I don't regard this as a party political issue in any way - it is however an issue of competence. I am surprised that the government has not acted more decisively, particularly when it comes to foreign travel and those returning from abroad (particularly from countries with an epidemic). I would be surprised if the figures for this country were accurate and as some have pointed out, for obvious reasons fewer tests would be carried out on a Sunday. I am concerned about flights from the USA too - in the UK we have been carrying out far more tests per head of population than most, but the USA is well behind the curve on that one.

We shall see.

Agreed. No need to pay them either - all reasonable people would agree to it.

Germany 900 cases not one death.

German, Sweden, Norway and Belgium combined almost 1500 cases and not one death.

The majority ot of the country's with cases have fewer than 2 deaths.. 

Iran, China, Italy making up most of the death's with only 129/3811 globally outside of those countries.

%'age of UK tested giving a positive result has, over the past 10 days, gone:

0.20%

0.93%

0.28%

2.85%

1.24%

2.25%

2.13%

3.83%

3.26%

3.18%

It was a visualisation of a basic and uncontroversial principle FFS.

Some heavyweight individuals succumbing, possibly because of skiing holidays:

The deputy governor of the Swedish central bank, Martin Floden, has tested positive for coronavirus, a bank spokeswoman is quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.

The chief executive of Groupe ADP, the company which runs the two main international airports in Paris - Charles de Gaulle and Orly - has tested positive for the coronavirus, the group said.

How your data looks on a basic Excel plot: 

Indeed. Either they no more than a bunch of weather geeks on an internet forum or we'll find out not in due course.

It seems that Boris and Trump are playing this the same way:

Donald Trump

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

Another French MP too. Surely it suggests tens of thousands or more are inflected in a number of European countries. Here in the UK it may be between 5000 and 50000. Until random testing is introduced we can't be at all confident. 

I'm not particularly surprised. Its all been about 'crowd management' from day 1 and every government partakes in it to varying degrees.

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020

Again there is not much evidence of this. The main difference between Italy and other European countries is that Italy has a big and highly concentrated cluster in Lombardy with local hospitals overwhelmed and a partial inability to transfer critical cases to other ICUs around the country.

Give it 10 days and then look at the stats. 

Just to give an example: the man who died in Milton Keynes last week was under mechanical ventilation and when he took off his mask, he asphyxiated. At least this is what the family was told by the hospital according to the Guardian.

Spain up to around 1,000 - near doubling from yesterday. Madrid particularly affected.

And there's 3,000 Atletico fans travelling to Liverpool for Wednesday's game

This should concern all who are worried about CO2 emissions and global warming - European Ghost Flights:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-airlines-run-empty-ghost-flights-planes-passengers-outbreak-covid-2020-3?r=US&IR=T

If the EU wanted to do something worthwhile, it would lift the requirements to land planes or lose landing slots:

• Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights during the coronavirus outbreak because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots.


• Some airlines have wasted thousands of gallons of fuel flying the empty planes into and out of Europe.


• Demand for flights has collapsed worldwide, with one airline-industry group saying the outbreak could wipe out up to $113 billion in sales.


• UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps wrote to flight regulators demanding that the "use it or lose it" rules be suspended to stop the ghost flights.

 More on this:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/airlines-are-flying-empty-planes-to-keep-slots-during-the-coronavirus-crisis-c8w33vzqg

"...

Under European Union laws, airlines must operate 80 per cent of their allocated airport slots under normal circumstances or risk losing them to a competitor — the so-called 80/20 rule. It still applies to the UK under the terms of the Brexit transition agreement.

One UK airline told The Times that without a relaxation of the rules it would have to operate 32 flights over the next three weeks with an average of only 40 per cent of seats filled. In all, it would fly with more than 5,200 empty seats during that period.

Mr Shapps said that some planes were being flown with no passengers at all to satisfy the rules.

..."

Just look at the official Italian map, most of the country has widely spread cases with only a gradual increase day per day. This is similar to what is happening in the UK and most other European countries. Look though at the big cluster in Lombardy, a small and densely populated area. The vast majority of deaths are from that area.

Surreal. The match should be played behind closed doors or postponed. 

Absolutely incredible. 

Spain appears to have gone into maximum overdrive.