86 cases of coronavirus have now been confirmed on the Isle of Wight, according to the latest data from Public Health England.
Figures reveal that there have been a further 4 cases of COVID-19 identified and confirmed on the Island, taking the overall total from 82 to 86.
Earlier today it was announced that the number of deaths has increased to 21. With 21 recoveries also recorded, the total number of active cases locally sits at 44, however, not all of those 44 cases are being treated in St Mary’s Hospital.
Nationally, the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 stands at 148,377 with 20,319 deaths (as of 25th April).
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
Why are appointments and treatments being cancelled then, I’ve heard the hospital is practically empty after clearing all wards. There are still people including children needing operations and cancer treatments, there will be more people dying of other illnesses , the backlog will be horrendous and too late for some !
Agree, this is a very serious issue. Elective treatments can be life saving, and NHS waiting times were pretty awful before the CV crisis. Doctors are also concerned that many people are not getting checked out when having symptoms that could be a critical illness. So many knock-on effects from this bloody thing.
Fully agree, as if 21 CV cases are in hospital, then what are all the other staff doing who normally treat other ailments?
Seems CV is the ‘ONLY’ thing that matters, when clearly it isn’t. Although only half will survive at present numbers who go into hospital, the chances for those with other ailments of being fully cured are far far greater and many of the victims of ‘other’ ailments are far younger, so, imo they should not be ignored for those who are very old and ill and in truth sadly unlikely to pull through anyway.
Not saying not to fully treat all CV cases but as in a separate area and only a couple of dozen thankfully so far, seems odd to cancel appointments which may cause more avoidable deaths for our younger people.
Oh come on, think! If lots of people are up the hospital they will see the 200 beds the army help build will be empty. Why can’t you people see out side what you are told.
Not very good odds of survival if taken in our hospital, is this the normal for other parts of the UK and world to have only a 50/50 chance of ever coming out again.
Cant find the data anywhere.
Also how many come out with life changing damage to lungs, heart and liver etc?
Why are we so ill informed apart from the usual drone of stay in, wash hands, etc.
People may be more shocked into doing so IF we were told the full truth of survival and life long damage from CV.
If the idea of death isn’t sufficiently frightening I’m not sure how life long damage would be? Also unsure how there could be a measure of long term effects from a virus which has only been around since late last year.
What we do know is that admissions to hospitals and the number of people in ICU have reduced since we stayed in etc.
Covud has been around since the 70s 7 strains
You’re right not enough data or other information. At the risk of sounding cynical, we know the mortality for those over 80 is high as it is for those with severe underlying conditions, are all if not most of these deaths in these categories?
The bigger worry is the day on day rise in new cases, how are these people contracting it if all the rules are being followed. Are there small outbreaks in care homes for instance, are people bringing it from the mainland? Who Knows.
Don’t forget……the statistics are often not realistic in that cases can be carried for weeks before manifesting symptoms.
We can,every one of us be mingling unwittingly every day with carriers or asymptomatic peope in supermarkets or neighbourhoods if we are not being vigilant enough or diligent enough in hand-washing etc. and social distancing.
The daily rises or near-on are not unsurprising; if anything we are very fortunate that we aren’t seeing anything more drastic at the moment but that can easily change when we realise it took only one person to start the whole thing off in China.
The Island has so far been miraculously only slightly hit by comparison but who knows when it comes to the many care/residential homes?
All we can do is be firm in adhering to the great advice of staying home as much as we possibly can,diligent in hygiene practices and be patient in waiting it out.
OK….maybe if it takes months more yet what is that weighed against the rest of your life?
There is a long way to go yet,I’ve no doubt but we cannot do anything other than hang on in there and look to a time when we all look back on this as better people as surely we will all have to reappraise a lot of how we live and how we relate to one another in the best of ways.
This is what I have been asking for weeks Pedro. How and why are we hearing of new cases on a daily basis? We, island residents should at least be told these people’s age then it might give us a clue.
To all those asking why is it that new cases are getting infected if the rules are being followed, it is because the rules are *not* being followed.
Even if the rules are being followed by the majority, it only takes a few not following to cause infections, and I have seen many not following the rules.
