Sonification - Every UK Covid 19 Death by Day - from March 5th 2020 to June 23rd 2020 by Jamie Perera published on 2020-06-05T21:35:21Z Every UK Covid 19 Death by Day - Sonification by Jamie Perera. No. 2 of 3. Every sound you hear represents one death from Covid 19 in the UK. Every 30 seconds represents the timespan of one day, starting from the day of the first recorded death on March 5th. Refer to https://bit.ly/JP-Sonification2-sources timeline as you listen. Statement on Sonification: In this process I collect and catalogue news and media on the days they happen, and represent each death with fragments of audio from these stories. At the time of update there have been 42,927 UK deaths as on gov.uk. To represent each with a single sound has taken 55 minutes. The true estimated figure from ONS excess deaths is nearer 64,000. I am now unmistakably in the thoughts of ‘how’, ‘why’, and ‘who’. But my main wish is to respectfully represent those who have lost their lives. I am interested in honest responses and I hope this work engages us to reflect on what has happened and is still happening around us. Jamie P Genre sonification Comment by Jamie Perera 23rd June - 171 deaths. The government's chief medical adviser has said that a second spike in Covid-19 cases is inevitable if people ignore the conditions that are supposed to apply to the lockdown being relaxed. Speaking at the final Downing St press conference, Whitty said: 'It is absolutely critical people stick to the guidance that has been given. It's a changed guidance for there are still very significant restrictions socially' Boris Johnson ditches 2m physical distancing rule in England for '1m-plus'. Members of two households will be able to dine together from 4 July in latest lockdown easing. 2020-06-24T15:42:21Z Comment by Jamie Perera 22nd June - 15 deaths. People with underlying health issues who are most at risk from Covid-19 will no longer have to shut themselves away in their home and can mix with other people from 6 July in England, the health secretary has said. Support for people who are undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, have a damaged immune system or have had an organ transplant will continue to the end of July, said Matt Hancock. 2020-06-24T15:41:05Z Comment by Jamie Perera 21st June - 43 deaths. Now care homes face a financial crisis after the pandemic: Care Sourcer told Express.co.uk that 25 percent of care homes could go out of business in 2020. According to data from the Care Quality Commission, 2019 saw 600 care homes open but 900 close, leaving a loss of 23,452 beds. Business income from occupancy has been falling throughout the coronavirus pandemic fore a variety of reasons, including residents passing away and lower staff levels to handle newer intakes of clients. 2020-06-24T15:39:57Z Comment by Jamie Perera 20th June - 130 deaths. Tory MPs don't trust Government to lead them out of coronavirus crisis as PM burns through political capital at an ‘alarming rate’. With backbenchers feeling disgruntled and sidelined, the public also seems to have lost faith in the Government. Britain’s longest Covid battler Steve White told today how he is overjoyed to be home after an astonishing 92 days in hospital. The dad-of-two came within a whisker of death when he was given a one percent chance of survival. But his children begged doctors to give him a few more days on the ventilator – and he amazed them all. Steve, 56, went into hospital on March 19 four days before lockdown and only returned home on Thursday. He said tonight: “I want to give hope to others critically ill with Covid and their families. Never give up fighting.” 2020-06-24T15:39:21Z Comment by Jamie Perera 19th June - 173 deaths. The British government's health ministry says it has no record whatsoever of its shambolic attempt to import life-saving personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers from Turkey at the height of the coronavirus crisis. Officials say they do not have a single report or memo about the affair, nor a single email, either generated within the ministry or sent to it. The claim raises concerns that Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) files are going missing in advance of a public inquiry into the UK government's handling of the pandemic. The UK’s chief medical officers have agreed to downgrade the coronavirus threat level to level three, as cases start to decline. The Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) has recommended the threat level be downgraded from level four – an epidemic is in general circulation and transmission is high or rising exponentially. 2020-06-24T15:37:43Z Comment by Jamie Perera 18th June - 135 deaths. THE controversial two-metre social distancing rule appears to have been relaxed after official government guidance told firms they must only follow it “where possible”. Staff told to self-isolate after 58 cases of coronavirus confirmed at chicken factory which supplies M&S and KFC The UK government is being sued over a decision to give a local pest-control firm a £108 million (R2 billion) contract to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus outbreak. On Monday, the nonprofit Good Law Project issued proceedings to launch a judicial review. The group said the government only considered one company, Pestfix, for the contract and is yet to disclose the details. 