This feature service contains COVID-19 data automatically updated from the Public Health England (PHE) API service, daily. Using this API, this service takes the current day request minus two days. Therefore the data will always be two days behind. This is a result of the delay between PHE's specimen date and reporting date.The Polygon Layers, which all contain spatial data, provide information about the latest cumulative figures at three geographies; Local Authority, Regions and Nations. The Tables, which are not spatially aware, provide historical data for each feature. The format of these tables allow you to use the Join tool with the Polygon Layers and create a time enabled layer. This can be used within a dashboard or on the animation tool to view patterns over time.
These reports summarise the surveillance of influenza, COVID-19 and other seasonal respiratory illnesses.
Weekly findings from community, primary care, secondary care and mortality surveillance systems are included in the reports.
This page includes reports published from 14 July 2022 to 6 July 2023.
Previous reports on influenza surveillance are also available for:
View previous COVID-19 surveillance reports.
In early-February 2020, the first cases of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom (UK) were confirmed. As of December 2023, the South East had the highest number of confirmed first episode cases of the virus in the UK with 3,180,101 registered cases, while London had 2,947,727 confirmed first-time cases. Overall, there has been 24,243,393 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK as of January 13, 2023.
COVID deaths in the UK COVID-19 was responsible for 202,157 deaths in the UK as of January 13, 2023, and the UK had the highest death toll from coronavirus in western Europe. The incidence of deaths in the UK was 297.8 per 100,000 population as January 13, 2023.
Current infection rate in Europe The infection rate in the UK was 43.3 cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days as of March 13, 2023. Austria had the highest rate at 224 cases per 100,000 in the last week.
For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.
As of January 12, 2023, COVID-19 has been responsible for 202,157 deaths in the UK overall. The North West of England has been the most affected area in terms of deaths at 28,116, followed by the South East of England with 26,221 coronavirus deaths. Furthermore, there have been 22,264 mortalities in London as a result of COVID-19.
For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.
The data reflects the first 35 weeks of operation of NHS Test and Trace in England since late March 2020.
Testing:
Contact tracing:
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Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on young people and schools, including analysis of face coverings and remote learning, and breakdowns by age and sex where possible. Indicators from the Schools Infection Survey.
Following a trial run and official release on the 24th of September 2020, the NHS COVID-19 app has been downloaded more than 29 million times in England and Wales, as of December 2021. Developed to complement the NHS Test & Trace in England and the Test, Trace and Protect program in Wales, the app is aimed at increasing the speed and accuracy of contact tracing, and includes features such as local area alerts and venue check-in.
NHS COVID-19 app usage Between the beginning of June 2021 and the end of July 2021, the number of COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom started rising again, reaching the peak of 54,674 on the 21st of July. In the previous week, it was reported that more than 600 thousand users of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales had received a self-isolation alert or “ping,” causing what has been since renamed by the media as a “pingdemic.” The NHS COVID-19 app, which works using Bluetooth technology, registers the devices that the users have been in proximity of, and is programmed to send alerts to all the traced contacts in case the app users test positive for coronavirus. While the app’s tracing measurements are currently being reviewed to decrease the number of alerts sent, two in 10 users have reported switching off the app’s contact tracing function. Moreover, according to a survey of online users in Great Britain, only 22 percent of the online users who have the app are using it correctly, while one in ten reported deleting the app altogether.
Travel health pass and COVID-19 apps In 2021, the rolling out of vaccination plans worldwide prompted health institutions and travel companies to start releasing new apps or updating their current ones to function as health passports. With close to 5,7 million downloads in the first half of 2021, the NHS app was the most downloaded app used to show digital certifications. The CovPass app, which is available to residents in Germany, followed with more than 5.56 million downloads as of the second quarter of 2021. According to a February survey of travelers worldwide, the main concerns over the use of digital health passports related to security risks over personal data being hacked and privacy protection.
According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) as of April 2022, 246 thousand people in the South East of England were estimated to be suffering long COVID symptoms, the highest number across the regions in the UK. In the North West of England a further 218 thousand people were estimated to have long COVID.
The data includes:
case rate per 100,000 population
case rate per 100,000 population aged 60 years and over
percentage change in case rate per 100,000 from previous week
percentage of individuals tested positive
number of individuals tested per 100,000
number of deaths within 28 days of positive COVID-19 test
NHS pressures by Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP)
See the detailed https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/" class="govuk-link">data on hospital activity.
See the detailed https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2.147263479.1740796664.1616002078-1961839927.1610968060" class="govuk-link">data on the progress of the coronavirus pandemic. This includes the number of people testing positive, case rates and deaths within 28 days of positive test by upper tier local authority.
See the latest lower-tier local authority watchlist. This includes epidemiological charts containing case numbers, case rates, persons tested and positivity at lower-tier local authority level.