I agree …I live in bembridge and today a mass gathering for some reason and when I pointed my camera out the window they all left
And old enough to know better and should be shielding themselves….get the police to patrol more …that’s what we need ….sick of the ones who think lock down doesn’t apply to them …..selfish
Don’t forget to include the 99% of cases that aren’t serious enough to warrant hospitalisation and so will never get included in the statistics.
I should also point out that current scientific evidence suggests that just being born is a leading cause of mortality in humans – 100% of people who die were born at some point.
Silly statistics? Of course!
But that is my point – if you use invalid data, or interpret it the wrong way you can come up with some very misleading results.
Current Covid stats ignore a lot of the data so treat them with caution.
Doctors being pressured to report deaths as covid
Absolutely Jim! Spot on!!
It by now should be blatantly obvious to anyone with a modicum of sense that “more information” is not going to help. Why do you need to be told what to do all the time. You should know by now that CV 19 will kill, it might not kill you because you are not one of the vulnerable groups but it is very easily spread, so you could be directly responsible for the death of someone else and not know it. Use brains you were given.
The rise in cases is caused by complacency and the “I know best” syndrome. All the rules are NOT being followed,you only have to look around to see that.
I suggest things DO need to be mentioned to the many people who are not too switched on here.
When my mail arrives, I leave it for several days in the sun before opening, who knows who touched the letter, was it licked to seal, how long is the virus active for in a sealed package, so I leave parcels too.
Same with shopping, sure you wash your hands, how many other hands have touched that product to put on shelf, have old people squeeze, smell the bread, then put it back, or touch a tin with virus hands, which lives HOURS and sometimes DAYS on metal, so you touch that, then touch the carrier bag handles, then come in wash your hands, but, by then the virus has transferred from tin, to bag handles, to car key fob, to car door handle, to SIDE of car door as we don’t ‘shut’ doors by the handles, then the steering wheel the radio, window controls, etc etc.
Just ONE way the virus from the careful ‘washing their hands’ can still infect for hours or days solid object which are so easy to touch as you have to deep clean EVERY package you bought form the super market to be SURE you have bought NO virus home, and then cleanse everything you have touched in you car, your doors, your tap, the soap or cleanser bottle.
MISS ANY OF IT, JUST ONCE, IN THE LONG MONTHS AHEAD, as likely someone will spread this or catch this and many as we sadly see will perish.
Many don’t think, so imo, this will continue as everyone misses something once no matter how careful
Be careful what you say, old people can be quite vindictive. If the tone of your comments gets much worse you will be suggesting euthenasia for the over 60s next.
Keep washing those hands and sanitizing everything and when you’re set free your immune system will be very weak and you will have little deficiencies
Defense
I’ve seen a few comments asking: “Why are people still getting infected if all the rules are being followed?”
The answer is simple, it is because all the rules are *not* being followed!
It may depend on where you live on the Island, but certainly from what I’ve seen in areas of East Cowes, Newport, and especially, Ryde, rules are not being followed.
Also, in the stores, people ignoring the arrows showing which direction to walk in, even in Waitrose, people coming the wrong way down an aisle and then looking at you as though you are in *their* way when they are the ones going in the wrong direction.
I’ve seen the posts telling of how bad it is in Morrisons, I don’t know what it is like in Tesco, but I dread to think what it may be like in Lidl, I went in there not long ago and someone had taken a bag of croissants off the shelf, taken a bite out of one, and then put it back in the bag with the others and dumped the bag of croissants on a shelf among the biscuits.
Absolutely vile, but no doubt the apologists will make excuses for them saying they can’t help it because they are probably “underprivileged” and therefore don’t know any better. So much garbage from the lefties who by their excuses and reasons for the bad behaviour of certain people insult people who grew up in vastly underprivileged households but who nevertheless grew up to be decent human beings who would not dream of behaving in such a disgusting manner.
The stats say 97% survival rate
The Coronavirus social distancing info is very out of date – it refers to avoiding restaurants, theatres etc when these have been shut for over a month. Also if people who believe they are at high risk didn’t receive the letter mentioned, they should contact their GP. Needs updating!