2020-06-24T15:36:23Z Comment by Jamie Perera 17th June - 184 deaths. England’s ‘World Beating’ System to Track the Virus Is Anything But. Health Minister Lord Bethell asked about the contact tracing app at @CommonsSTC "We're seeking to get something going before the winter, but it isn't the priority at the moment". Confirms it is still the government's intention to introduce it. The UK was today ranked second bottom in a league table of how well the world’s richest nations responded to the coronavirus pandemic. Major coronavirus outbreak hits British meat factory supplying chicken for KFC and M&S as more than 100 workers self-isolate. Half of businesses would have to lay off staff within three months if furlough scheme ended. More than 100,000 carers 'forced to use food banks in UK lockdown'. 2020-06-24T15:35:29Z Comment by Jamie Perera 16th June - 233 deaths. Professor Chris Whitty on breakthrough drug Dexamethasone - "This is the most important trial result for COVID-19 so far. Significant reduction in mortality in those requiring oxygen or ventilation from a widely available, safe and well known drug. Many thanks to those who took part and made it happen. It will save lives around the world". Fullfact confirms that "Yes, patients were discharged to care homes without Covid-19 tests". There was no requirement to test all patients being discharged from hospital into a care home until 15 April 2020, though some trusts were testing patients before that date. More than 16,000 people in UK care homes have died from coronavirus. 2020-06-24T15:34:12Z Comment by Jamie Perera 15th June - 38 deaths. UK pubs and restaurants 'unlikely to reopen before July 4 at the earliest' Queues have formed at stores across England as thousands of non-essential shops open for the first time since March. Customers are being encouraged to go out and spend but to “be sensible”, as the government seeks to begin reopening the economy “gradually and carefully”. Many shops will bring in more spacious floor plans, only allow in a limited number of customers at once and have hand sanitiser stations. Businesses have had to ensure they are “Covid-secure”, and extra precautions they are taking may include deep cleaning stores and putting items that have been tried on or returned in quarantine. Long lines were seen at Primark stores across the country, with dozens of keen shoppers waiting outside branches of the budget clothes store in Birmingham, Derby, Liverpool and Nottingham. 2020-06-24T15:31:17Z Comment by Jamie Perera 14th June - 36 deaths. The Lancet’s editor: ‘The UK response to coronavirus is the greatest science policy failure for a generation’. Richard Horton does not hold back in his criticism of the UK’s response to the pandemic and the medical establishment’s part in backing fatal government decisions Boris Johnson has said people should be able to “shop with confidence” when non-essential stores reopen in England on Monday. Speaking during a visit to the Westfield shopping centre in east London, the Prime Minister said he hoped to see a “gradual” build-up in the numbers of people returning to the high street. “I am very optimistic about the opening up that is going to happen tomorrow,” he said. “I think people should shop and shop with confidence, but they should of course observe the rules on social distancing and do it as safely as possible.” 2020-06-24T15:26:19Z Comment by Jamie Perera 13th June - 181 deaths. UK ranks 191 of 195 countries in lockdown easing readiness study. AN Oxford University study has placed the UK fourth from the bottom of a global league table of countries on preparedness for easing their coronavirus lockdowns. The UK came in 191st place in the study of 195 countries – just below South Sudan. The only countries ranked as less ready to ease their restrictions were Algeria, Nicaragua and Iran. THE number of people who have died with coronavirus in Dorset’s hospitals remains at 152 following today's announcement from NHS England. The county has recorded no new deaths in patients since June 1. Grenfell relative draws comparisons between fire and Covid-19 response. Families of 72 victims of tower block blaze will mark third anniversary of blaze this weekend. 2020-06-24T15:20:12Z Comment by Jamie Perera 12th June - 282 deaths. Bereaved relatives call for immediate inquiry into Covid-19 crisis. Lawyers for 450 people call on Boris Johnson to start public inquiry to help prevent deaths Chief nurse dropped from Downing Street coronavirus briefing ‘after refusing to back Dominic Cummings’ Boris Johnson scrapped a team of Cabinet ministers tasked with protecting the UK from a pandemic six months before coronavirus arrived, a Mail investigation has found. The Government’s ‘anti-pandemic committee’, which included senior ministers Michael Gove, Matt Hancock and Gavin Williamson, was disbanded without discussing virus control plans. The group, officially known as the Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency Committee (THRCC), was supposed to ensure the UK was ready to cope with a pandemic. 2020-06-24T15:13:23Z Comment by Jamie Perera 11th June - 151 deaths. Just weeks after thousands of rough sleepers were housed for lockdown, the Tories are throwing them back on the street. UK begins using dexamethasone to treat patients. Keir Starmer says it is ‘ridiculous’ that betting shops can reopen while schools stay shut. A video has emerged of Rory Stewart being ‘proven right’ when he claimed that Boris Johnson was making the wrong decisions in his response to the coronavirus, which he said appeared to be a strategy of herd immunity. 