In so far as managing the news amounts to managing the problem, as many politicians seem to believe, I suppose cutting down testing might be helpful. I then asked Bing to search on the term 'positive tests per million population' and he turned up lots of serious looking web sites offering a huge range of mostly well presented statistics, of which a sample of one follows.
Perhaps things in the UK are not so bad after all. So the good news that there is a huge amount of data out there. Employ enough statisticians and listen to what they have to say and you might come up with the right policies.
With the bonus that my old trade of population statistician must be doing very well just presently, along with various medical specialities, the people who build online shopping web-sites (which seem to be getting better by the hour) and the people who deliver parcels.
Reference 1: https://www.ft.com/content/801e3716-2c18-38a8-b443-d4c85193ae23. The source of the first graphic.
Reference 2: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-cases-covid-19. The source of the second graphic.
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