Wednesday April 8th

Quote of the day

 “We are extremely concerned about the psychological and physical wellbeing of our hospital members, who are traumatised and struggling to cope with the impact of this pandemic. They are on the front line, doing the type of work that would distress anyone and increasingly dealing with death.” 
GMB official Helen O’Connor responding to news that porters in London hospitals are distressed because they are running out of body bags and do not have PPE when dealing with Covid-19 victims.

Headlines



  • A total of 82,124 people have now died from Covid-19 across the World
  • There are now 1,432,686 confirmed cases of the virus worldwide
  • After a slight fall deaths in the UK rose to 786 in 24 hours, a new high
  • Government scientists claimed that there is a "slight" flattening of the curve. Not so, see below.
  • It is normal for there to be peaks and troughs but the curve for both the world and the UK is still clearly upward
  • There was a problem with data processing in the UK yesterday which means todays figures are provisional
  • The families of NHS workers who have died are complaining of a lack of care by the NHS which in some cases has not tested people, and in others left them to work in Covid Wards with inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson remains in intensive care


NHS Staff Who Have Died During the Covid-19 Crisis*

Aimee O’Rourke, 38, nurse, mother to three girls, worked in the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Kent. Died April 2nd




Areema Nasreen, 36, nurse, mother-of-three, worked for the NHS for 16 years Died April 3rd




John Alagos, 23, Nursing Assistant Died April 3rd









Thomas Harvey, 57 Nurse. Father-of-seven devoted more than 20 years of his life to the NHS and worked at Goodmayes Hospital, Watford Died 29th March




Glen Corbin, 59 A HCA who had worked at the Park Royal Centre for Mental Health in Harlesden, north-west London, for more than 25 years. Died 29th March


Professor Sami Shousha, 79 worked at the UK cancer research laboratories at London's Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals. He passed away on April 2.






Mr Jitendra Rathod 62-year-old father of two worked in the department of cardio-throacic surgery at The Heath Hospital Cardiff since the mid 1990s. Died April 6th
Liz Glanister, Staff Nurse at the Aintree University Hospital, died on Friday 3 April 








Dr Amged El-Hawrani
Dr Habib Zaidi, 76
Dr Alfa Saadu, 68
Mr Adil El Tayar, 63

 *I am trying to update this information but it is very much a work in progress.

UK Stats

DateDays since first deathWeekly comparison figures
07/04/202033
  
Deaths6,1593,807deaths in the past week
New deaths786
Death Rate11.15
Increase in deaths over previous day (%)14.6
Total tests carried out213,18160,202people tested in the past week
Negative (n/%)157,93974%-28% negative tests
Positive (n/%)55,24226%87% more positive tests
  
Percent population UK tested0.31%0.09of the population tested since last week
Notes:
1. Death rate here is the percentage of deaths in hospital divided by the number of positive tests.
2. Tests carried out is the number of people tested. The actual number of tests is higher because some people are tested more than once for medical reasons.
3. Today's figures do not include Manchester and Leeds due to an error in data processing. The tests concluded figures exclude Northern Ireland (from the Government website)

4 Nations

The country data has not been updated on the Government website. No reason is given.

English Regions

 Total confirmed casesIncrease over previous day (%)
 London 13,37830.30
 South East 5,53912.55
 South West 2,0474.64
 North West 6,09013.79
 East 3,7078.40
 Midlandss 7,80617.68
 North East/Yorkshire 5,58312.65

Covid Curves

UK, daily deaths
World, daily deaths

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