COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Healdplace]

Cases up too to 687 - though from 165,966 tests. Which is the highest number of tests in over a week.

 

[Healdplace]

Regional scoreboard shows where the new cases are from. And sadly it is the north west.

London + 56 (down from 68)

West Midlands 79 (up from 64)

Yorks and Humber 105 (down from 132 but now ten over 100 totals)

However, the North West managed to have 141 new cases (up from 80 and the most yet recorded under the new figures)

I am guessing this is why there are real concerns over East Lancashire becoming Leicester Mark 2

 

[Healdplace]

GM scoreboard shows this to be correct. Though there are other concerns.

Bolton 4 (down from 7, and 100 over the 15 days of new figures with 50 over the last week)

Bury 3 (down from 4, 33 over the 15 days and 13 in past week)

Manchester 17 (only been higher once two weeks ago and well up from yesterdays 4, city total goes over 3000 cases too, 169 in 15 days 79 in last week)

Oldham 7 (highest in week, 86 over the 15 days and 29 in past week)

Rochdale 19 (up from 11, second highest for any GM borough since new data started, Manchester had 21 two weeks ago, 164 in 15 days and 77 in last week)

Salford 4 (up from 3, 58 over the 15 days and 24 in past week)

Stockport 5 (highest in two weeks, 33 over the 15 days, 16 in past week)

Tameside 3 (up from 1, 44 over the 15 days and 16 in past week)

Wigan 2 (down from 3, 34 over the 15 days and 14 in the past week)

 

[Len Rum]

I14 all settings deaths. Way up on last Friday (which was just 48) and rather disappointing as nearly 100 of those are not in hospital.

Of course how many of them really did die of Covid?
A doctor on BBC news has just noted if you have ever had Covid then your death under current rules would be labelled as from Covid even if it happened years from now.
Which is clearly crackers.

Well at the moment there's an extra 12k (approx) of deaths where covid was on the death certificate but there was no test done.
Add that to the 45k government figure (deaths where there was a positive test ) and you have 57k deaths.
Even if you now found 10k deaths not due to covid previously recorded as such (and I doubt the figure will be this high) you would still have 47k covid deaths.
However much the government are going to 'adjust' these numbers, the figure is still horrendous.

 

[Healdplace]

Other data shows Leicester in lockdown adding 49 - that is 4 successive rises (from 31 to 49).

Bradford, that was on the watch list had 32 (down from 33)

Blackburn and Darwen - however - a huge rise from a run of 11, 13, 8 to 34. No wonder they imposed local measures. They are at risk.

 

[Healdplace]

By the way the big numbers for the NW today took the regional cases per population number to 602.1 - by far the worst in England.

By comparison South West England (lowest) is 230.6 , London is 386.1 and the next nearest to NW - the North East - which is recording very low new cases these days - is at 571.5.

The NE has actually added less new cases in the 15 days of the new data added all together than the NW added just today.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

There were a lot of us who saw this "Blame the scientists" coming a mile off.

I don't think anyone comes out of this well apart from the frontline workers. It seems pretty clear that a lot of blunders have been made at the top of Government......politicians.....advisers......and scientists. There is always a blame game but I think it is a structural problem in the way the country is operated. We are very old-fashioned and very slow to respond to events. The latest wheeze is to move the House of Lords to York. I would start by scrapping the House of Lords.

 

[grunge]

Well at the moment there's an extra 12k (approx) of deaths where covid was on the death certificate but there was no test done.

do you have links please?

 

[Healdplace]

The Beta data nationally is a little more encouraging.

The update on numbers in UK hospitals with Covid (on 15 July) shows a fall from 1865 day before to 1835. Though a smaller drop than was happening daily last week before it briefly went up then fell again.

 

[Healdplace]

ICU Ventilator beds in UK have also fallen again. The latest data is for yesterday:

Here in the run so far this week: - 191, 168. 159, 162, 145, 153 (as of 16 July)

Yesterday it fell to 142.

This is the lowest number it has been since they started recording the data on 2 April.

By some margin as in mid April it was at 3301.