Stats as of Wednesday April 1st 2020




Welcome to my new blog page. I've started this just to put up stats during the Covid-19 crisis. I will continue to blog as Thinking and Doing (all my political stuff) elsewhere, but this is for anybody who wants to keep up to date with the numbers.
I tried this on Facebook but it let me down. I've changed the format to highlight the statistics. For those who say that these are "Government statistics" I would just remind you that the Government does not produce any statistics, they have statistics produced for them. See my other blog for a critique of the Government's inactivity over the crisis if you think that I am in any way supportive of their stance.

Wednesday April 1st 2020

 Headlines:
  • UK has now had 1,789 confirmed deaths
  • Yesterday's 381 new deaths was a new record
  • The death rate (measured by deaths to positive tests) has now reached 7.11
  • The UK has now carried out 143,186 tests
  • The rate per day (since first UK death) average 5,507
  • England had a 29% increase in reported deaths yesterday (compared to previous day)
  • London had a 35% increase in reported deaths yesterday (compared to previous day)
  • UK percentage of GDP spent on health care (2016 figures) at 9.7% was 10th in Europe behind Switzerland, France, Germany.


 Please note: Stats are released at 5 pm each day, so it is likely that in the evening you will see more up-to-date stats quoted in the press and on websites. I keep this up-to-date on a daily basis but as I am recuperating from a serious operation I am unable to do so in the evenings.
DateDays since first death
31/03/202026
  
Deaths1,789
New deaths381
Death Rate7.11
Increase in deaths over previous day (%)27.1
Total tests carried out143,186
Negative (n/%)118,03682%
Positive (n/%)25,15018%
  


Percent population UK tested0.21%


CasesIncrease in cases over prevous dayDeathsNew deathsPercentage increase in deaths over previous day
England21,008131,65136729
Scotland1,9932847615
Wales1,563869711
N. ireland586 2215

 Total confirmed casesIncrease over previous day (%)
 London 7,12135.26
 South East 2,42512.01
 South West 9664.78
 North West 2,13210.56
 East 1,6328.08
 Midlandss 3,57017.68
 North East/Yorkshire 2,34811.63

 Health care expenditure, 2016  
 %GDPEUR per inhabitant
1Switzerland12.38841
2France11.53847
3Germany11.14271
4Sweden115123
5Norway10.56730
6Austria10.44248
7Netherlands10.34274
8Denmark10.25014
9Belgium103744
10UK9.73566
11Finland9.53727
12Malta9.31999
13Spain92159
14Portugal91632
15Italy8.92475
16Slovenia8.51657
17Greece8.31356
18Iceland8.34539
19Bulgaria8.25567
20Ireland7.44242
21Hungary7.4853
22Croatia7.2803
23Czechia7.11193
24Slovakia7.11061
25Cyprus6.81474
26Lithuania6.7899
27Estonia6.51072
28Poland6.5731
29Latvia6.2794
30Luxembourg6.25613
31Liechtenstein6.19104
32Romania5432
 Source Eurostat, 2015  

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