11 people have now sadly died at St Mary’s Hospital having tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19, according to the latest information from NHS England.
The death toll increased from 8 to 10 on Easter Sunday with the victims passing away at the hospital on Thursday 9th April.
Now, it has been revealed that another person has died, taking the total number of deaths since 22nd March to 11. They died on Saturday.
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust are yet to issue a statement on this latest death and the 2 deaths announced yesterday.
Official figures from Public Health England show that there are a total of 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus on the Isle of Wight as of 12th April, with that number expected to increase later on today.
As of Thursday, 9 people admitted to St Mary’s Hospital to have tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and been discharged.
Nationally, the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 stands at over 84,000. There have been at least 10,612 deaths across the country.
The number of new cases on the Island is not skyrocketing as one could have been expected, with the Isle of Wight still sitting at the bottom of the table when in terms of the total number of cases – save for Rutland.
Now another poor soul gone. I shouldn’t be surprised, but it is still terrible to hear. Nothing said as to if they had underlying health problems, Also if someone doesn’t go to doctors with their health problems, would they be classed as not having any?
i heard a news report a little while ago, they said that this virus is not going to go away and we will have to learn to adopt to living with the threat of it. this is terrifying, especially for those of us with severe anxiety conditions, my friend and I have phobias about medical treatments and tests and what have you, and so never go to doctors, he is in his eighties and has got more infirm because of not being allowed to go out because of the lockdown, he is getting very depressed and says he doesn’t want to go on, i have to hear all this and worried sick about him, and trying to cope with my own fears and anxiety, very isolated with no friends or family to care about me, even though I have always lived here, most of the people i knew have died or just moved off the island over the years,
I can see no hope in any of this. What quality of life will this be?
Worried, I think we need to be honest but realistic here. The Island so far, is the second to lowest in the UK. That is bearing in mind we have a high amount of elderly, idiots, and disabled.
So, that is a positive.
Suffering anxiety is bad, but it won’t kill you, your risk to life is likely improved because of your anxiety will ensure you are out less, and are more careful when you do emerge.
Same with you rarely go to the doc, that is good as clearly going now, is a larger risk than many other places.
You are lucky to live here on the Island, can you imagine being old, living in an inner City with half the worlds dross making go out fearful of being mugged, beaten, stabbed and robbed, raped if young.
At least your fears are mainly in your head, for some, REAL life is filled with being anxious for very good reasons.
You say you have no friends, but your friend is elderly, so although he is unwell, you do have a purpose to care for him as best you can.
I hope you are genuine and this is not a wind up as many sick get a buzz from such. If so you post on here, it is some form of contact, many on the Island will help you with shopping etc.
Check out the help available, even WIGHTBAY are providing help if needed on their website.
We all age, we all watch our parents getting more and more disabled and their purpose to living drift away, whilst those with family can try to reassure them, sometimes it is only themselves who can change their mindset, and learn to accept a lower standard of life, but still realise it is better than some others and to be slightly grateful just for that.
The Samaritans may be of use, if you can type on here, you can look them up.
Many are going to be left broke, lonely, losing their loved ones, their pets in homes, worried where their owners have gone, why have they been deserted by those who cared for them, with no-one to explain to them.
Sadly we all need to know we are not the ONLY ones suffering, many are, including pets, orphaned children, and those NHS workers who lose a partner who were caring for others.
So, try to think of them as well as your own, undoubted worries.
Well said, there is always someone in a worse situation. I would say however that excessive worry is dangerous to one’s health. Try to see the positives rather than the negatives.
There are phone numbers you can call to get help , one being AgeUK , maybe your friend could talk to them and you could too, so you don’t feel so isolated , and also to see if you can get some outside help through this unprecedented time x
Hi, it will go away or get weaker. Then when there is a vaccine for it we will all be safe. I think most people with or without anxiety are going through a nightmare.
