There is no vaccine progress tonight, because the nature of the main cohort in progress just now, tied in with supply issues means there is no meaningful progress to report. Im betting some of you will be happy to hear that I wont make a progress report tomorrow either as Sundays figures are usually low as well, so tune in Tuesday for the weekly update!

And why i am positive and written before earlier replies on here!

I will say that the other night I jokingly mentioned it would be good to see week on week averages with figures in the 500-400-300-200-100s. This week though, we have seen the daily figures just like that, with 4x500s 1x400s and 2x300s. I have always said that low weekend figures are a tad unreliable, but since the peak, weekend figures have continued to mirror the weekly figures since the start of the year, and only now seem to be significantly down on the weekday figures around them. Will reduced daily infections continue, I certainly hope so!

Affshore asked the question a couple of weeks ago, related to tiers and the 7-day cases/100k, and I have mixed feelings about that just now. From memory when I looked at the figures to answer that, 17 Local Authorities were able to meet whatever Tier less than 75 cases/100k applied to. Since then, we have been down to 15 Local Authorities, and now we have 22. This to me is an indicator that this is the time to implement Tiers, and vaccine aside, is a far better position than when Tiers were introduced initially! Another good pointer in the cases/100k, Falkirk were the highest area at over 300, and although they are still the second highest at 122, Clackmannan are highest at half the above rate. On the downside, there are a few areas including Dundee that are fluctuating a bit, but nothing serious. The big negative and why I have mixed feelings, is the dominant strain being more transmissible, and we really should not take any big chances.