69 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed on the Isle of Wight to date, according to the latest official figures.
It has been announced this afternoon (Monday) that the total number of cases now sits at 69 – a rise of just 1 from 68 on Sunday.
The number of deaths on the Island has levelled at 14, with the number of recoveries slightly higher at 15. The local death rate is sitting at around 22%.
Nationally, the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 stands at 124,743 with 16,509 deaths.
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 anxiety is getting worse by the day, I’m so glad I wasn’t living during the two world wars.
I must be a wimp because every time I watch the news and see the death figures I feel sick, God I hope this ends sooner rather than later..
Time to limit my media intake….
Or just time to wake up.
Thank you for your professional diagnosis, I will take lots of caffeine, hopefully I will recover.
Many Thanks Doctor xxx
22% death rate, so, over one in five will die. God help us when we all have to return back to work if these numbers don’t come down.
Those hospital beds will soon fill then. No wonder they have supplied so many. Very frightening times, worse than the war. Just wants one person you eventually work with, or someone they mix with to have not carried out social distancing or correct washing procedure, and a one in five chance of game over.
Yet if we don’t return then the economy will collapse, then causing the NHS to fail completely and people will die of many other illnesses and diseases as well as this.
Wouldn’t want to be in Boris’s shoes, as whatever he does will be hated for such by half the population.
Imagine living like this for another year and a half, a very long bleak winter it will be.
Some of us have worked right through and as long as we follow guidelines it’s not that bad. We just need to keep a perspective on it all and get on with our lives as best we can. Yes obviously it’s awful for people directly affected but we are getting there slowly and we will get through it but the guidelines must stay in place for a while yet.
69 confirmed cases, 14 deaths and 15 recoveries. That leaves 40 confirmed cases ongoing. 22% presumes those 40 people will all recover. Let’s hope they do, or it will be far worse than 22%. As far as completed cases go, it’s almost 50%. 🙁
It’s not even close to 1 in 5. The numbers you are seeing are the people tested that were already so sick and/or vulnerable that they were admitted to, or were already in hospital and died whilst there and infected. You are not seeing the numbers of the 1000’s upon 1000’s that didn’t require medical attention of any kind, the 1000’s that had a few days of the sniffles before recovering, the 1000’s that didn’t show any symptoms at all.
There are a lot of epidemiologists suggesting that for every death, there may well be 1000 infected. So your chances of dying as a result of infection are more likely to be a lot closer to 0.1% than they are 25%.
It’s worse than that as death rate is nearer to 46% as 15 people have recovered and 14 have died, god help us all if levels of infection in the community increase.
Think that may mean 22% of those affected, ie, 14 out of 69. Must admit it’s not reported very well.
Where are the confirmed cases,are all in hospital?
Well lets be honest if everyone done as instructed by the government the numbers wouldnt rise. Wait till 10-14 days time & then you’ll see who went & met people over Easter. I also mean the whole country there not just here.
But I’m fed up of hearing the boy racers flying around & music blaring as normal & you see cars with 4 or 5 people in them, not same family either! People wont learn until it’s one of their family or friends who get covid-19. It the healthy ones with no health problems that think they’re invincible, but they can pass it on to family members who have problems without realising. All because they think it wont get them.
Stay safe, stay home & save lives.
Note how all the related cases are with corona ‘related symptoms’ i.e bog standard flu. It is all a scare tactic. A friend of mine works for the NHS as a paramedic here on the IOW and even he finds it a joke.
I was t going to post anymore on this subject,as I’ve put out the facts and logic thinking ,but still the sheep mentality walks on. I totally agree with what you are saying floran,and after what I have just read on the Reuter’s world news, confirms in my my, all that I have been saying. The news claims, that because of covid19, the flu virus has now all but disappeared,wtf!! 152,000 people died of the flu 2017/2018, and now it’s just disappeared.? How about we just relabel it,covid19! The powers behind all this must think they everyone is dumb, and because the way the world population has reacted to this so called deadly virus, we can tell them anything,and they will believe it. Sorry to reappear on here about this,but I just couldn’t let this b.s go by without notice.
Florian, you maybe interested in the latest from the government Office for National Statistics “Nick Stripe head of Health Analysis at the ONS told the BBC that it is the highest number of deaths in one week since January 2000.
the difference is I wasn’t locked up at home in that year
I’m more worried about what will happen when the kids go back to school. Just getting them to and from school is going to be a challenge! How the hell are they going to keep the kids apart? A lot of the classrooms aren’t big enough.
Ending child tax credits would help for future incidents, as would no longer gaining points for housing if you have a child or more. Then only wanted children, not the hoards of unwanted would be produced usually by the poorest and dimmest in our midst, adding more feral useless to continue the trend for the next generation and so on. Hence more and more until the cycle is broken. Making having a child cost, not ‘pay’ would do that.
As for the answer now, alternate boys one day, girls the next.
As unemployment and poverty will ravish the UK and much of the world, many children will only need to know how to sign their name so as to be able to sign on to gain their benefits now anyway, so many will not require a higher education level anymore.
Florian, you maybe interested in the latest from the government Office for National Statistics “Nick Stripe head of Health Analysis at the ONS told the BBC that up to 10 April 2020, deaths recorded were the highest number of deaths in one week since January 2000.
the difference is I wasn’t locked up at home in that year
So why is wightbay and facebook market place still operating? Is it really essential to be selling a fancy dress matador costume? https://www.wightbay.com/totland-bay/bizarre-bazaar/fancy-dress-matador-costume-5813983/
On Saturday Robert Jenrick said the Turkish PPE would arrive on Sunday, UK only formally asked Turkey for PPE shipment help on Sunday – after telling Britons it was on its way. He is also the chap that lock down doesn’t apply to driving 150 odd miles to/from holiday home.
I had to go into Ryde co op yesterday, and there are arrows plainly on the floor showing which way to go and a man and woman were loitering by the crisps and snacks trying to decide what to get with their alcohol, and just ignoring the arrows and came back the way they’d gone, walking close past me , there was no where i could go to get the right distance away from them, they looked the usual ignorant types who i wouldn’t have felt comfortable pointing out the distance rules to without fear of verbal abuse. Anxiety is terrible when shopping, i forget half of what i went in for and can’t wait to get out of there because of the ignorant people, , at least in Waitrose the customers are usually more thoughtful and adhere to the distancing rules.
Have you ever seen the film ‘Idiocracy’?. Slightly overdrawn perhaps, but still not that much!