Thank you for your comments. I do try to think more positive and there’s some encouraging advice here. I try not to be so negative but the anxiety is constantly troubling me, always the fear that no matter how careful you are, it might not be enough, my friend was so down last night, the worry of that kept me awake all night nagging at me, like he just didn’t want to live anymore, the things he was saying. He won’t get any help for the things that are troubling him through the aging process and I don’t blame him as neither of us trusts pharmacological drugs and if we went to doctors they’d definitely want us on something for the different ailments. My friend won’t have anything to do with Age UK, not the local ones anyway, he had bad experience with them in the past, as have I, one particular woman there who seemed to be in charge, but that’s another matter.
It’s true we are all in this together and not just on the Island or in the country as a whole but all round the world too. I just hope some good can come out of all this.
Well we are not at the bottom then, but, second to bottom, with Rutland at the bottom.
Wasted words !
RIP all those who have passed, and good wishes for a speedy recovery for those in hospital with Covid 19.
Now more dying (11) than coming out after being admitted to St Mary’s (9). Worrying, best stay in, as odds not improved if admitted it appears.
Unsure why, do we not have the correct ventilators here?
Ensure you and your children stay away from all, otherwise many more will die, and those who do survive, may be left with life changing conditions for the rest of time.
This is not something to treat lightly, even Boris is going to be out of action for a long time, and that is with decent care, and after care.
Stay safe by avoidance is the best policy.
When Boris was in hospital, we were told that he was stable and in IC for precaution, and now it transpires he was far worse than we were told at the time.. It makes you wonder what else is being held back. Maybe they didn’t want to worry us and have the country panicking?
I heard the report that they will try to make us all have the app that tracks where you go and can tell you if you have been near anyone with the virus. like they did in South Korea, quite successfully.
Obviously if they did this over here, people will start complaining about being scrutinised and surveyed, but I won’t be going out to meet anyone dodgy or doing drug deals, or having affairs, or anything that some wouldn’t want themselves tracked for. It’s not nice to think we would be monitored like that but if it keeps everyone safe, as long as you’re not doing anything wrong or shady, then it shouldn’t matter.
I do wonder if they have always wanted to track everyone, as a way of reducing crime and criminal activities, terrorists etc, and people would not have accepted it before, but now they might, that they have to try and get on top of this horrible virus. maybe it’s the only way.
Just think what would have happened if they had just allowed it to run unchecked, with no interventions or steps taken to try and stop it spreading, there would be bodies piling up in the streets and no one would be able to cope with so much death and illness as there would be so much all at once , it is bad enough now even with the precautions in place, just think of how bad it would be if there was nothing being done.
Of course it could all be Nature’s way, trying to get rid of the humans who are causing the damage to the environment, but don’t worry, I’m sure the scummy types will be breeding in droves now to make up for it. (As if they ever need an excuse anyway.) Maybe there won’t be enough in benefits to go round to accommodate them all though.
stay at home.
Please don’t apply for a job at the Samaritans. Culver cliff would look like a plane had crashed.
Phil, maybe with some of the scummy types littering up this Island, that might be a good thing. But don’t suppose they’d be the types to do it.
Just look up Peter Rolfe, Isle of Wight.
Oh and his daughter Leeane too, what a lovely family!
@stay at home….. yes it does matter – the state is not going to be allowed to stomp all over everyones civil liberties, right to self determination, right to freedom of movement and the right to ignore government rules, if seen fit to, any longer than is necessary.
They are not going to be allowed to monitor and track your every move indefinitely, this is not communist, china, with its small handful of tin pot dictators telling other human beings what they can or cannot do – they have no right to.
if you are so worried, scared of your own shadow and need to be told when to use the toilet by the state and when to breathe, then that is your problem – stop trying to impose your weakness and fear onto others – face it and get on with life.
Nothing like a panic, to ensure people demand more security etc and the state is more than willing to step up, give you what you want and control your miserable lives for you, as requested.
Be a good little drone and stay at home, just like nanny state tells you.
