Better COVID data on the way at last

Very pleased indeed to hear today that Public Health England is finally changing the way it presents COVID-19 data, to include Pillar 2 (community and home testing) as well as Pillar 1 (laboratory testing) results.

Since the start of testing, 1277 cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Cambridgeshire through Pillar 1 testing, and 901 through Pillar 2.

This is very different to the situation widely reported in Leicester, where Pillar 2 tests identified nine times as many cases as Pillar 1.

Whatever the Government is telling us we can now do, we really do still need to do whatever we can to reduce the chance of spreading the virus and continue to observe social distancing and hand hygiene.

I certainly won’t be going to the pub, or for a haircut, for quite a long time yet.

Meanwhile, anyone with COVID symptoms should book a test on the www.NHS/coronavirus website (or call 119 if they don’t have access to the internet). 

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