{"id":6311,"date":"2020-05-01T03:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2020-05-01T03:18:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:18:03","slug":"new-covid-19-heat-maps-to-protect-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/new-covid-19-heat-maps-to-protect-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW COVID-19 HEAT MAPS TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an Australian first, heat maps pinpointing COVID-19 cases by postcode will now show how many people have recovered from the virus, the estimated number of active local cases and number of tests completed.<br \/>\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian said the de-identified NSW Health data would help inform the community about COVID-19 testing and recovery rates across the state.<br \/>\n\u201cNSW has one of the highest COVID-19 testing rates in the world. We have tested more than 200,000 people and have capacity to test more than 110,000 in a fortnight,\u201d Ms Berejiklian said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis new way of showing NSW Health data will help communities understand the numbers of people being tested, and encourage more people with symptoms to come forward for testing when they see the impact COVID-19 is having on their local area.<br \/>\n\u201cIt also provides encouraging data showing how people are bouncing back from the virus.\u201d<br \/>\nMinister for Customer Service Victor Dominello said the heat maps build on the transparency of existing data and will help the community stay informed.<br \/>\n\u201cProviding these heat maps to the public makes NSW a leader in the delivery of live information about COVID-19,\u201d Mr Dominello said.<br \/>\n\u201cAt this point in time, it shows the community is rising to the challenge and doing the right thing by our State.\u201d<br \/>\nThis data reveals the positive effect of the NSW Government\u2019s communication and testing efforts focussed on hot-spot clusters.<br \/>\nFor instance, in Liverpool there was less than 1,000 tests a month ago but that has climbed to more than 2,600 at recent count.<br \/>\nIn Orange, where confirmed cases reached 10, NSW Health has tested more than a thousand people which has helped slow any increase in cases.<br \/>\nThe tool provides a colour representation of the total cumulative cases across postcodes. The darker shades indicate the most cases.<br \/>\nThe heat map can be accessed at: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/covid-19\/find-facts-about-covid-19\">https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/covid-19\/find-facts-about-covid-19<\/a>\u00a0and for further COVID-19 information visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/\">www.nsw.gov.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Australian first, heat maps pinpointing COVID-19 cases by postcode will now show how many people have recovered from the virus, the estimated number of active local cases and number of tests completed. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the de-identified NSW Health data would help inform the community about COVID-19 testing and recovery rates across &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/new-covid-19-heat-maps-to-protect-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NEW COVID-19 HEAT MAPS TO PROTECT COMMUNITIES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}