Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Here's the graphs for today's #Covid19Cymru figures. Not good - at all. A "circuit breaker" really is needed, if not more.

Whatever the cause of the high number of cases and deaths reported today (946 & 10 respectively), they are the highest and second highest respectively, in this second peak.

To put Cardiff's 214 new cases into perspective: That's more than Ceredigion has had in total (since March - 163). It seems to me that local lockdown isn't working there.

We are in the first stages of a long anti-encryption march by the upper echelons of the European Union, headed directly toward Europeans’ digital front-doors.
" Orders from the Top: The EU’s Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption

The local authority tables show two authorities getting into triple figures today. Here are the top 6.
110: Cardiff
100: RhCT
55: Swansea
51: Fflint
48: Wrecsam
32: Neath PT

Only three authorities achieve single figures today:
5: Torfaen
3: Ceredigion
1: Pembrokeshire

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Aberystwyth university are publishing their daily cases, which is a brave move (and to be applauded). There is 1 case today; there were none yesterday. As they say, these figures are not dependent on where the student lives, but most presumably have a GP in Ceredigion.
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/important-info/living-and-learning-in-aberystwyth-2020-21/covid-19-case-numbers/

#BenJennings on the #UK's differing #coronavirus restrictions – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2020/oct/11/ben-jennings-on-the-uks-differing-coronavirus-restrictions-cartoon

#Politics #Satire #Covid-19 #Pandemic #Escher

Sorry I haven't had much time this weekend to keep up with the #Covid19Cymru figures here.
Yesterday was a very bad day - with 21 deaths reported. One might immediately guess that these represented an unreported backlog - and one would be correct (Cwm Taf Morgannwg apparently being the culprits). Nonetheless, it still comes as a bit of a shock, and is the highest daily death figure reported since 13th May.
Today is more normal (for recent times) - 2.
7-day average now 5.57
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In terms of #Covid19Cymru new cases, they are at the second lowest since last Sunday. Which merely tells us that fewer cases get reported on a Sunday. It's a modest increase on last Sunday (467, up from 432).

46: Cardiff
42: Bridgend
36: RhCT
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28: Neath PT
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5: Merthyr
3: Pembs
1: Ceredigion
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