https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54270435
6000+ a day now
Personally not shrugging anything off. I just think quoting a number is pointless without context. Also there are areas of the UK with virtually nil cases.
And of course many who have it will not get tested because they don't know they have it/they have a mild version of it. No doubt all countries are undercounting
Getting back to the original post -'is it safe to travel to the UK'? It all depends.....
The numbers are worrying. My son is flying to Heathrow next week to start his year as a grad student at Oxford.
O.f c.o.u.r.s.e. 4,000 a day is an undercount as is 6,000 a day. I would hazard a guess (based on models) that the actual count in the UK now is between 20,000 and 60,000 infections per day.
And how many of those are dying? Well, in Sept so far that's 239 people.
In the same 23 day period another 46,000+ people in the UK have died of other causes (as they do every, 23 days, on avg.).
46,000 vs 239