中国留学生成英国网红！每天更新疫情数据图，获英国卫生部点赞
“英国民众需要了解疫情趋势”
看到当时的英国还未采取足够的行动，有统计知识背景的吴芃当天就在该条数据通告下发布了一张英国确诊病例的趋势图表，结果收获了当日最高关注和点赞量。
“At that time, the total was 115 cases and I knew that because at that time the Government wasn’t taking much action it definitely meant the real number would be higher.”
“当时（3月5日），英国共有115例确诊病例，但我清楚，当时政府没有采取足够的防疫措施，这意味着实际感染人数肯定会更高。”
Back on March 5 as life was continuing relatively as normal in the UK despite rising concern about the spread of coronavirus, Leeds University masters student Peng Wu decided to start charting the growth in cases in this country to help people better understand what was happening with the epidemic.
3月5日，尽管病毒扩散引发的担忧与日俱增，但英国人还在过着相对正常的日子。那天，利兹大学的研究生吴芃决定用图表记录英国确诊病例的增长，帮助人们更好地了解疫情。
Peng’s intention was simple. “What I do every day is to draw a chart based on publicly available government data in a timely manner so that everyone can understand the growth trend more clearly,” he explains. “Insisting on doing this every day actually encourages everyone to continue to pay attention to the epidemic.”
吴芃的想法很简单。他解释说：“我每天做的就是根据公开的政府数据及时绘制图表，这样每个人都能更清楚地看到增长趋势。我每天坚持这样做，实际上可以鼓励大家持续关注疫情。”
吴芃来了！
我每天就是等着吴芃的一条推文。
现在是吴芃闪光的时刻了。
你可能迟到3600小时，而吴芃永远准时。
吴芃芃芃芃……
为什么利兹大学的吴芃要制作英国疫情趋势图？
He set up a notification system to be alerted to the public release of the day's figures and was soon publishing his updated daily graph within moments of the Government's figures becoming available, winning him ever-increasing plaudits from health professionals and ordinary social media users alike as the crisis has worsened. 他建立了通知系统，每天提醒大家关注疫情数据。政府数据一公布，他很快就能公布自制图表。疫情一天天加剧，他得到了越来越多专业人士和社交媒体用户的称赞。 plaudit /'plɔːdɪt/ ：喝彩；赞美
“Every three days or so, the number doubles until something effective is done.”
Speaking before Boris Johnson’s announcement of an effective lockdown of Britain, Peng says he has some sympathy with the UK approach so far - where concerns have been raised both about a lack of widespread testing and delays in taking the type of stringent measures seen in China.
在英国首相鲍里斯颁布有效的封锁措施之前，吴芃说他对目前英国的举措表示同情。英国没有大规模检测，迟迟不采取中国那样严格的防疫措施，这引发了越来越多的担忧。
“Different countries have a different economic and social background so it is very hard for the UK to take action like China did. The Prime Minister said he wished people would follow social distancing but at the weekend you saw many people out chatting with each other and many people went to the park near where I live in Leeds."
“不同的国家有着各自不同的经济和社会环境。所以英国很难采取像中国那样的行动。首相说他希望人们能保持社交距离，但是周末你还是看到很多人在外面聊天，我在利兹住所附近的公园里，还是有很多人聚集。”
随着新冠肺炎疫情在英国日趋严峻，英国高校停课，一些国际留学生选择暂时回国。吴芃选择留在英国。他说，中国驻英国使领馆近日给在英中国留学生发放近20万个防疫“健康包（health kits）”，而在国内的家人也提供了很多实用信息和建议，“这些都有利于我们做好防护，保护自己”。
吴芃说，他没有想到自己的图表引起了这么多关注。他表示自己只是做了“非常简单”的事，他还会继续做下去。
“I will continue to do the updates every day until the tide turns.”
我会每天一直更新下去，直到情况好转。
编辑：陈月华 高启辉
来源：约克郡邮报 澎湃新闻 新华网
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