Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

First the (relatively) good #Covid19Cymru news. There was just one death recorded today.
Now the bad news. There were 638 new cases. That's the second highest recorded (second only to yesterday), meaning that the 7-day average upward increase in cases continues.
Table top and bottom:

88: Cardiff
62: RhCT
48: Swansea
39: Caerffili (disappointing - lockdown had seemed to be working there)
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5: Ceredigion
5: Monmouthshire
4: Pembs
3: Môn

The first double-figure number of deaths #Covid19Cymru since 17th June should be setting alarm bells ringing. It's only slight consolation that it comes after 2 days (weekend figures) which saw no deaths, so the reality is probably that these 10 were spread over a few days.

More hope is to be found in the total cases figure - at 425, the lowest for 5 days (but still higher than any before that).

Top of the table:
44: Cardiff
40: RhCT
40: Wrecsam
40: Fflint

1/2

Bottom of the table:
1: Ceredigion
1: Pembs
1: Newport (!)

Notable:
Carms (inc Llanelli - under local lockdown): 4
Gwynedd (not under lockdown): 21

It appears the recently locked down areas are still rising, whilst those under lockdown for longer are now decreasing.
So the good news there is that lockdowns seem to be working. But the message might be that we should be thinking about wider restrictions now.

2/2

We have another increase in the number of cases of #Covid19Cymru today. 596 total. Deaths are 0 for the second day in a row - but remember this is the weekend's figures, which usually see under-reporting.

Top of the table:
Cardiff: 91
RCT: 77
Swansea: 59

There'll be concern that the figures are still this high in lockdown areas.

Nowhere has zero. Bottom of the table:
Conwy: 4
Môn: 5

Carms is back up - to 20 (likely mostly Llanelli).

Deaths total: 1630
7-day average: 2.57

In the earlier stages of the #Covid19Cymru outbreak, I didn't take much notice of the number of cases. There was no point; testing was completely unreliable, and many people (myself included) could not get a test when needed.
However, although testing is still not perfect, there is more consistency than before, and it's worth noting the figures.
So this is where we are now. No obvious exponential developing (ie it's not out of control yet), but it's still worrying.

@gerald_leppert We created our own community at FediScience, there were many accounts created, but only few of them are actually used. So it may be that many are inactive from the start.

We should somehow study why these people left, never got started, that may be more important for growth than attracting new people.

With 576 new cases, the #Covid19Cymru stats are starting to look more concerning. There is a suggestion that today's high figure could be due to problems earlier in the week with testing results coming in late, but it's not clear to me if that applied to Wales, or was just an England problem.
Although figures are still too low to be sure, the increase may be turning exponential again.
Deaths 5.
7-day average: 2.57 (highest since 9th August; last time it was higher was 5th July)
Total: 1630

#Covid-19 diagnoses in the #UK had been running at around 7000 over the week. Today there was an increase of nearly 13000.

#Pandemic #Coronavirus

Looking for a service that monitors all my watched GitHub repositories for new releases - and ideally provides them as an RSS feed.

There must be... something?

#followerpower

@iankenway off topic: i first read "sharting data" 🤦‍♀️