Delay in today's numbers

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Unless I'm being really stupid, it doesn't look like the numbers have been updated for today, it still says 24th March

www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Not seen any reasons as to why they are delayed?

I wonder whether Prince Charles comes under England, Wales or Scotland's figures.

I've always said that the awareness and hand soap/sanitizer was bound to have a positive effect at some stage.

On a really simple level, if covid 19 is such a contagion, then how comes Camilla hasn't caught it off Charles?

Dept of Health and social care have just tweeted about something else... so why haven't they tweeted the official numbers?

Worldometer is not the official UK site for updates. Gov.uk is.

Worldometers saying 43 now so it looks like that is the official number so good news for today. Obviously RIP to the poor people lost.

Christ this thread has turned ghoulish.

It is very late for the info to have been released. It’s quite possible that Worldometers, the NHS and PHE don’t have someone waiting to tweet it, or update websites. Not great; but pretty common.

It’s unlikely that the released England figures, being shared by all major broadcasters and newspapers as well as MPs and journalists, don’t include London. It’s our capital and all.

There’s a difference between being interested in the data and wanting to see it from source, which we’d all prefer, and making up conspiracy theories on a forum... some scepticism is typically a good thing, fearmongering is not.

@Somerville ah right didn't know, it has always been pretty accurate from what I've seen.

An ICU nurse I know working in England has also said anyone admitted through a and e and straight to ICU isn't now being tested as they are pretty certain what it is.

The UK are not worried about numbers, they don't actually care how many people die of carona, they just want to save lives. So you will see our numbers be completely out of whack to the rest of the world. Testing is no longer important, treatment is, so the funding and the money is going toward treatment, and I agree with this. Why bother wasting millions on testing when it could be spent on super hospitals and ventilators. That's where the money is needed, not to know if Clive living in number 87 with a wheeze and a fever has it but is doing ok.

Yes I searched for it today too.

The numbers are starting to flatten. A critical element of all this is that the people who are dying have tested positive for coronavirus. They’re not necessarily dying only of corona.

Yes Worldometer has been updated if you scroll further down here are today's figures:

1452 new cases and 43 new deaths in the United Kingdom, including a 21-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man with no pre-existing health conditions

The deaths are lower than yesterday's figures which is great news. But 1452 new cases is not good but I think better than the projection.

Worldometer just pulls data from different sources. Click on the country name and you can see where it gets it from.

An ICU nurse I know working in England has also said anyone admitted through a and e and straight to ICU isn't now being tested as they are pretty certain what it is

Not true where I work or any of the others I know of.

@SeperatedSwans

Great post I agree - what IS the point of testing when you can use the money to save a life.

Also - you could get tested one day and be negative, and the next day have it.

Not true at my trust either

Although now we know by looking. It is very obvious.

Even getting better at spotting very subtle changes on early x-ray

Amazing how everyone and their uncle suddenly knows an ICU nurse.

Because you need to know to safeguard staff and prevent cross infection - pretty basic healthcare reasons.

The worldometers sources are bbc, sky and Public
Health Wales. Think I’ll wait for gov.uk to actually publish the data before I comment.

@Carrotcakeforbreakfast how can you tell?

Ah maybe she got it wrong then and not testing in a and e point of entry but once they are in ICU 🤔

UK implemented one very useful measure before the lockdown - people with fevers and new coughs were requested to self-isolate. This happened on March 12.

I personally know 4 people at my place of work (it's a big organisation employing thousands of people) who got "slightly sick" a few days after that. They all followed the guidance, self-isolated and got themselves tested privately. Their tests came back positive.

It sounds like all of my colleagues have mild cases and are now on the way to recovery. If they hadn't been self-isolating, I am sure many more people in our company would have now been infected. However, this did not seem to have happened (even though quite a few others got themselves tested as a pre-caution). I guess what I am trying to say is that, hopefully, today's numbers reflect some earlier measures taken 2 weeks ago. The lockdown is not the only measure meant to flatten the curve and reduce the spread.

Not true at my trust either. We are required to test every respiratory admission, ICU or not.

the numbers are better but not good that two people with no underlying conditions have now died

Ah maybe she got it wrong then and not testing in a and e point of entry but once they are in ICU

The ICU nurse got the procedure wrong?

*An ICU nurse I know working in England has also said anyone admitted through a and e and straight to ICU isn't now being tested as they are pretty certain what it is.

The UK are not worried about numbers, they don't actually care how many people die of carona, they just want to save lives. *

Look you have no idea what you are talking about. Testing is incredibly important to manage the epidemic, to understand how quickly the cases rise. If the UK government had the capacity to test it would have saved many many lives by isolating the positive cases that otherwise stock up on toilet paper in Waitrose and ”exercise” outside today, and who sent their kids to school last week. It’s thousands eventually of lives lost on each such test.