Well said none given. You have encountered the sheep people. Scared of everything, needs to be told what to do,think ,and feel. These type of people have the back bone of a jelly fish. Me personally, no I will not be told life will never be the same again,bullshit. It’s how they want to change society. Use this virus as an excuse to change the way we live. I would rather die on my feet then live like they want me to ,on my knees!
exactly Mr Justice – the sheeple blindly doing as they are told without question.
all of these spineless wonders need cradle to grave state support – without it, they fall to the ground crying in a heap. There is nothing more suited to government, than subservient, weak, spineless little drones that do as they are told, under the premise that something bad might happen if they do not.
When I was born, there wasn’t a note attached to me that said “do what other human beings tell you, without question – you are just a mindless drone, who was created to serve the needs of others”
I will do what I want, when I want and if others do not like it, they can hide away indoors under the comfort of their state provided roof and whinge about it all they like.
Heaven forbid that anyone should ever have their ‘rights’ interfered with. The right to be an abusive nuisance and source of extreme stress to others should never be interfered with.
It’s odd how the only people in our society who have no, or very little, rights, are the decent people who would just like to lead a quiet life with a nice environment, free from other people’s noise, pollution, and rubbish, and destruction of the natural world, but instead we have to put up with all the bleeding hearts telling us that the scummiest people are actually, *sob* vulnerable and ‘underprivileged’ and all they need is to be part of everyone else’s life and they will be good people, but doesn’t happen does it, they just bring down any area to their level of lowness.
Anyone who wants to champion those sort of people wants to try living next door, or indeed, anywhere near them, and only the same type themselves could put up with it.
@stay at home..
I couldn’t care less about the low life deadbeats that inhabit society – I am only interested in my own right to self determination and freedom of movement. I am not going to be monitored like some prisoner, just because some self righteous jobsworth thinks that it is somehow their god given right to interfere in others lives.
social engineering by lefty do gooding social workers is a failed experiment, which will never, ever work – because people naturally gravitate towards “their own” – that being the type of people they prefer to live around and socialise with – the state cannot force you to be friends with people and help them out.
you are correct though – no one should have their rights interfered with, even the shitebags.
I only care about those that I feel like caring about – the rest, I simply ignore. Some days, I couldn’t care less about anyone other than myself, so do not confuse me with some do gooder – because it couldn’t be further from the truth.
I guess I’ve heard so much from the lefty do gooders that seem to think that the scum they stick up for have more rights than anyone else, and a decent person being made to suffer because of them is expected to put up with it and shut up, for to raise one word of objection to the selfish, uncaring behaviour of scummy lowlife is to be “churlish”, because as far as the do gooders are concerned, the scum are “underprivileged” , whereas someone who may be more underprivileged but did not grow up to be the same is discounted.
I have long complained about our loss of freedom in this country,mainly the loss of free speech, can’t speak for fear of saying something that could be misconstrued by the PC brigade, a man can have a full beard but call himself a woman and we are supposed to remember to refer to him as she, it is all so confusing and stressful, so the idea of ‘rights’ can be interpreted different ways,
I recall many people in Britain moaning about their loss of rights when the smoking ban came in, but that was a case where the loss of ‘rights’ was a good thing, because there seemed to be no rights for people who wished to go into a cafe for tea without being forced to breathe in someone else’s cigarette smoke. (And I speak as someone who used to smoke myself, but gave up when it affected my health adversely. Now I cannot tolerate the smell of smoke without it affecting me. I can’t help that, it is just the way it is, but I have to protect myself from it.)
Time and ti me again people are told to stay at home. Whenever i am out shopping i see old people over 60 standing talking to each other with less than a metre between them. when i am standing in a queue at a supermarket i turn round and an old person is standing right behind me. When i ask them to move back they started tutting informing they haven’t got anything.. It seems as if old people cannot be told and they wonder why so many people end up in hospital.
My friend, 60 is not old for many of us!
Wow these comments make a perfect script