Extremely important story on the @DHSCgovuk refusal to publish local COVID case numbers.

People can’t be responsible without information.

The following two tweets show much better practice in Germany and Italy

1/ https://www.ft.com/content/301c847c-a317-4950-a75b-8e66933d423a">https://www.ft.com/content/3...

In Germany the @rki_de published a detailed daily brief - both in German and English

The German language version is more detailed, but this English version dwarfs the information the UK publishes

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https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/2020-06-30-en.pdf?__blob=publicationFile">https://www.rki.de/DE/Conten...

But the data is available so German third parties can produce timely extremely local information. This from Die Zeit for example

3/ https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/coronavirus-echtzeit-karte-deutschland-landkreise-infektionen-ausbreitung">https://www.zeit.de/wissen/ge...

And in Italy the local case data is also comprehensive and daily - so others can produce great information for the public such as this from Il Sole 24 Ora

4/ https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/en/ ">https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavir...

It seems the government does not trust the UK people with information important for their lives

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