2020-06-24T15:11:46Z Comment by Jamie Perera 10th June - 245 deaths. The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 among prisons in England and Wales continues to rise, a Ministry of Justice figures shows. Forget the UK's "patient zero", new cases of coronavirus were pouring into the country by the hundreds each week during March, helping to explain why our outbreak grew so large so quickly, new analysis of virus genomes reveals. The study also finds the vast majority of cases arrived in the UK from mainland Europe at a time when much of our travel advice was focused on Asia. At 5pm on Tuesday, 490 prisoners had tested positive for the coronavirus across 80 prisons, a rise of less than 1% in 24 hours, while there were 956 infected staff across 105 prisons, a rise of 0.5% in the same period. There are around 79,800 prisoners across 117 prisons in England and Wales, and around 33,000 staff working in public sector prisons. 2020-06-24T15:07:31Z Comment by Jamie Perera 9th June - 286 deaths. First arrivals under UK quarantine rules: 'They didn't even check my temperature'. UK coronavirus live: excess deaths associated with crisis now at around 64,000, says ONS. Health minister has testy exchange with Sky News Kay Burley and appears to blame scientists for care home crisis. The Government is pressing ahead with some of its plans to ease lockdown, confirming that non-essential shops will be allowed to open from next Monday. But with every Tuesday come the grim figures from the Office for National Statistics revealing the full extent of the grief this virus has caused – today telling us that excess deaths, those above the normal average, are more than 63,000 across the country up to the end of May. 2020-06-24T15:05:34Z Comment by Jamie Perera 8th June - 55 deaths. Britain gives Palantir access to sensitive medical records of Covid-19 patients in £1 deal. The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since before lockdown on 23 March, latest government figures show. A further 55 people died after testing positive with the virus as of 17:00 BST on Sunday, taking the total to 40,597. 2020-06-24T15:04:04Z Comment by Jamie Perera 7th June - 77 deaths. Government coronavirus advisor says UK locked down too late and it's 'cost a lot of lives'. SAGE member Prof John Edmunds' confession comes as Boris Johnson launches a new push to ease the lockdown in the coming weeks - despite scientists' fears and his own alert level remaining at 4. 2020-06-24T15:03:09Z Comment by Jamie Perera 6th June - 204 deaths. British pharma giant 'AstraZeneca' all set to roll out COVID-19 vaccine in September. AstraZeneca has established separate supply chains for the vaccine in Europe, the United States, India and is also looking at setting up production in China. UK coronavirus live: thousands defy warnings to join anti-racism protests. Thousands of protesters rallied in solidarity with Black Lives Matter across the UK. Defying calls from government officials to avoid mass gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic, crowds wore face masks and gloves creating powerful scenes as they demonstrated for an end to systemic racism and demanded racial justice. 2020-06-24T15:01:29Z Comment by Jamie Perera 5th June - 357 deaths. The Tory MP spearheading efforts to promote the Covid-19 contact-tracing app trial on the Isle of Wight appears to have broken lockdown rules at a barbecue also attended by the chairman of the Brexit party and political journalists, the Guardian has learned. Calls for local lockdowns as study finds R value above 1 in north-west England. 2020-06-24T14:19:24Z Comment by Jamie Perera 4th June - 176 deaths. Top GP spells out actions to protect BAME staff after PHE review fails to offer solutions People across almost all the world’s leading rich economies have turned more sceptical about their governments’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic with confidence slumping the most in Britain Face coverings to be made compulsory on public transport in England. Passengers face fines from 15 June for flouting new rule to stop spread of coronavirus. 2020-06-24T14:15:34Z Comment by Jamie Perera 3rd june - 359 deaths. #Newsnight's Political Editor @nicholaswatt talks us through the latest #coronavirus data - “The UK now has more daily deaths from Covid than the rest of the entire EU put together.” Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer at PMQs as Labour leader accuses PM of 'winging it' A cleaner has washed the windows of more than 700 properties for nothing - in a bid to help local firms in the Great Yarmouth area "bounce back" after lockdown. 2020-06-24T14:14:30Z Comment by Jamie Perera 2nd June - 324 deaths. Death rates from COVID-19 are highest among patients from BAME groups, according to a delayed Public Health England (PHE) investigation that reveals the pandemic has replicated and increased existing health inequalities. 2020-06-24T14:11:21Z Comment by Jamie Perera 1st June - 111 deaths. Seven employees at same school test positive for coronavirus as schools reopen across UK. Arboretum Primary School, in Derby, has shut after the positive test results for coronavirus. Alex Andreou: I publish this retrospective to shed light on the “system errors” former WHO official Anthony Costello speaks of that “led us to have probably the highest death rates in Europe.” To criticise the fact that the scientific process, in this case, has been infected by politics. Matt Hancock: "I think these data show that the action plan is working, the data show that we are winning the battle against Coronavirus. Today we are therefore able to make some cautious changes to the lockdown rules, carefully and safely." 