Saturday April 25th



Headlines

  • Shoplifting is declining, according to Home Secretary Priti Patel this is the good news from the Covid-19 crisis
  • It has emerged that SAGE, the independent scientific advice group who the Government are hiding behind, had as a member Dominic Cummings the well known and influential scientist who in his spare time is a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister.
  • Dominic Cummings graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1994 with a degree in Ancient and Modern History, the ideal background to advise the Government on the worst public health crisis in living memory
  • The Guardian newspaper reports that the Government had a report the National Security Risk Assessment published in 2019 and co-authored by Sir Patrick Valence, who is being lined up to take the fall for its lack of implementation, predicted that a virus was highly likely and could be responsible for over 65,000 deaths in 3 waves.
 
DateDays since first death
25/04/202051
Deaths 
UK (Hospital deaths)20,319
UK deaths adjusted to include non-hospital deaths24,218
New hospital deaths (official)813
New deaths adjusted to include care homes969
Death Rate (hospital deaths)13.69
Adjusted death rate16.32
Increase in deaths over previous day (%)13.7


Any sign of a downward trend?





Will the Government make their 100,000 a day target by April 30th?


Tests carried out UK
Total tests carried out    640,792 
  in last 24 hours73,614
How many less than Governments target26,386
People tested517,836
Negative (n/%)71
Positive (n/%)29
  average per day since first death10,154
Percent population UK tested0.76%


 Total confirmed casesIncrease over previous day (%)% 0f all UK deaths
 London 23,3411.2123
 South East 15,4532.81 
 South West 5,7013.13 
 North West 16,7093.00 
 East 9,1753.20 
 Midlands 17,5822.74 
 North East/Yorkshire 15,4313.76 
Currently only able to find death rates for London. As soon as I can locate them for other English regions I will do so.




International comparisons
 Total deathsAs % of total deaths worldwideDeaths per 100,000 population
Worldwide199,372  
UK20,31912.1536.78
England17,3728.7131.03
Scotland1,1200.5620.60
Wales7510.3823.93
Northern Ireland2630.1313.98
USA52,34926.2615.83
China46320.320.02
New Zealand180.010.37
Sweden2,1920.0821.93
Norway2010.103.71
Germany5,7882.907.00
Italy25,96913.0342.94



Which countries should the rest of the World follow?





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