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Findings from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey for England.
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Pre-existing conditions of people who died due to COVID-19, broken down by country, broad age group, and place of death occurrence, usual residents of England and Wales.
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Estimates of differences in coronavirus (COVID-19) mortality risk by self-reported disability status for deaths occurring up to 9 March 2022, using linked data from the Office for National Statistics’ Public Health Data Asset.
Collated set of UK health indicators from the Esri UK National Data Service. These have been made available for a limited period to support COVID-19 responses.This set of health data covers prevalences of a range of conditions many of which are believed to place individuals at greater should they catch the COVID-19 virus. In addition some information on care home locations and their number of beds is presented. Sources are England only and are taken from the PHE fingertips system and the Care Quality Commission website. The data is presented across a set of geographical areas from Care home and GP locations through Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) to England level.
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To record the information required to evaluate the potential risk of Covid-19 infection, as part of professional screening or self-assessment.
This is based on - The current NHS-111 UK self-assessment app at https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19 - A similar risk assessment app developed for pre-hospital admission by DIPS.no - Public Health England COVID-19: investigation and initial clinical management of possible cases https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-initial-investigation-of-possible-cases
The exact risk factors are subject to continual update as the disease progresses.
Note that a critical part of the information, exposure locations, has been left open, so as to allow the list to be updated very regularly and in alignment with local or national policy.
We have decided to leave in 'older' questions such as 'Exposure to birds in China' until such time that we get clear professional guidance that these are no longer necessary or useful.
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The Public Health Research Database (PHRD) is a linked asset which currently includes Census 2011 data; Mortality Data; Hospital Episode Statistics (HES); GP Extraction Service (GPES) Data for Pandemic Planning and Research data. Researchers may apply for these datasets individually or any combination of the current 4 datasets.
The purpose of this dataset is to enable analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 by multiple factors such as ethnicity, religion, disability and known comorbidities as well as age, sex, socioeconomic and marital status at subnational levels. 2011 Census data for usual residents of England and Wales, who were not known to have died by 1 January 2020, linked to death registrations for deaths registered between 1 January 2020 and 8 March 2021 on NHS number. The data exclude individuals who entered the UK in the year before the Census took place (due to their high propensity to have left the UK prior to the study period), and those over 100 years of age at the time of the Census, even if their death was not linked. The dataset contains all individuals who died (any cause) during the study period, and a 5% simple random sample of those still alive at the end of the study period. For usual residents of England, the dataset also contains comorbidity flags derived from linked Hospital Episode Statistics data from April 2017 to December 2019 and GP Extraction Service Data from 2015-2019.
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Initial estimates of prevalence of ongoing symptoms following coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in staff and pupils from the COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey across a sample of schools, within selected local authority areas in England. This Schools Infection Survey is jointly led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Public Health England and the Office for National Statistics.
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Self-reported COVID-19 infections and other respiratory illnesses, including associated symptoms and health outcomes. Joint study with the UK Health Security Agency. These are official statistics in development.
The data includes:
case rate per 100,000 population
case rate per 100,000 population aged 60 years and over
percentage change in case rate per 100,000 from previous week
number of people tested and weekly positivity
NHS pressures by Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP)
More detailed epidemiological charts and graphs are presented for areas in very high and high local COVID alert level areas.
See the https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/" class="govuk-link">detailed data on hospital activity.
See the https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2.188337198.720307617.1611233387-1961839927.1610968060" class="govuk-link">detailed data on the progress of the coronavirus pandemic.
Published 22 January 2021
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Provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales, including deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19), by local authority, health board and place of death in the latest weeks for which data are available. The occurrence tabs in the 2021 edition of this dataset were updated for the last time on 25 October 2022.
The British Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index identifies areas in the UK where people might be more vulnerable to the effects of Covid-19. The Index looks at clinical vulnerability, wider health and wellbeing, and socioeconomic vulnerability.Click here for more details.The data sources for this application are as follows:British Red Cross Vulnerability Index by Local Authority DistrictBritish Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index by Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) in EnglandBritish Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index by Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) in WalesBritish Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index by Intermediate Zone in ScotlandBritish Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index by Super Output Area in Northern IrelandIndex of Multiple Deprivation 2015 (England)Index of Multiple Deprivation 2016 (Scotland)
This feature service contains COVID-19 data automatically updated from the Public Health England (PHE) API service, daily. Using this API, this service takes the current day request minus two days. Therefore the data will always be two days behind. This is a result of the delay between PHE's specimen date and reporting date.The Polygon Layers, which all contain spatial data, provide information about the latest cumulative figures at three geographies; Local Authority, Regions and Nations. The Tables, which are not spatially aware, provide historical data for each feature. The format of these tables allow you to use the Join tool with the Polygon Layers and create a time enabled layer. This can be used within a dashboard or on the animation tool to view patterns over time.