COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[jay_mcfc]

It’s confusing the way that is presented but the Guardian has tried to explain it if you look on their live UK blog. Today’s figures are for more than 24 hours and include some that were excluded from yesterday’s very low figures. Add the two together and divide by two. Tomorrow onwards will be back to straight 24 hour figures.

This is a 24hr period. This is from the official government department of health and in the thread it tells you it's from a 24hr period.

Edit: I would guess the 36hr period was from Tues when the deaths were 87.

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

What do we want? Road blocks.

It's happening already in Nth Yorkshire. People being stopped and details taken of why they are travelling. Not long before on the spot fines or reported for summons.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

The number of deaths is related to the number of current cases so the key figure is the number of new infections. They are continuing to fall so the number of deaths will also fall but slightly later.

the new infections were higher as per the Reuter’s article I posted half an hour or so back confirms

 

[jay_mcfc]

Big jump in France :(

375 deaths in one day.

 

[SB Blue]

I don’t disagree, but what is the alternative?
Introduce means testing on your socialising budget?

Sorry, I was making a general observation on the topic and probably shouldn’t have quoted you, have edited it. Think JohnMC made the point better than me a couple of posts later too.

 

[inchy14]

Brilliant.

He’s bang on. The fucking cretins.

Scumbags who turn it into a shithole every summer. Parklife and all the other festivals might be great money makers but they make it a misery and a dump for the rest of us.

 

[Akpowell]

The number of people who have died from coronavirus in the UK has increased by 113 to 578 in 24 hours.

The Department for Health and Social Care said it had changed the timescale for reporting its figures as of today, meaning the latest deaths were recorded between 5pm on 24 March and 5pm on 25 March.

At the end of Wednesday, the UK count had stood at 465.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had announced three deaths in Scotland earlier, with the number of positive COVID-19 tests in the country having also increased from 719 to 894 - a rise of 175 in a day

Public Health Wales said another six people had died and a further 113 people had been diagnosed with the disease, bringing the total number of confirmed cases there to 741.


Northern Ireland's Public Health Agency said another three people had died after testing positive with the illness there, adding that the total number of confirmed cases had reached 241 - a rise of 32

We are nowhere near the peak yet,they reckon in the next 2-4 it will hit us,the idiots from last weekend will have added to it

2-4 what days, weeks, months.

 

[kaz7]

2-4 what days, weeks, months.

Sorry,weeks

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

Bugger! I was hoping the 113 today was for more than 24 hours worth. :-(

They are. The explanation is totally confusing but they say in the series of tweets that yesterday’s figure was incomplete. Both the Gaurdian & the DOH are saying the same thing but very badly. Tomorrow will be back to 24 hour figures.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

He’s fucking right, though.

Not about Heaton Park being in Prestwich in Salford