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STORY Sunderland infection rate drops slightly as tighter restrictions set to enforced throughout North East.

Marlene May Beckett:

We have only been on lockdown 10 hour’s most of which people were asleep so how has it supposedly fallen due to this.

Ryan Brown: This & next week 20,000 University students leave their bubbles and travel to Sunderland from all over the UK/World, no doubt socialising & then returning back home for holidays, hopefully covid isn’t as prevalent as flu & that they don’t accompany one another in the winter months

Lisa Green: This might have to do with the fact that no one can get a test! I work with the elderly and one of my clients and there family have all been told to self isolate as she had a temp linked to a water infection and they can’t get hold of a test so they all have to self isolate for 14 days x

Vivienne Young: What I hope is that a few weeks down the line they don’t put this fall down to the new measures. They have used out of date information to inform their decision!

Vicky Curry: Probably because the laboratories are overwhelmed and cannot keep up with all the tests and results have started to now take longer to come through.

Kirsty Dickson: Of course its gonna peak and trough just like any other infectious disease. Why are we still living in fear??

Helen Elliott: Of course it’s dropped .... people who didn’t have symptoms and didn’t need a test but got one tested negative .... and the people who have symptoms and will probably test positive can’t get one. Not a scientist like... just saying

Amy Mckie: So impose stricter rules and the same day cases are down

Alan Wharton: Wish i could win the lottery and just lock myself in the house with Just Eat and Dial A Drink on speed dial. Just been to ASDA Grangetown a few hours ago and loads of people there are still not wearing masks. We really are doomed......

Ryan Metcalf: It will fall when half the people cant get a test as there’s none left.