The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus on the Isle of Wight has risen from 14 to 17 today (Thursday) – but it is thought the statistics are at least 24 hours out of date.
Island Echo understands that staff at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust were told yesterday (Wednesday) that the number of cases on the Island had increased to 17, but the official Public Health England figures released last night only revealed 14 cases.
Now, 24 hours later, the official figure has been updated to reflect the 17 cases.
The Isle of Wight has one of the lowest confirmed cases rates in the country, second only to Rutland which has just 5 confirmed cases. Despite there being just 17 cases locally, 2 people have sadly died at St Mary’s Hospital. Although the number of confirmed cases is low, it doesn’t mean that there are not other cases within the community with individuals self-isolating and recovery at home without being tested.
Patients admitted to hospital are currently being treated in an isolation ward with the NHS using the as-was stroke unit for such purposes. Island Echo understands that the Laidlaw building is being cleared to be used as an additional area. The archive room is also being cleared with files transferred to HMP Isle of Wight.
As of 09:00 on 2nd April 2020, 33,718 people have been confirmed as having coronavirus. 2,921 patients have died nationally to date, including 2 men on the Isle of Wight.
For the latest information on coronavirus here on the Isle of Wight visit islandecho.co.uk/category/coronavirus.
Symptoms of coronavirus
Stay at home if you have either:
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] shortness of breath.
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] To protect others, do not go to places like a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital. Stay at home.
The symptoms are similar to other illnesses that are much more common, such as cold and flu. Research shows it takes, on average, around 5 days for symptoms to start showing.
Use the 111 online coronavirus service to find out what to do.
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] Use the 111 coronavirus service for information.
Only call 111 if you cannot get help online.
How long to stay at home
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] if you have symptoms of coronavirus, you'll need to stay at home for 7 days.
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] if you live with someone who has symptoms, you'll need to stay at home for 14 days from the day the first person in the home started having symptoms
[mks_icon icon="fa-exclamation-circle" color="#dd9933" type="fa"] If you live with someone who is 70 or over, has a long-term condition, is pregnant or has a weakened immune system, try to find somewhere else for them to stay for 14 days.
[mks_icon icon="fa-exclamation-circle" color="#dd9933" type="fa"] If you have to stay at home together, try to keep away from each other as much as possible.
Read the NHS advice about staying at home.
How to avoid catching and spreading coronavirus (social distancing)
Everyone should do what they can to stop coronavirus from spreading.
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] Do
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] always wash your hands when you get home or into work
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] avoid close contact with people who have symptoms of coronavirus
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] only travel on public transport if you need to
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] work from home, if you can
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] avoid social activities, such as going to pubs, restaurants, theatres and cinemas
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] avoid events with large groups of people
[mks_icon icon="fa-check" color="#81d742" type="fa"] use a phone, online services, or apps to contact your GP surgery or other NHS services
[mks_icon icon="fa-times" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] Don't
[mks_icon icon="fa-times" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth if your hands are not clean
[mks_icon icon="fa-times" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] do not have visitors to your home, including friends and family
Advice for people at high risk
If you're at high risk of getting seriously ill from coronavirus, there are extra things you should do to avoid catching it.
These include:
[mks_icon icon="fa-times" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] not leaving your home – you should not go out to do shopping, visit friends or family, or attend any gatherings
[mks_icon icon="fa-times" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] avoiding close contact with other people in your home as much as possible
Read the full advice on protecting yourself if you're at high risk from coronavirus on GOV.UK.
Who is at high risk?
You may be at high risk from coronavirus if you:
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] have had an organ transplant
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] are having certain types of cancer treatment
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] have blood or bone marrow cancer, such as leukaemia
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] have a severe lung condition, such as cystic fibrosis or severe asthma
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] have a condition that makes you much more likely to get infections
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] are taking medicine that weakens your immune system
[mks_icon icon="fa-arrow-right" color="#e30f13" type="fa"] are pregnant and have a serious heart condition
If you're at high risk, you will be contacted by the NHS by Sunday 29 March 2020. Do not contact your GP or healthcare team at this stage – wait to be contacted.
How coronavirus is spread
Because it's a new illness, the NHS does not know exactly how coronavirus spreads from person to person.
Similar viruses are spread in cough droplets.
