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There are no signs of when the Government will begin sharing weekly breakdowns of the vaccination status of individuals in hospital with covid, nearly four weeks on from them being promised.
Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Dr Ivan Muscat MBE, said at the end of July that a weekly report on the vaccination status of patients could start being published as soon as the following week.
However, nearly a month on, this data is still yet to emerge.
The Government has previously been hesitant to provide information about people in hospital with covid when there are fewer than five, citing concerns that inidivduals may be identifiable.
Pictured: Deputy Medical Officer Dr Ivan Muscat said last month that a report on the vaccination status of those hospitalised with covid could be released as shortly as the following week.
Publishing reports on a weekly, rather than daily, basis, therefore gets over this hurdle, provided there are more than five people in hospital over the course of a week.
Over the past month, the number of people in hospital with covid on any given day has only fallen below five once - to four, on 11 August. Numbers peaked at 21 on 29 July. There are currently nine people in hospital with the illness.
Gibraltar routinely shares generalised details about the ages and vaccination status of its positive cases, and some on social media have called for Jersey to share information in a similar way to help islanders that are continuing to use the island's statistics as a way of gauging risk.
— HM Govt of Gibraltar (@GibraltarGov) August 24, 2021
When asked when the weekly hospital reports can be expected, a Government spokesperson said that Dr Muscat is liaising with those involved to get the data.
Express has now asked the Government why the data had taken he length of time it has, and is awaiting a response.
Dr Muscat last gave information on the ratio of vaccinated versus unvaccinated covid patients in hospital late last month, saying that at that time, it was only a "small proportion" of people who had been fully jabbed that were receiving treatment.
He had also previously provided information about the proportion of people in hospital with covid over the age of 50, and whether they had been admitted to be specifically treated for covid or whether they were there for non-covid reasons but had swabbed positive on admission.
Since Monday 23 August, 44 individuals have recovered and 22 new cases have been identified. 12 cases have been identified through seeking healthcare, 7 through inbound travel and 3 through contact tracing. pic.twitter.com/C84ASOa5nZ
— Government of Jersey (@GovJersey) August 24, 2021
22 new cases of covid were identified between Monday and Tuesday and 44 people had recovered, leaving yesterday's total at 360.
208 people are unwell and showing symptoms, while 152 people are not.
As of last Wednesday 18 August, 75,674 had received their first dose of the covid vaccine, and 71,181 had received their second.
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