Bugger. Was being all complacent about my kids going back to school in Sept, then I checked the dashboard

[DebbieFiderer]

I hadn't seen the local dashboard before but have just taken a look after someone posted the link on another thread. My village and most of the borough has no casds, but there is one small local outbreak, of 6 cases, in one small area of the borough. It's the classic type of area that seems to be hardest hit - high BAME population (highest by far in the borough) and high levels of deprivation. It also happens to be where DD's secondary school is located 😥 I'm still not especially worried about the risk of catching it, the odds are still very low and we are all low risk, and I come into close contact with far more people at work than she will at school, but it does bring it home a bit.

@hedgehogger1 - the link takes you to the front page which is called "UK Summary" you need to click on "Cases" on the left hand side dashboard, and then scroll down to find the map.

Link to map
www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=47574f7a6e454dc6a42c5f6912ed7076

White could be 0,1 or 2 cases.
The actual weekly spreadsheet with cases by ward is also available for any real data geeks!

@NeverEnoughTea - when I tried your BBC link with my postcode, it came up with the number of cases in my Borough (in London). On the map it is much more detailed than that, there are at least a dozen, maybe more of local areas shown on this map in my Borough. And given my suspicion that they do not report if there are only one or two in each of these small local areas, then the figures given for my Borough at the BBC make sense. There were a couple of local areas showing three or four cases during the period the BBC is reporting, but not enough to make up the total they are giving. But if you scatter a few more in these small areas in ones and twos, the numbers add up.

Thanks for the map help :)

The map is also slightly more up to date than the bbc, the bbc is giving for the period of - 31 Jul-6 Aug, while this map is saying 1st August to 7th August, but a day shouldn't make a huge difference.

Not sure if this link will work but here is the detailed spreadsheet
c19downloads.azureedge.net/downloads/msoa_data/MSOAs_latest.xlsx

For the poster asking if 6 is high, in this case it is out of a population of 3,500, so that would give a rate of about 18 in 10,000, or 180 in 100,000, which is far higher than the areas which have gone in to local lockdown. Of course we are still talking very low numbers, in just one isolated week, and 6 people could easily be just one household, but yes, I think its good to be aware of.

My hometown has a population of 36, 746 and we have three cases currently according to the map. So is this considered a lot (sorry I know this is a hopelessly thick question but the numbers baffle me)

This is the link for the map took me a while to find it too
coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases
Can anyone tell me is this cases in the last 24 hours?

My town has a population of 120k. We have had 2 recorded cases since 25/7.

The previous 2 weeks had 4 cases over the period.

We are lucky that it's low, therefore community transmission is low, people still seem to be following guidance as a whole which should keep it low and any cases seem to be stopped in their tracks.

So I don't have concerns about too much risk in our local schools yet.

But what I have concern for is that it will cause a nations wide gap.
Our schools may be able to stay open whereby their counterparts in high case areas won't get the same standard of education.

Alongside the fact that if cases started to grow and community transmission increased there are no real safety measures in schools and that teachers and students will be at risk.

@ceeveebee Thanks for the spreadsheet. Where did you get it from?

It’s the source data for the map, if you click on the arrow it downloads it

Thanks @bimkom. Still getting my head around it as there are zero cases in any part of my borough or surrounding areas according to the map!

I've been keeping an eye on this, but I thought it was only updated once a week. However I now see that's not the case and it's more frequent. Quite worrying for me, my area hasn't had any cases for about six weeks and all of a sudden we have four cases in my village, and four in two neighbouring villages as well.

You can sign up on this site created by a Mumsnetter (!) ,@littleowl1, to receive daily updates on your local council area (and up to 4 others). She's just drawing together all the official sources of info:

www.covidmessenger.com/faq/

It's 3 or 4 days delayed because obviously it takes some time to get and report test results.