It's very unlikely it can be spread through things like packages or food.
Pregnancy advice
If you're pregnant and worried about coronavirus, you can get advice about coronavirus and pregnancy from the Royal College of Obstretricians and Gynaecologists.
Travel advice
There are some countries and areas where there's a higher chance of coming into contact with someone with coronavirus.
If you're planning to travel abroad and are concerned about coronavirus, see advice for travellers on GOV.UK.
Treatment for coronavirus
There is currently no specific treatment for coronavirus.
Antibiotics do not help, as they do not work against viruses.
Treatment aims to relieve the symptoms while your body fights the illness.
You'll need to stay in isolation, away from other people, until you have recovered.
More information
GOV.UK: coronavirus action plan
GOV.UK: information on coronavirus and the situation in the UK
NHS England: coronavirus for health professionals
My husband got called to a job at Mill Hill Road Cowes this morning (hes a key worker) & was so shocked to see how many people were walking around & chatting close to each other on the roads. Also the couple of shops he passed were packed.. It’s no wonder this disease is spreading. There will be many more lives lost on the island unless those selfish people stay home. If you dont worry about yourself then think of your family members & friends.
Farmers are screeming out for local labourers to work the land, we need the government to force those lazy dole scroungers who have been on the benefit gravey train to earn a living for a change.
So, dole scroungers, work for a change. Your country needs you!!! No more excuses, get out of bed, set an example to your children and guide them into the world of work.
Clair well said
Sorry “Clare”
Claire we live in a democracy not a dictatorship.you should keep your opinions to yourself and go back under your rock!!!
Sounds like you are one of the people claire is talking about , did she hit a nerve.
So you really want low life scum bag dole bum druggie Heroin addicts,alcoholics,pot heads,crack heads,cocaine addicts , pill poppers and criminal scum too work on farms collecting in the harvest.These are the type of people you our referring to. P.S I work for a living and pay for these low life’s.We should just line them up instead and shot them dead by firing squad!!!
You say we live in a democracy not a dictatorship, so why are you telling me to go under a rock!!!
Do you not like free speech!!!!
Me thinks you doth protest too much!….
CLAIRE It’s called sarcasm you fat sweat pig,freedom of speech.lol
I’m hardly fat, I’m just eight stone and five foot nine inches tall….
Your comment is completely unrelated to this article. In my opinion it would seem you have a chip on your shoulder about something else.
you look a little silly because not only is the comment unrelated to the article it’s ignorant, unless you know everyone on benefits personally and the reason for being on it witch would be impressive.
I’m not say the benefit system isn’t abused but it’s Immoral to paint everyone with the same brush.
Stay safe in these trying times you extremely judgemental Individual.
And remember scroungers – if you can’t get out and help then just type about it here………
JOHN sounds like you have a small penis aka Chode.lmfao
Problem is, do you really want lazy people working for you? The dole offers a good living these days thanks to Labour buying votes. In Ryde I see two drunks that almost every day go to corner shop, buy cans of beer and drink themselves silly on the beach. My tax money paying for them to never need to work.
What a perfect way to encourage people to help, insult them without knowing their circumstances. Especially as so many people have been laid off work and having to sign on now.
There’s a lot of people who show no signs of the virus sat on their asses ( but don’t know there not infected ) who could help tend the land not just as you put it the scroungers and this could be classified as essential work
I totally agree clare but for one would not employ such!!
The problem is low life have the most children. These are then ‘used’ as a shield, as in ‘you can’t cut my money, or make me homeless even if I trash the place as ‘I got kids innit’.
Hence they won’t work, will get their cash paid uninterrupted and now get a grand more on child tax credits. WHY WORK, when having casual s ex will get you a home, an income and a shield to prevent you ‘ever’ having to do anything you don’t wish to do?
The next generation grow up seeing that their parent, or parents in rare cases, have done better than most low paid toiling away for hours at a check out etc, especially as so many sell and grow drug or deal in such so they grow up even more feral than the womb owner, or hard to trace father, if known at all.
End such payments, and make it cost not profit the unemployed to have children, then maybe only wanted, not drunk or drugged or casual sex children would replace those who aren’t wanted, only for the guarantee of living on easy street for years.
get out and work or stop there dole lazy pgs
Totally agree they ought to be made to work BUT why would they ?? Getting money for nothing , getting up when they want. Hard work on the land so they would probably find any excuse not to . Cut their money !
