Saturday April 18th


Headlines

  • There have been 156,104 deaths worldwide
  • There are now 2,275,785 confirmed cases worldwide
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Quote of the day

’‘There is only one way we can exit ‘full’ lockdown and that is when we have a vaccine.’ Health Secretary for Patient Safety Nadine Dorries seemingly changing Government policy in a tweet

 UK Stats

DateDays since first deathWeekly comparison figures
18/04/202044
Deaths15,4644,843deaths in the past week
New deaths88831% of deaths in the past week
Death Rate*13.54798Average new deaths each day (over past 7 days)
Increase in deaths over previous day (%)4.3
Adjusted deaths17,095Adjusted figures include 10% that are excluded from hospital figures
Adjusted daily deaths982
Adjusted death rate14.97
Total tests carried out (persons)357,02374,649people tested in the past week
  in last 24 hours15,47212,489average of new tests (past 7 days)
How many less than Governments target84,528
  average per day since first death8,114
Negative (n/%)68-23% negative tests
Positive (n/%)2336% more positive tests
Percent population UK tested0.53%0.11of the population tested since last week
*Please note that the death rate cited here is the number of deaths amongst those who have tested positive in tests. It should not be inferred from this that this is the proportion of the population who are likely to die.

Trend

This chart only uses hospital deaths as reported by the Government. The final data point is 4 days, up to Saturday. All other points are 7 days to Tuesday. There may be a slight flattening of the curve, but as the trend line shows (the dotted blue line) the trend is still upward.

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