ok to relax....oh, the government.
BorisJohnson
Yet no rise in hospital admissions or deaths.
DominicEffect
Get a grip and stop gibbering on about 'cases'. Earlier on the news you called them 'new infections', this is misinformation because they are not necessarily infections and they are almost certainly not 'new'. mariannaspring please investigate this fake news.
Van Tam did warn us 'don't tear the pants out of it' when lockdown measures were slowlt lifted....
Why “breaking”? It’s just news. And anyway we’ve all been concerned for over a week. Oh yes, it distracts from extended lockdowns in the left run Scotland and Wales. Now I get it.
The rate is even higher than we are being told as they keep running out of tests so demand higher than supply. This govt is a shambles. We are in for a seriously horrific 12 months Covid rising unemployment rising no deal Brexit. We need people action now.
Here we go
When young people are told that they are led susceptible to the virus, of course they are going to become complacent, it's natural human behaviour, the young need to be aware as carriers they can kill older members of their families & public...
From the man who told us masks don’t work
Good job theres all those Nightingale hospitals ready to take in new patients...oh hang on, no theres not, MattHancock closed them down.
Who cares? Government don’t care as long as economy is thriving to fill the pockets of the elite. Van Tam saying people have relaxed too much is an insult. Should be looking at how your mate Boris has handled this shambles.
More tests = More cases. Not hard to understand.
Further lockdowns throughout the country are also concerning. The economy is getting worse and mental illness is on the rise
Zero deaths today.
The number of new cases matters not! With a recovery rate in excess of 99.99%, the vast majority will have few, if any symptoms at all! This fear mongering bullshit must be stopped! Plandemic Agenda21 ID2020 Operationlockstep Quantumtattoo Coronavirus Covid19
More people will die Van Tam, if you propose another full on lockdown.
Covid tests ordered 2017?
And they’re quarantining people arriving into the U. K.!!!!! Felt safe in Spain.
Why? It’s not very deadly with a 99.98% survival rate. Most people don’t even have any symptoms. Stop being silly.
Those pesky kids again.
Stop taking chances! Be safe and wear them masks. 😷
That’s what happens when you don’t enforce restrictions, you fail to track and trace and you allow “Covid is a hoax” protests.
It’s gone up since people started to wear face masks!! So they don’t work!! Plus COVID is not as bad as these so called medical experts say. They continue to scare people.
Really...see Johnson
Kids have gone back to school, it’s just the normal yearly colds & sniffles starting up. The PCR test is unreliable- lots of people with symptoms which previously caused no worries getting tested & getting false positives. No increase in deaths or hospital admissions. FakeNews
Schools r open🤷🏻♀️
You'd so have to stop all import and export of goods to the eu via truck, an absolute lockdown, are we really ready for that?
No shit. Schools opening just at the right time, then? 🤡 Fucked it good and proper.
Life needs to go on.. but sadly not for all
We all know its bollix now. Stop it now people are laughing at you
Van Tam’s back 😊
So masks don’t work then! 😂😂😂😂😂😂🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
When there’s a person in the street shouting “bring out your dead” then that’s when it’s time to be concerned. Not when Van Tam says so.
Jean Claude Van Tam
What about hospital admissions rate? Death by Corvid rate? Lets hear the truth about them.
It’s cases!!!! Cases!!!!! Cases!!!!!! This is not deaths or hospitalisation. It’s Cases!!! Stop fucking fear mongering
It's not going to go away, that's obvious from the numbers, unless everybody is locked in their homes for a few months and all travel to the uk is banned indefinitely including migrates coming over the Channel and officials going abroad
+ 2948 +3 deaths 69 serious/critical unchanged in 4 days ... population 67,886,011 Get real
Come on then lock us down again thats what you said you'd do, but you won't will you?
Here comes the next lockdown predicted by the ones with brains months ago! Amazingly they predicted sept/early oct just as the winter flu season hits! 🤔 AMAZING! Seems masks,tests, and social distancing don’t really work after all
😂 bored of it now, why don’t u report on the 100,000 children that go missing in the uk each year. What’s happening to children?
My sister works at a school and looks after a vulnerable SEN child. Parents took him abroad to a country currently under quarantine restrictions. Less than one week later, spotted in Asda. People don't give a shit anymore.
This ... with thanks to the FatEmperor
Oh this guy loves to pedal the “we have to learn to live with this forever” line! I think if he had his way we would be social distancing forever - what a completely miserable article to bassically say we are fed for the forseable!
TEST 50 PEOPLE GET 50 CASES YOU FEAR MONGERING PRATS.
Can’t be that greater concern as the government are desperate to cram offices full to keep the local greggs and pret open...
stuff covid lets get on with our lives
We don't care, stop scare mongering the sheep. We need to get back to normal. Quick
I can't believe that this is a surprise. Was going to happen as soon as the pubs and holiday parks opened.
Errrr not made a decent film since Kick-boxer but ok
JVT is the one 'expert' I believe in. He had the balls to tell Cummings that the 'guidelines' apply to everyone and for that he has my respect and trust
All bollocks
The only concern would be if it became a rise in hospitalisation and deaths. Otherwise its irrelevent
Well, kids are gathering in the schools with no mask and no distancing. Share the virus and take it home with them.
How about you report on the massive amount of suicides since all this fear you are spreading? How about report on all the people that have died through their treatment being put on hold? Cancer? Etc!
