For those who rather lost track of infection rates over the August holidays, last night’s headline may have come as a nasty shock: on Wednesday, daily Covid deaths topped 200 and the number of coronavirus patients on ventilators surpassed 1,000 – both for the first time since March. But how worried should we really be? The good news is that this 200 figure sounds more alarming than it is: it was  inflated by delays in the reporting of deaths over the bank holiday. Daily deaths over the past week have been closer to 100. It’s worth noting too, that during a bad winter, flu deaths can hover around 300 to 400 a day.