UK exit strategy: These charts explain why 12 year olds from Bath will be the first to be released from COVID-19 lockdown
The government will relax lockdown restrictions according to age and geography, Neil Ferguson revealed this morning on the BBC.
What does that look like?
Here at Furthr industries we have run our slide rule over the UK’s new cases and, based on the idea that we are tracking to Italy, predict lockdown measures could start to be released May 23rd. (It is worth noting that the city of Wuhan, where the COVID-19 outbreak began, lifted its lockdown seven weeks from its peak of new cases.)
Next we can take a look at how ages are affected by COVID-19 and see clearly which age groups would be released first.
Finally we can look at the geographic spread of cases across the UK.
What have we learned? If you are a twelve year old from Bath, it is likely restrictions on your movement will be lifted first. Good news for my twin daughters I guess.
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