Jean claude?
Why is shielding program not being restarted? Please Protect the vulnerable people from this disease before it’s to late BorisJohnson MattHancock
I wonder how much these so called experts are pocketing, with all this advice ,they are churning out.they don't seem to be in sync with one another ,with 1contradiction after another
Will youth play their part and keep others safe? Let’s see if millennials have been unfairly labelled...time will tell...come on Britain...let’s get this coronavirus nailed and make 2021 a great year...needs teamwork...MattHancock BorisJohnson
And utterly predictable, the moment pubs and schools reopened, and workers were told to crowd back onto trains and buses.
You CANNOT catch a virus! It comes from within as your body is cleansing itself of toxins, they are called exosomes and ARE NOT contagious. Bacteria, infectious, virus not!
Stop the fearmongering
They were encouraged to go out by EatOutToHelpOut
How many of this week's new cases will result in those infected being incapacitated and unable to work for months because of LongCovid? Our long_covid Facebook group has over 20,000 members, in urgent need of rehab, research and recognition.
99.9% survival rate. Change the record 🙄
Could be any of these.
Why is jean claude Van dammes scottish cousin being consulted on coronavirus?
Is it because we have been testing a lot in hotspots so this is shown in finding more cases?
stoptesting casedemic
No deaths no illness what’s the problem?
0.007%of those tested each day positive 348000 negative tests a day
mygibbo Could someone at the BBC pass that on to the PM and Cabinet next time you're all at a Spectator summer drinks party? Or sharing hedge fund tips?
Because of bellends, school runs no distancing, pubs and places no distancing, its not being enforced, if the police qent to my local they have a field day closing it down
Political correctness gone mad, why are you not giving us more details about the Birmingham attacker 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Get ready for lockdown 2 folks. Heavier fines, heavier police presence and further crippling of the economy/loss of jobs. Say a big warm welcome to relying on the government with UBI, a non existent NHS and a mandatory jab that’s had no testing. Are you ready?
Ban breathing
Doesn’t he get it that folks are fed up with being lectured at and just want to get on with their lives without the incessant moaning.
Any hospital admissions? ........ didn't think so. You're the worst kind of terrorists.
Scientists are warning that the main test used to diagnose COVID is so sensitive that it could pick up fragments of 'dead virus' from up to 70 days ago!! r4today
Oh tragedy. Someone sneezed and the whole country immediately became fooked again.
Strange how cases have gone up since the selfish decided to go abroad and the government bowed to pressure from the drinks industry and social distancing in pubs went out the window
Cases indicate herd immunity. Hospitalisations and deaths are a concern - but since lockdown the real crisis is in lack of care /treatment for what you might call 'staple' disease & illness. NHS is virtually shut. Meanwhile:e 1450 Hospitals 300 Hospitalised
Asymptomatic people do not spread. Anybody telling you different is lying.
night Stop the mixed messaging & make sure that people aren't going around saying it's over, all over the media an not social distancing either. Wear a face catering. Protect others & yourself by limiting spread. Indoor retail, improve your fresh air ventilation & dilute the virus. NOW
Here’s an idea; perhaps cease from solely focusing on case numbers and report actual deaths and hospital admission numbers. You seemed to enjoy doing that when there was actually something to report. It’s lazy journalism as all you do is blindly state positive test numbers.
We know, the Office told us back in April that a second wave was planned in time for Autumn, only this time, peoples wages won't be paid!
Wondered when this clown would raise his ugly head spouting shit Next on line will be witty.. They both loved it when preaching at 5 o'clock like the sermon on the mount. Give it a rest dude.
If you’re worried about this, you need to turn the news off and go outside. Honestly, anyone still buying into this needs to give their head a wobble.
love how govt-mandated sources are blaming public for cases that were only made known because of the increase sensitive tests. Seems as if the public are tired of listening to govt and media fear.
Please BBC...
Bill Gates funded conflict of interest DefundTheBBC
He's absolutely right. The government is in denial again. People are too impatient, understandably, to get back to normal but we need to chase down the virus much more than we are doing.
BBC loves coronavirus too much.
And yet deaths & hospitalisations have remained at minimal levels. Why are you NOT mentioning this?
Who’s Van Tam?
BBC a bit behind the rest of us as usual 🙄
Coronavirus is nothing to worry about. It’s just something we’ll need to get used to.
Van Tam sounds like a Scottish Van Damme
where , who , when ..rubbish ..
He’s back - great news for the truth!
Van who?
A concern for whom exactly?
People are more sick of virus restrictions than the virus itself. Normal life is now more important with the proviso that the most vulnerable are given special protection. Social, cultural, inter-personal and economic life is dying.
What, a rise in 'cases' brought about by highly sensitive PCR testing which can't diagnose infection? Cases ≠ Infection
This time we hand over the elderly as a sacrifice to the corona gods and things will go back to normal
It's a great concern that our government doesn't seem to want to do enough about it. Is herd immunity still the plan?
I know 🙄
it really isn’t
Weak enforcement applied to rules
Funny how cases have gone up since they started only putting politicians, rather than scientists like Van Tam, on our screens on a daily basis to update and advise
Incompetent Tories.
Premier League should be cancelled
Wish they were more worried about the rise in other things that are actually causing more deaths
But Densie Welch thinks its nothing.
Scamdemic. Stop reading these shit rag govt propaganda mouthpieces. Refuse the vaccine!