412 new cases today !!

[granadagirl]

Yesterday it was 187(I think) today 412
Where are this deaths?
Do you know if anybody that as died from it?
As I don’t

It would be interesting to know

OP - you can see where cases are concentrated here coronavirus.data.gov.uk/#category=utlas&map=rate

Look at Total Number by Nation and then click the UTLA tab to see a 'league table' of cases. 'Rate' means cases per 100,000.

@Al1Langdownthecleghole and @NettleTea - I am so very sorry.

NettleTea I am so sorry.

My colleague conducted a funeral for his aunt. His Mum and cousins - her close family, could not attend.

He and some local friends and family were in the crematorium, but none of the staff, or undertakers. They just showed my colleague what to do, which buttons to press, for the curtains ...and so forth.

It is so alienating for people.

I am so sorry you lost your MIL.

Your wonderful roses and the way she stays in your hearts matters.

We had a death in our town a couple of days ago. Older chap but not overweight or unfit by any means. Very sad.

[quote Wheninrometoday]@NameChange84 why would a person who’s not european be more at risk when the majority of the world is “BANE” yet India, China, middle america, Africa.... don’t have huge death rates?

Could it be their lifestyle choices?[/quote]
The theory is that it is down to vitamin D. The ability of those with more melanin to produce VitD in countries at this latitude is much harder.

While one is too many the number of deaths is still in UK quite small.

Say 50000 out of a population of 50 million - that is 0.1% [or one in a thousand] and I have rounded the figures for simplicity

'flu in an average year kills 13000 to 17000

@granadagirl

I still do not not know anyone who has had it. No family, no friends, no colleagues. I am happy to report that.

The three day bank holiday weekend meant death recording did not take place for three days so backlog now. This happens every weekend and bank holiday. The seven day average is still falling.

I read a report earlier (before the official number including non-hospital deaths was released) that suggested 180+ deaths registered today happened between March and last week, so it's not a huge spike in one day.

Yes but that followed v low deaths over Sat, Sun and a Bank Holiday Monday.

They announce the deaths when they are registered - it's always low on a Sunday with a peak on a Tuesday to account for people's behaviour getting them registered.

Today it's just worse as it's the accumulated ones from the whole Bank Holiday weekend. If you averaged the whole lot out over 4 days the trend is still down.

@NettleTea & everyone who has lost loved ones sincere condolences 💐

Yes we have had four people die in our town

4 people on my estate have died of it. 3 men over 50 and a woman of 70. My friend and her husband have had it. My friend was really unwell for 5 weeks. She still hasn’t got her sense of smell back after 7 weeks. Her husband want anywhere near as poorly as she was. I am in West Yorkshire.

@Wheninrometoday

What “lifestyle” is it that BAME people (including myself...) live that you believe explains the higher death rate?

I’m interested to know how you think our lifestyle is different?

Has the rolling average gone down?

The real figure based on excess deaths is well over 50,000. We are the second worst in total numbers, maybe third after Brazil, and the very worst of all in the entire world per capita. And it is not declining. It has declined a bit and is now plateauing.

My cousin died on last week - under 50 and previously healthy (spent over 3 weeks on a ventilator so did contract it a while ago) - the only people who are able to attend his funeral are his wife, children, sisters (and their husbands) and his parents

A friend of DH's sisters both died near the beginning of the pandemic - in their sixties and I believe may have had health issues - I'd not met them DH had (their brother was also hospitalised but recovered)

Also had a few colleagues test positive (work in health care) but recovered - and two more off at present awaiting test results

Stop panic scaring OP, these are the figures after a long weekend, add the last 4 days together and divide them by 4, there is always a lag in reporting at weekends and it was also a bank holiday. Try dividing the number of new cases each day, by the number of tests carried out to get a more accurate figure of new cases. People being admitted to hospital are reducing and the number of people in ICU beds is reducing.

My MIL died of it in a care home in York a couple of weeks ago.

I'm very fortunate not to know of anybody - even friends of friends - who've had a confirmed case or died from this.

Yet I live in England's joint 'highest risk' area - consistently ranked number 1 with Middlesborough for risk (healthcare quality, life expectancy, no of cases), 14th in the list of infected areas per capita.

www.progressive-policy.net/publications/covid-19-local-area-risk-rating

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-tracker-how-many-cases-are-in-your-area-updated-daily-11956258

I live in London in one of the most affected boroughs and still only know one person who died of it (a woman in her 50s, died at home very early in the pandemic). I know of one other person (fof) an alcoholic male in his 50s.

My locality. People are dying each and every day. There’s a reason Wales is keeping the restrictions...

These figures are just the people tested.

There is always a spike after a weekend, which is more pronounced after a bank holiday. In the past few weeks the days after weekends have had 545, 627, 693 and 909 deaths. So, this shows a slow but continuing decline.

However, that the fact that the figures are decreasing in no way mitigates the sad truth that too many people are losing loved ones.

My friend’s nephew died yesterday, in his twenties. He was diagnosed with what should have been a very treatable form of cancer about 4 weeks ago, but caught covid in hospital...

What area are you in OP?