Coronavirus UK Daily Statistics

[Crewella]

More useful version of the UK daily summary?

https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/

 

["Misfit"]

More useful version of the UK daily summary?

https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/

 

[zouzounaki]

 

[Mitz]

China has the right idea. Just blanket tested another 9m people in 5 days. They already did 11m previously in a week, I think. Instead of being reactive we need to be proactive. Blanket test towns and cities. Anyone who tests positive isolates. If they refuse or break isolation rules - feck 'em - charge them with endangering life or attempted manslaughter. It's time to stop pussyfooting around.

 

[Mr Ripple]

Hope we're not still doubling every two weeks

Latest News
November 4 (GMT)
Updates

• 25,177 new cases and 492 new deaths in the United Kingdom [source]

 

[mick brown]

Who actually thinks this lockdown will be over in 4 weeks then ? So gullible [emoji6]

 

[Car147]

Who actually thinks this lockdown will be over in 4 weeks then ? So gullible [emoji6]

I doubt any lock down will be able to turn things around in that time scale... but maybe their hoping it will do enough to contain it, but it's not looking good anywhere ...

 

[Mr Ripple]

Who actually thinks this lockdown will be over in 4 weeks then ? So gullible [emoji6]

Not a chance.
The trouble is the case numbers come down a lot slower than they go up.
Even if the lockdown is enough to stop the figures going further upwards we are likely to be still experiencing a daily death figure of double the numbers reported today well into December.

 

[mick brown]

Not a chance.
The trouble is the case numbers come down a lot slower than they go up.
Even if the lockdown is enough to stop the figures going further upwards we are likely to be still experiencing a daily death figure of double the numbers reported today well into December.

I'll be very surprised if we come out of lockdown before the new year.
It also gripes me that you can't see 3 or 4 mates outside that you trust and know are being careful/vigilant but it's ok to go into a crowded shop, laundrette or whatever with total stranger's.

 

[Badboybez]

China has the right idea. Just blanket tested another 9m people in 5 days. They already did 11m previously in a week, I think. Instead of being reactive we need to be proactive. Blanket test towns and cities. Anyone who tests positive isolates. If they refuse or break isolation rules - feck 'em - charge them with endangering life or attempted manslaughter. It's time to stop pussyfooting around.

Hi mate,
Whilst in principle I wholeheartedly agree with what you are saying, there is a major flaw in this concept.

Liken a Covid test to a cars annual MOT test, all it proves is that at xxx time, on xxx day you did not have Covid. However within half an hour of leaving the test centre you may catch it on your way home, and from then on you have supposedly tested negative, but are infecting other people all the time.

Now this approach may have been effective if started in say Jan Feb this year, but with the situation now you would have to be able to test the entire population of the UK (circa 68 million) every two, or three days, that would mean 10 million tests a day just to test everyone weekly.
The ideal time to test people would be now, with the new 4 week lockdown in place, but to have everyone tested in four weeks would mean 2.5 million tests a day to complete, and what's our capacity at the moment, 200,000 and that has never been reached in practice.

So, as I say it is a good idea, but not achievable, even though the Chinese figure of testing an average of one million people a day sounds impressive the population of China is 1.4 billion, so when that is added to into the math's, they face the same problem in reality.