BBCNEWS BBC News at Six August 17, 2021 17:24:00
Figures, what do you make of them? that figure of 170 daily reported deaths is the highest since the middle of march. we should remember, it is a very sad figure for families involved. it does reflect cases which were first reported in mid to latejuly, four weeks or so ago. back then the number of daily reported cases was above 40,000. it has come down between 20 and 30000 and seems to have settled there. so the big surge, new wave of infections some were predicting, just hasn't happened. the cases still remain higher than this time last year and a reminder that the virus is still out there an...