PEOPLE in Newport, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen are most likely to flout the lockdown rules in Gwent, latest survey data collected by a health app suggests.
As of Thursday, April 23, six per cent of survey respondents from all three areas said they are not staying indoors, despite the government’s lockdown.
More than 37,000 Evergreen Health users – an app that partners with the NHS so people can access health records and input fitness and wellbeing data – responded to a survey on how they were approaching the lockdown.
The data, which excludes key workers, helped developers build a heat map of how well different parts of the UK are abiding by lockdown rules and staying at home.
In Monmouthshire, five per cent said they would not stay at home.
In Caerphilly, just three per cent said they would not stay at home, making this region of Gwent the least likely to flout lockdown rules.
Respondents were also asked about whether they had displayed any symptoms of the coronavirus with 14 per cent of households in Blaenau Gwent saying they had.
In Torfaen, 13 per cent said they had.
In Caerphilly and Newport, 11 per cent said they had.
Nine per cent of respondents from Monmouthshire said they had experienced symptoms.
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(The heatmap shows where in Gwent people are not staying at home. Picture: Evergreen)
Rest of Wales - not staying at home
Camarthenshire - 3 per cent
Pembrokeshire - 7 per cent
Powys - 5 per cent
Conwy - 2 per cent
Denbighshire - 6 per cent
Flintshire - 4 per cent
Gwynedd - 8 per cent
Isle of Anglesey - 7 per cent
Wrexham - 7 per cent
Bridgend - 7 per cent
Cardiff - 2 per cent
Merthyr Tydfil - 7 per cent
Neath Port Talbot - 4 per cent
Rhondda - 5 per cent
Swansea - 3 per cent
Vale of Glamorgan - 6 per cent
The data, which is anonymous, is being shared with the NHS and data scientists at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester.
It is hoped it will help them analyse the progress of the pandemic.
For an area to appear on the map, it has to have had enough people in the sample sizes for the percentages to be statistically significant.
The app has 750,000 users.
Writing on the app’s website, chief executive Stephen Critchclow, said: "Thanks to Evergreen Life community of users who have helped to create a, publicly-available heat map of people with COVID-19 symptoms, providing a national picture of the outbreak now that mass testing has been put on hold. Viewed over time, the data will reveal both the extent of the symptoms, but also how they may be moving around the UK.
"You can help track the spread of Covid 19 by joining the thousands of people across the UK.
"As always with Evergreen the system is anonymous.”
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