COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Healdplace]

Just added them up from the web site and London added 55 new cases (more than the last few days) and North West added 97. This number seems to be rising.

The gap between cases in London and North West has been falling steadily and is now only 874.

Not that long ago the gap was 2000. So I don't think there is much doubt North West is struggling a little to get on top of this. Think it is time government said so and woke a few people up before it is too late. Not overly optimistic they will.

 

[Eds]

Or maybe England has far more selfish bastards than the rest.

Correct. Said it before, people have pushed for a lockdown, quarantine from airlines, schools closed, social distancing etc and whenever it's introduced (forget whether the timing is right or not) people then push for a reversal. This country is currently fucked as there are too many selfish, ignorant twats in circulation.

 

[blueparrot]

It is clear England is the main driver of the pandemic now as the new cases total for Scotland Ireland and Wales I gave earlier were well under 100 in total. So most of the new cases have to be from England.

Though given the much higher population and connurbations it always was.

Not relatively it wasn’t at the time the UK were reporting 4000 cases a day the devolved parts were reporting 400 plus between them so 10 % ish which is what you should expect. It’s now far less than 10% the only difference was when it was 4000 the message on lockdown between England and the devolved nations diverged. Convinced if England had waited 3 more weeks like the other 3 nations did the whole UK would be in a far better place.
I don't think theres even an economic argument because I wouldn’t be surprised if the devolved countries are in a position to overtake England in lifting restrictions down the line. Especially N.Ireland.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Seems like a bit of an irresponsible thing for the WHO to have said without providing any data to back it up.

Quite
Where is the WHO scientific evidence?
For Asymptomatic cases?
For Presymptomatic cases?
What is the their definition of rare? 1 in 50, 1 in 100, 1 in 500 or 1 in 1000? The first two will spread the virus considerably?
There was more that enough evidence for face coverings from mid April. Yet WHO did nothing.
Where is the scientific evidence for this announcement?

 

[Healdplace]

New cases added today. Oldham added the most locally (7) with Manchester 4. Salford and Rochdale 3 each , and Stockport 2. Bury had 1 and Bolton zero. Blackpool reached the number of the beast 666 cases - with 4 more. At 478.1 they rate the highest in the north west.

 

[Healdplace]

6348 people in hospital in UK Down from 7600 a week ago, North West still trending down (slowly) on hospital admissions. On slides just shown in the briefing.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Slight uptick in new cases today.
Let's hope it's not the start of the Covidiot effect from the demos.

 

[blueparrot]

Slight uptick in new cases today.
Let's hope it's not the start of the Covidiot effect from the demos.

Too soon for the demos to show yet., Bet the hot weekend and bank holiday starting to show now If anything.

 

[Healdplace]

Slight uptick in new cases today.
Let's hope it's not the start of the Covidiot effect from the demos.

Its more than slight pro rata. Two or three days ago they did nearly twice as many tests as the 102,900 or so yesterday and only found a few extra cases. So almost the same number from half the tests is actually more concerning than it might look.

Hope someone asks t hem about that in the questions.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Or maybe England has far more selfish bastards than the rest.

Wales is by far the worst country in the UK for Covid19 so far. That said their ratio has dropped to about 75% of English cases over the last 3 weeks from aboutt 120% of English cases per head of population.