Coronavirus thread 13

[KenAdams]

Previous thread here.

We are using Worldometer, BDO and Dr John Campbell videos as part of the discussions.

We had two people where I work with symptoms after returning from a high risk country. Neither have had test results yet (reported Monday) so the speed of testing is slow.

I think cases will go up over the weekend.

The bit about 8 being not travel related is on here: www.gov.uk/government/news/cmo-for-england-announces-25-new-cases-of-coronavirus-covid-19-5-march-2020

I can see it says south etc but where are the exact locations?

25 in London + 17 South East (who could be commuters into London). That’s seems worrying and would imagine will grow quickly there?

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@lemonjumper Thanks

17998 tests completed, 115 positive. Makes 0.64 percent positive of people deemed in need of testing. The worry is the unknown amount of positives in the untested population.

we have 1 here now in south yorks, rawmarsh nr rotherham to be precise it is. my home village and only a few miles from me now

I am south central slap in the middle between south east and south west. I think we would fall under south west for the figures and its worrying that is it 15. I know of the Devon cases but I dont know any others.

@user1471439240 creeping up from the 0.51% yesterday...

It is worth noting that although there are fewer cases today than yesterday, there were also fewer tests performed. There could be lots of reasons for that - from there being less people presenting with illness to... well, I don't know!

But yesterday approx 1.2% of new tests were positive, while today it has been 2.1%

Would be interesting to see the figures as a proportion of the population in the corresponding areas.

Quite scary I think, very uncertain on what's about to happen, but can't help but feel that, as they say in the movies, "this is not a drill!"

So - if you have all the COVID-19 symptoms, but haven't been to one of the travel hot spots or know someone who has, you won't get tested, is that right?

@peachgreen

Husband said to go and do the shopping last night instead of Friday and get some extra tinned goods. Never seen Aldi so quiet at 7pm....

Picture edited out by MNHQ at user's request

@Bercows this isn't my local medical centre but only down the road.

@Skyejuly

The precise locations will apparently be reported on a new webpage from tomorrow.

Wow - this is like a movie for you guys - real life drama. Why don’t you just put on Netflix and calm down

@cjt110 Is that food stored in your dishwasher? LOL.

Balls... didnt realise there were photos in my photo|! duly reported.

@CrunchyCarrot It might be soon enough if we have to bu any more! My drawers are FULL!

South east and London are my worry. That 17 will surely be the Herts and Essex clusters getting bigger, or new ones commuting in to London.

Can someone pls
Tell me what the 4:30pm bbc report will be shown on? Cannot see it on Tv Guide. Is it a bbc news website streaming thing? Thanks

The breakdown is nowhere near specific enough. London is about 600 square miles. Cases could be next door or 20 miles away. WHERE in London are those 25?!

I think more specific data will follow but I agree, I’d like to see it broken down to N/S/E/W London.

Am I interpreting it correctly that we are seeing more cases detected in the areas with the 100 GP practices doing community sampling?

I am in the North East - apparently we only have 10 but I suspect if we were sampling people with appropriate symptoms in the community we'd have more. I sort of wish that we did have a practice testing in the region ...