The UK Government's handling of Covid remains a disaster.

If you want to know how badly they are doing there is now only one number you can trust.

Tests - No-one is taking them any more because you have to pay for them.

Hospital admissions - Not a reliable indicator because people are entering hospital with Covid, as well as because of Covid.

So that leaves Deaths. That would appear to be a reasonably reliable indicator.

When they removed remaining restrictions on 21 February the 7 day average of death due to Covid was 112.

It is now 279.

1,956 dead in the last 7 days.

Top work Boris and Sajid.