Well said!!!
Sadly this won’t happen they get to much money on benefits.
Ok tell me a name of a farmer on the island that needs helpers for min wage or more and I’ll phone him tomorrow at 9am and I can start at 930 same day thanks for getting me a job please answer now. As waiing
I’m waiting girl All mouth and look on the news the hole world is unemployed and waiting for benefits. Are you on benefits YET if you are your are doll bum then go and get stoned and chill you crack head
Absolutely agree Clare. All you people who are ‘free loaders’ WORK for your money instead of TAKING. You know who you are!
Problem is most of these scum would be absolutely useless to any employer.
To each genuine person on benefits, there seems to be more who just see it as easy money for nothing, the decent people are outnumbered by the scummy trash who would be fit for nothing employable anyway. The only thing they are any good at is breeding, which they do in abundance.
Isle of Wight population EST 142,000 Covid 19 now 17 confirmed cases.WoW I do not no what all the fuss is about.Its not like people are dropping like flys!
As a proportion of total population our figures are lower than Rutland since they have about a quarter of our population in roughly the same area which is why these figures are, in a sense, meaningless.
The people they represent, however, are real and their lives do have meaning.
So do the lives of everyone on the island, for that matter.
I do agree about the fuss though, we all need to take sensible precautions, not spread fear, misinformation and paranioa.
Some people are just not getting the seriousness of this pandemic, The Government published a chart showing how two people can spread the virus to over 1500 other people by just going out Take the fact there are people out there taking their lives in their hands .ie medical staff, shop staff . we have enough stupid people that have abused the government lock down hopefully our figures will stay low .
Once again the figures go up, yes people are to close to each other. Watch out in supermarkets as well because a lot of people are using this social distancing as a weapon….. they charge at you so that you have to move out of the way of them…… not only is that rude but downright dangerous at this time. 17 people now with the virus (that we have been told about, but they will be more that we do not know about as yet)
I don’t see Bob Seeley fighting for the St Mary’s Hospital much if at all, only it seems for the ferry companies, tourism and stopping wind farms…. for Gods sake, get some proper masks, gloves and gowns to the Phlebotomy, Eye, Podiatry Departments. Nurses and Doctors mostly have this equipment, it looks very wrong to see patients sitting down and waiting for blood tests all wearing masks, and yet the hard working staff do not…… something very wrong here.
Bare in mind that information is slightly delayed, for example any deaths from the virus have to be confirmed by autopsy first before they can go to public information, even if the person was a confirmed case before they passed
That’s where you wrong my friend, there no autopsies. He died of covid 19 and that’s that!!
So someone dies from covid 19 but they don’t do an autopsy to see the cause of death… we are just told that, that’s what it was. So they could of died from their underlying health condition (if they had one)
All a bit suspicious to me!
Thank you NHS, we love you….xxxxxxx
What is wrong with people. Why can’t you just follow the guidance and stay indoors. It really isn’t difficult. The longer this goes on and keeps going up with cases, the more likely we will still be in a Lockdown. Stop being morons.
It is like a holiday down on Sandown beach everyday I thought we were told to stay at home, people collecting shells and stones others building sand castles and not many staying 2meters apart it’s a joke
So I have been told. Also youths hanging around the lake where the swans are smoking, and drinking. Clearly not from the same house. Kids being lifted over the barriers to play on the playground. People are really thick and think ‘it won’t get me, it’s just a cold’. It’s about time they grow up. Some countries are shooting people for being out, maybe its time the UK started to be a bit more harsh. The softly nice approach clearly isn’t working. Even on the NHS clapping at 8pm,where was the 2 metres there. I saw people so close together. I honestly despair at people. Is it really that difficult. You all know we have 1 hospital which is at breaking point, so do them and yourselves a favour and stay indoors. Don’t go out walking your dogs together with your neighbours which I have seen, don’t take your kids out for a picnic and play in the park. Just stop being idiots as the longer this goes on the longer the Government will have us on lockdown.
A big thankyou to our girls and boys of the nhs. Your doing a great job in very difficult times.