Worried about coronavirus part 11

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updated data on this page every day at 2pm until further notice.
www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public#number-of-cases

It's not just like flu www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/yes-it-is-worse-than-the-flu-busting-the-coronavirus-myths

Why WHO not declaring a pandemic www.newscientist.com/article/2235342-covid-19-why-wont-the-who-officially-declare-a-coronavirus-pandemic/

Worldometer www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

BNO News bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/

Link to WHO report www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

The Lancet coronavirus hub - latest research and comment www.thelancet.com/coronavirus

JAMA coronavirus research centre jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert

Very sinister that they’re not longer stating the location of cases, and that they’re stopping the daily updates. Somethings being covered up....

They haven’t done this in any other country, I’m furious

Statement on Gov.uk just landed in my work mailbox. Anyone can sign up, I think

www.gov.uk/government/news/cmo-for-england-announces-32-new-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-4-march-2020

It is frustrating that we’ll only find out where the cases are once a week - perhaps they are expecting the numbers to jump greatly.

I don’t think they have said that they won’t be sharing the numbers, just the locations.

Someone told me earlier today that all this Corona is something to do with the Sonic Boom we had in beginning of December..
Something blew up somewhere and they might covering it up etc....
I know it sounds like sci-fi but ........

So how on earth can we make informed decisions if they won't say where?
This is all down to bloody cuts I bet

They are trying to manipulate this, you mark my words, why on earth would they wait a week to tell us each week when the numbers are jumping?
Absolutely disgusting. They at the very least need to inform those of us who are at risk or care for anyone at risk via our GP. It's absolutely abhorrent.

Another school and another GP surgery in Devon have shut today - making me wonder if the number has jumped from 2 down here.

I’ve looked on twitter and can’t see anything bout not sharing locations/numbers?

I imagine the daily mail will be tracking it and outing locations though...

in other countries they even say the exact are and age and if the person had undelying condition , here nothing..

We have a right to know so we can adjust our behaviour. So cases in my town I would avoid shops, pull kids out of school etc.

If there’s a huge cluster in London we have a right to know that so we can avoid London. I’m supposed to be travelling there on a tube on London to a concert. Now if there’s local spread and a cluster on London I’ll lose my money and not go. If cases are spread out I will.

What are they thinking? Surely at risk groups need to know if they just need to hunker down now.

Last sentence from that wiseup is "Regions will continue to be told as and when they have confirmed cases."

So, as long as each area reports it in local media, the national media can simply collate the info from there?

@User1775564212 it on the Department of Health and social cares twitter page.

Perhaps someone should start a Gov petition. I’m sure it would get a hell of a lot of traction.

Helen Branswell @helenbranswell
1. South Korea reported another +500 #Covid19 cases today & +4 deaths. They bring the counts there to 5328 cases & 32 deaths.
That outbreak is growing steadily. No flattening apparent.

^2. Some people were asking recently about demographic breakdown of the cases in Korea. They've started publishing some in their daily updates. Scroll to the bottom of the page. No deaths in anyone

Twitter - Department of Health and Social Care

As of today, due to the number of new cases, we will no longer be tweeting information on the location of each new case.

Instead, this information will be released centrally in a consolidated format online, once a week. We are working on this now and plan to share on Friday.

For once I want the media to do some digging!

Could be from testing at the hospitals and gps.
Also they may not want the press saying these are all ones from italy... Who have now spread to students maybe. All of which could have been prevented.
But if it were say Cheltenham where they could have called it off.

people have their head in the sands. govt definitely covering something up here. We won't be going anywhere non essential for as long as this is happening.

I feel like the british media aren’t going on about it quite as much as they were a week or two ago... maybe they’ve been told that to avoid panicking everyone? Could be just imagining that though...

This is what has been said about the new cases..

I'm guessing there is a cluster in London too, and it's not being announced to minimise effect on the economy/tourism etc.
See bojo, not informing leads to guessing, which can sometimes be worse than informed decisions...

@pedanticstyleguide Italian universities are closed in the northern hotspots. Likewise schools.
The news that all schools are closing until 15/3 has been retracted.

Pebble21, I am carrying a small unused hand sanitizer in my bag for just such moments.

I've decided I don't use public transport much now anyway, I have a teenager so am likely to get it , and I hope I'm young enough and daft enough for the effects to be non fatal!

I should add I don't plan to charge, ebay style.

*As of today, due to the number of new cases, we will no longer be tweeting information on the location of each new case.

Instead, this information will be released centrally in a consolidated format online, once a week. We are working on this now and plan to share on Friday.*

Maybe they just mean they won’t be tweeting it, but the info will be released elsewhere