okocha wrote:Nice work, Sluffy. Reassuring.
Do you know if there are any such figures for deaths in care homes and deaths suffered at home?
And what are fellow-Nutters thinking about this?....
"UK airlines say they have been told the government will bring in a 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the UK from any country apart from the Republic of Ireland in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The new restriction is expected to take effect at the end of this month." (BBC website)
Thanks.
Yes there are - obviously - because the government is reporting on the combined totals.
I guess if you dig around for them you can find them - for instance -
"The number of deaths in care homes (from all causes) for Week 17 was 7,911, which is 595 higher than Week 16. The number of deaths in hospitals for Week 17 was 8,243, which is 1,191 lower than Week 16".
Taken from here -
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/latest...but I've read enough death stats myself already not to be wanting to search for more right now.
As for ports of entry quarantining, if you want to make a political point then please do it on the other thread specifically started for that subject.
If not this is what Professor Van-Tam said about it on the 21st April
England’s deputy chief medical officer has defended the Government’s decision not to screen passengers arriving at UK airports for coronavirus.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said a “basic problem” with port entry checks was they would not pick up cases of people infected overseas but who were yet to display any Covid-19 symptoms.
He said the virus had an incubation period of up to 14 days, meaning that someone with the disease could still “sail” through any screening as they would not necessarily show signs of a fever.
“The problem is that people can be infected before they get on the flight and the incubation period for this virus is up to 14 days. And it’s typically five days.
“So I can fly back… on a long flight and I can become infected in that country before I get on the aircraft, and I will sail through Heathrow with absolutely no symptoms at all.
“I’m not being untruthful, there is nothing to declare. I won’t have a fever, I won’t be picked out.
“But when I get to my home in the north of England, at that point I may develop symptoms a few days later, and clearly the port of entry screening hasn’t worked.”
Prof Van-Tam said the proportion of new cases coming in from abroad “would be minuscule” compared to the “force of infection” in the UK at present.Health Secretary Matt Hancock previously said the UK did not carry out testing at airports as the number of arrivals had “dropped dramatically”.
Feel free to see what he said at the government daily briefing on the 21st April - (fast forwards to 31 minutes for his speech)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000hxlp/briefings-downing-street-coronavirus-news-conference-21042020