Greater London is rapidly becoming the epicentre of this in the UK - which is hardly surprising given the population density there. Hampshire is an interesting one though that rather stands out - I wonder what's going on there (or  "here" I should say, as I live there   !).

The answers to your question are Southampton and Portsmouth both major ports. Meanwhile next door in Dorset we have one of the fewest cases.

They are probably more reliable than ours!

Gavin, these daily numbers are really helpful.

What were Southwarks numbers yesterday. They seems to have gone up alot. London numbers are a significant concern now.

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A little light at the end of an awfully long tunnel still - worth also noting that some deaths in today's update from Italy are backdated from a few days ago

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Coronavirus in Emilia-Romagna: another 109 dead and 754 infections. "But serious cases decrease"

 The daily bulletin counts 754 cases of positivity to Covid-19 in the region and 109 more deaths. The victims are 640 in total and almost six thousand infected. The average percentage is 14.6% more: less than yesterday, more than the previous days.

That of the province of Bologna (excluding the Imola area of ​​Medicina) remains higher: 19.5% stable compared to Thursday's data. In the metropolitan city of Bologna the age of the deceased ranges from 66 to 100 years: two in Medicina (80 and 81), one in Castenaso (100), two in Bologna (96 and 93), Crevalcore (77), Valsamoggia (66), one in Imola (90). In Emilia-Romagna - the situation is officially updated on Friday 20 March - I am overall at Coronavirus 5,968 cases of positivity, 754 more than yesterday's update. However, the samples reported went from 18,344 to 20,753, 2,409 more tests carried out than yesterday. These are data ascertained at 12 noon, on the basis of institutional requests.

Overall, 2,491 people are in solitary confinement at home because they have mild symptoms that do not require hospital treatment, or without symptoms (295 more than yesterday); those admitted to intensive care are instead 267 (7 more than yesterday). And healings rise to 239 (62 more than yesterday's 177).

Unfortunately, however, the number of deaths also increased, from 531 to 640 : 109, therefore, the new ones, including 36 women and 73 men. But above all for the provinces of Parma and Reggio Emilia, a part of the deaths relates to the past few days, people for whom the outcome of the Covid-19 swab test was expected. For the majority of the deceased, investigations are underway to check whether previous, even multiple, pathologies were present. The new deaths concern 27 residents in the province of Piacenza, 39 in that of Parma, 19 in that of Reggio Emilia, 11 in that of Modena, 8 in that of Bologna(of which 2 from the Imola area), 3 in Forlì, 1 in Rimini and 1 in Ferrara.

"Serious cases are falling"

Commissioner ad acta Sergio Venturi : "Not to gild the pill, but I must clarify that thirty of the 109 deaths today date back to the past few days, because we expected the results of the epidemiological tests in Parma and Reggio Emilia. We will try to keep the bill up to date. Punctually. The deaths of the last day are therefore seventy like the previous day ".

"In the next few days - Venturi reasons - we will reach the peak, bad news for health professionals who will have to work hard. However, it would be very positive to have confirmation that the efforts made have given a result. I hope that in the coming days we will strengthen that that we see in some areas, that is, that there are fewer serious cases that arrive at the hospital.

 

https://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/03/20/news/coronavirus_emilia-romagna_20_marzo-251778485/

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The Hampshire total excludes Southampton and Portsmouth as they are unitary authorities.

Hampshire: 107
Southampton: 7
Portsmouth: 13
Ceremonial county of Hampshire total: 127

Of course Hampshire is the single largest local authority in terms of population, with 1.376 million people. Southampton has approximately 256,000 and Portsmouth 288,000.

Hampshire has 78 cases per million. Southwark has 318,000 people and 346 cases per million.

Telford and Wrekin, North East Lincolnshire, and Rutland, all still on 0 cases. 

We live close to both Essex and Hertfordshire so I'm watching all three counties.

So far: Cambridgeshire 16 (650k), Essex 43 (1.4m), Hertfordshire 61 (1.2m).

Given both Essex and Herts figures will cover the main commuter belt I reckon there are still virtually no cases round here so far. I'm trying to adjust our behaviour in accordance with the data; at some point I expect to have to shift to on-line grocery shopping.

ROFL!!!!!

Yes and myself I pay £800 a month for my franchise and only then do I start earning. Nothing as yet to helpful industry as we’re all self employed. 
With so much going on talking about money seems wrong but my landlord may have different ideas about that.

All based on pretty meaningless figures to be honest.

Until we know the true underlying rate of infection in each country, the death rate is not a meaningful statistic at all.

I have reservations about that depiction. Surely deaths per 100k or 1m of the population is a better measure?  Also, why only measure from the 10th death? What's the rationale for that?

Don't you have a 'force majeure' clause in your franchise agreement? "unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from fulfilling a contract"

I would hope it's there as it is designed to cover exactly this type of situation.  You can't operate because of the virus; completely unforseeable.

We can't know the underlying rate of infection because the testing and reporting in each country varies widely so the numbers quoted are meaningless. The number of deaths is more reliable but not infallible if countries only record it as a co-morbidity.

Following the trajectory of the death rate at least gives you an idea of how many ICU beds - and coffins - you are likely to need.

Our data availability is much worse. Most countries publish daily hospital admissions for covid19, ICU admissions, discharges etc. 

We don't. 

Agreed.

We can’t even report on time, and coherently.

The figures for China and Iran are produced by the ghost of Comical Ali, but never mind, nobody is perfect..

My school is staying open on one site, other site closed. Staff from both sites to work at the open one where they will look after key worker/vulnerable children.

All fair enough except staff will outnumber children and some staff (we are all classed as key workers) will have to send their kids to a school to be looked after so they can look after the children of others. Stupid.

Yeah, we heard that a lot for China, but let's see where they are in a month's time. Their biggest problems will probably be reduced exports to the west and increased imports of corona from the west. The vast majority of their people will be back to normal. 

Good luck with that. I tried it this morning. Even if you can get onto the websites there are no delivery slots. Most are not accepting new customers.

No chance of China getting back to normal anytime soon. Anyhow, some wizeguys have come up with the following amusing video - very funny and polished, just like a baked and polished turd pretending to be a piece of art in the Tate Modern:

I will post my reply to my brother shortly.

Local supermarket has just announced it is shortening its opening hours. It's like watching a disaster movie with things decaying steadily on a daily basis. 

Sure if you plot deaths as a fraction of population the data would look much worse for us.

At the start of the epidemic there is noise from isolated cases.

Presumably they are taking 10th death as the start of the large scale spread so then you see the true epidemic trajectory.