Fatalities...

The daily press briefing is our new teatime ritual, when a member of the cabinet is wheeled out to offer sanctimonious advice and to announce the statistics for positive tests, hospitalisations and deaths. It was a solemn moment, on Saturday, when the number of UK deaths from CV passed 20,000. And yet these numbers are exceptional only for the fact that all these people died from a virus whose existence was unknown until late last year. To put this figure into perspective, around 600,000 people die in the UK every year..

Licensed today: Rick Stein's restaurant in Winchester...