10 people have now sadly died on the Isle of Wight having tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19, it has been confirmed by NHS England this afternoon (Easter Sunday).
The latest victims died at St Mary’s Hospital in Newport on Thursday (9th April), taking the death toll from 8 to 10.
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has not yet issued a statement confirming the ages of those who have died, which it would normally do.
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.
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 British Army has been brought in to help reconfigure St Mary’s Hospital to create an additional 200 beds. Meanwhile, 4 refrigerated containers have brought over to act as a temporary mortuary, should the need arise. However, the number of new cases on the Island is not skyrocketing as could have been expected.
It’s frightening, said on news today that UK could be worse affected in all of europe. Yet people are not keeping to the instructions. One old woman was pushing close past everyone waiting in a long outside queue at Waitrose on Thursday, she had taken one of the smaller trolleys and put plants in it and tried to just push her way into the store at the front of the queue, but the security stopped her and took the plants out and put them into one of the large trolleys, – for some reason they wanted everyone to have a large trolley, like the people with kids usually take, and I thought they’d tell her to get to the end of the line, but no, they let her push her way into the store in front of everyone else who had been waiting ages, she was obviously over seventy, probably thought she looked a lot younger because she had dyed black hair but was obviously over seventy, i thought people that age were supposed to stay in, not even go out for shopping?
I was glad to see the lovely staff at Waitrose have visors to wear over their faces, at least it gives them some protection and there are markers on the floor to make sure no one stands too close, yet in the large Co Op in Ryde there is no protection like that for the poor beleaguered staff there,
Maybe that lady about 70 years old, lives alone and has no one to shop for her.
She didn’t have to push past everyone to get into the store first no matter how old she is
Maybe she lives alone, maybe not, the fact is the government instructed everyone over seventy to not go out, not for any reason, not even to get exercise or to get shopping, and to phone one of the numbers provided if they had no one to shop for them.
Also one is supposed to only shop for essentials, this woman was putting potted plants in her trolley (so hardly “essentials”) and pushing closely past everyone as she wound her way up through the long queue until she got to the top and then just tried to walk through everyone to get in, until she was stopped by the security, who made her change her trolley to the type they wanted us to all use. Then she just pushed past the man waiting at the front and walked into the store unchallenged, when they really should have told her to go to the end of the queue, she could certainly move quick enough and looked fit and healthy, just obviously over seventy
I also saw another person who is a resident of a care home not far from there, they were also shopping in there when they are at the age that are supposed to be in to protect themselves, and I was surprised that a resident of a care home is just allowed out like that when the staff surely know of the instructions to keep people over seventy safe.
It has always amazed me how the government gets the people to blame each other for what is actually governmental failure. We will undoubtedly be the worst effected country but when you compare us to Germany for instance who have a test and traced policy from day one of this outbreak and geared up an already very effective healthcare system it’s little wonder their loss of life is low and ours already surpassing most in Europe.
Reading these comments everyone is focusing on what your neighbours are doing, have you forgotten your politicians stating not many weeks ago “our NHS is ready for anything” when in fact it has been run down and underfunded for years.
The fact is there will be more deaths In the uk as well as on the island.
The government has painted themselves into a corner by there last minute (plan Z) lock yourselves away approach.
Do you think the government care what you think? Or even about you? You have a shock coming to you.
All seams a bit hush hush to me what else arnt we being told mmmmmm
Careful nige, you are on the edges of being a conspiracy person,a nutter,that thinks there is an agenda. Steady, now put the BBC on or better still go to the government website, because that’s where you will get the truth from,as always .watching with interest.
Mr justice, A Government website, the BBC AND truth? is that possible. I remember all the rubbish relating to “protect and survive” in the event of a nuclear holocaust, or more recently a Tory MP force feeding his daughter a hamburger to demonstrate that mad cow disease would not cross over to humans. Sadly it did and more sadly his poor daughter was a vegetarian!
All very sad. I’m not sure you got sarcasm here my friend. If you have noticed my previous posts on this subject ( as very sad as it is) you would see I’m far from believing anything the bbc say or the government. If your over 50 like my self, life experience tells you what lies the government has produced in the past. I’m not denying a virus, only the way it’s being manipulated. Watching with interest
Thanks mr justice, got you now…I’ve been under house arrest too long and run out of beer! x
They maybe waiting to get in contact with relatives. Any delay is either this or an issue with death certificate. Stop reading too much into it. No conspiracy here…
Is the increase due to people still not adhering to the lockdown guidelines? I know a lot of people have been seen partying together in private gatherings, or so I am told. If this is true you all have the blood of these people on your hands.
That kind won’t worry over the ‘blood on their hands’ so long as a joint is in one, and a beer awaiting.
Such is the youth in the UK, created by weak laws, and mostly by making parent(s) ‘better off’ by having children that are not really wanted, but because the state provides a home and income, getting pregnant for someone who would never otherwise do ‘well’ in life anyway, is a ‘good choice’ now.
Fact
If choosing to have a child meant the womb owner was financially worse off, was less likely to have a home provided, and had to spend more time looking after it rather than the Government paid support of nurseries etc from 3 upwards, then the free contraception may used more often.
Labour made being a mum a career choice. And once you are in this situation it is hard to get out. I know a few that want to and could work 40 hours but would be worst off and so work just 20.