2020-06-10T14:33:16Z Comment by Jamie Perera 31st May - 121 deaths. Senior public health officials have made a last-minute plea for ministers to scrap Monday’s easing of the coronavirus lockdown in England, warning the country is unprepared to deal with any surge in infection and that public resolve to take steps to limit transmission has been eroded. The Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) said new rules, including allowing groups of up to six people to meet outdoors and in private gardens, were “not supported by the science” and that pictures of crowded beaches and beauty spots over the weekend showed “the public is not keeping to social distancing as it was”. Dominic Raab says 'we can't just stay in lockdown forever,' amid scientific unease over the easing of some restrictions. Privacy campaigners The Open Rights Group (ORG) are preparing a legal challenge to the NHS’s coronavirus test-and-trace programme as concerns grow about the amount of contact data that will be collected and retained by government. 2020-06-10T14:25:58Z Comment by Jamie Perera 30th May - 226 deaths. England 'risks Covid-19 surge' without test-and-trace safety net. On track and trace system - "We're not highly trained – we've been sitting around doing nothing. This programme is not fit to bring Britain out of lockdown". Britain’s top public health leaders and scientists have warned Boris Johnson that trust in the government has been shattered by the Dominic Cummings affair and now poses real danger to life when lockdown measures are lifted this week. Oliver Dowden: "And sadly, of those who tested positive for Coronavirus across all settings, 38,376 people have now died. That's an increase of 215 fatalities since yesterday. This new figure includes deaths in all settings not just in hospitals. And of course every one of those deaths is a tragedy for the family involved and our thoughts are with all of them." 2020-06-10T14:24:05Z Comment by Jamie Perera 29th May - 373 deaths. Lockdown restrictions lifted before experts ready to lower coronavirus threat level from ‘high’, No 10 admits. Rishi Sunak: "Sadly, of those who tested positive for Coronavirus across all settings, 38,161 people have now died. That's an increase of 324 fatalities since yesterday. Our thoughts as always, are with the family and friends of those who have lost their lives." 2020-06-10T14:22:07Z Comment by Jamie Perera 28th May - 413 deaths. The UK has suffered the second-highest rate of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic after Spain, according to excess mortality figures. The UK has registered 59,537 more deaths than usual since the week ending March 20, indicating that the virus has directly or indirectly killed 891 people per million. Until Thursday, the UK had a higher rate of death than in any country for which high-quality data exist. However, Spain made a revision to its mortality estimates, adding 12,000 to its toll of excess deaths from coronavirus in a one-off adjustment to 43,000. This increased its death rate to 921 per million. The absolute number of excess deaths in the UK is the highest in Europe, and second only to the US in global terms, according to data collected by the Financial Times. Matt Hancock dubbed UK 'Death Secretary' after car crash interview. 2020-06-10T14:20:38Z Comment by Jamie Perera 27th May - 434 deaths. The new NHS coronavirus test and trace programme will launch across England from tomorrow, the Government has announced. The programme is designed to let people know if they have been in close contact with someone who later reports positive for Covid-19 and could be a key to easing up social distancing measures. Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: "As we move to the next stage of our fight against coronavirus, we will be able to replace national lockdowns with individual isolation and, if necessary, local action where there are outbreaks. An increasing number of GPs are experiencing mental health issues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new BMA poll. The UK has performed far fewer tests relative to its population than other badly affected countries, like Italy and Spain. Less than 2 percent of the UK's population has so far been tested for coronavirus. 2020-06-10T14:05:07Z Comment by Jamie Perera 26th May - 136 deaths. Excess UK deaths in Covid-19 outbreak approach 60,000. Data shows Britain has one of world’s highest rates of coronavirus deaths per capita. Monbiot: We have been told repeatedly that the UK was unprepared for this pandemic. This is untrue. The UK was prepared, but then it de-prepared. Last year, the Global Health Security Index ranked this nation second in the world for pandemic readiness, while the US was first. Broadly speaking, in both nations the necessary systems were in place. Our governments chose not to use them. Matt Hancock: "Sadly, of those who've tested positive for Coronavirus across all settings, 37,048 people have now died. Yesterday across the UK 134 deaths were reported." 2020-06-10T14:02:06Z Comment by Jamie Perera 25th May - 121 deaths. Mr Cummings said during his press interview on Monday 25 May: “For years I've warned of the dangers of pandemics. Last year I wrote about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning.” According to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, sometime between 8 April 2020 and 15 April 2020, Mr Cummings’ 2019 blog on pandemics was updated to include a paragraph on SARS.” Cummings: "We agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely. We drove for roughly half an hour, and ended up on the outskirts of Barnard Castle town. We did not visit the castle, we did not go round the town." Chris Jarvis, a power worker, has an emotional homecoming after sleeping in an isolation pod at work for six weeks to help keep the country's power supply on. 2020-06-10T14:00:21Z
