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Chalfie in reply to @GoatandTricycle

From PHE
When a clinician suspects novel coronavirus (COVID-19), they take samples from the nose, throat and deeper respiratory samples, package and send them safely to PHE Colindale. PHE can provide a laboratory result from this specific virus on the same working day.

As of 01 March at 9am, a total of 11,750 people have been tested in the UK, of which 11,715 were confirmed negative and 35 positive.

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GoatandTricycle in reply to @Chalfie

Thanks, I'd read that but it's not explicit. As presumably some of these people being held in isolation have been tested regardless...?
To my mind it would be helpful if they broke down the positive tests in to subgroups and were recording deaths.

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Chalfie in reply to @GoatandTricycle

You can't do that. You'd be able to work out who exactly a person was then.
Disclosure and all that.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/methodologytopicsandstatisticalconcepts/disclosurecontrol/policyonprotectingconfidentialityintablesofbirthanddeathstatistics

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