Findings from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey for England.

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.

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Information from a new module of questions included in the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW) around perceptions of crime, the police and anti-social behaviour during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, feelings of safety and experiences of harassment. Data on children’s online activity are also presented. These tables are no longer produced.

A survey carried out in the United Kingdom in September 2021 found that 52 percent of respondents did not take any action after encountering what they believed to be false or misleading information on the COVID-19 outbreak. Whilst this figure was lower than the share who said the same in the 2020 survey, taking no action remained the most common response to fake coronavirus news. Meanwhile, 16 percent used a fact checking site or tool to determine whether or not the information they found was true, and 14 percent turned to family or friends for help in confirming the legitimacy of news they suspected to be false.

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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.

A survey carried out in the United Kingdom in September 2021 revealed that the main source used for news on COVID-19 among consumers aged 16 to 24 years old was the BBC, with 51 percent saying that they went to a BBC platform for coronavirus updates in the last week. The same share of respondents in that age group also used social media for COVID-19 information, whereas older consumers were more likely to read newspapers.

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In-depth analysis of Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study data looking at trends in self-reported symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19), including ongoing symptoms and associated risk factors.

A survey carried out in the United Kingdom in September 2021 showed that the most trusted source of news about the COVID-19 pandemic was the NHS, with 91 percent of those aged 16 years or older saying that they trusted information directly from the National Health Service. By contrast, just 21 percent said the same about Facebook.

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Due to changes in the collection and availability of data on COVID-19, this dataset is no longer updated. Latest information about COVID-19 is available via the UKHSA data dashboard. The UK government publish daily data, updated weekly, on COVID-19 cases, vaccinations, hospital admissions and deaths. This note provides a summary of the key data for London from this release. Data are published through the UK Coronavirus Dashboard, last updated on 23 March 2023. This update contains: Data on the number of cases identified daily through Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 testing at the national, regional and local authority level Data on the number of people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 Data on the number of COVID-19 patients in Hospital Data on the number of people who have died within 28 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis Data for London and London boroughs and data disaggregated by age group Data on weekly deaths related to COVID-19, published by the Office for National Statistics and NHS, is also available. Key Points On 23 March 2023 the daily number of people tested positive for COVID-19 in London was reported as 2,775 On 23 March 2023 it was newly reported that 94 people in London died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test The total number of COVID-19 cases identified in London to date is 3,146,752 comprising 15.2 percent of the England total of 20,714,868 cases In the most recent week of complete data (12 March 2023 - 18 March 2023) 2,951 new cases were identified in London, a rate of 33 cases per 100,000 population. This compares with 2,883 cases and a rate of 32 for the previous week In England as a whole, 29,426 new cases were identified in the most recent week of data, a rate of 52 cases per 100,000 population. This compares with 26,368 cases and a rate of 47 for the previous week Up to and including 22 March 2023 6,452,895 people in London had received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 6,068,578 had received two doses Up to and including 22 March 2023 4,435,586 people in London had received either a third vaccine dose or a booster dose On 22 March 2023 there were 1,370 COVID-19 patients in London hospitals. This compares with 1,426 patients on 15 March 2023. On 22 March 2023 there were 70 COVID-19 patients in mechanical ventilation beds in London hospitals. This compares with 72 patients on 15 March 2023. Update: From 1st July updates are weekly From Friday 1 July 2022, this page will be updated weekly rather than daily. This change results from a change to the UK government COVID-19 Dashboard which will move to weekly reporting. Weekly updates will be published every Thursday. Daily data up to the most recent available will continue to be added in each weekly update. Data summary 리소스 CSV phe_vaccines_age_london_boroughs.csv CSV 다운로드 phe_vaccines_age_london_boroughs.csv CSV phe_healthcare_admissions_age.csv CSV 다운로드

Understanding Society, (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

Understanding Society (UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

The Understanding Society COVID-19 Study, 2020-2021 is a regular survey of households in the UK. The aim of the study is to enable research on the socio-economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the short and long term. The surveys started in April 2020 and took place monthly until July 2020. From September 2020 they took place every other month until March 2021 and the final wave was fielded in September 2021. They complement the annual interviews of the Understanding Society study. The data can be linked to data on the same individuals from previous waves of the annual interviews (SN 6614) using the personal identifier pidp. However, the most recent pre-pandemic (2019) annual interviews for all respondents who have taken part in the COVID-19 Study are included as part of this data release. Please refer to the User Guide for further information on linking in this way and for geographical information options.

Latest edition information

For the eleventh edition (December 2021), revised April, May, June, July, September, November 2020, January 2021 and March 2021 data files for the adult survey have been deposited. These files have been amended to address issues identified during ongoing quality assurance activities. All documentation has been updated to explain the revisions, and users are advised to consult the documentation for details. In addition new data from the September 2021 web survey have been deposited.

As of January 13, 2023, there have been 270,744,353 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the whole of Europe since the first confirmed cases in January 2020. There were approximately 12.1 million new cases reported in the week beginning January 24, 2022, the highest number of daily cases in a single week. There was a significant increase in the number of new cases in Europe in winter 2021/22 as the Omicron variant emerged. France has had the highest amount of confirmed cases in Europe with 38,337,350, followed by Germany with 37,594,526 cases. A full breakdown of the confirmed cases in Europe can be found here.

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In a survey carried out in the United Kingdom in September 2021, five percent of respondents said that they had encountered news or information about the coronavirus that they believed to be false or misleading 20 times or more per day in the last week. This marked an increase of two percent from the share who said the same in the survey wave held in September 2020. Meanwhile, 24 percent of respondents believed they had seen fake news about COVID-19 a few times a week in September 2021.

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Headline estimates for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. 

Due to changes in the collection and availability of data on COVID-19 this page will no longer be updated. The webpage will no longer be available as of 11 May 2023. On-going, reliable sources of data for COVID-19 are available via the COVID-19 dashboard, Office for National Statistics, and the UKHSA This page provides a weekly summary of data on deaths related to COVID-19 published by NHS England and the Office for National Statistics. More frequent reporting on COVID-19 deaths is now available here, alongside data on cases, hospitalisations, and vaccinations. This update contains data on deaths related to COVID-19 from: NHS England COVID-19 Daily Deaths - last updated on 28 June 2022 with data up to and including 27 June 2022. ONS weekly deaths by Local Authority - last updated on 16 August 2022 with data up to and including 05 August 2022. Summary notes about each these sources are provided at the end of this document. Note on interpreting deaths data: statistics from the available sources differ in definition, timing and completeness. It is important to understand these differences when interpreting the data or comparing between sources. Weekly Key Points An additional 24 deaths in London hospitals of patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 and an additional 5 where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate were announced in the week ending 27 June 2022. This compares with 40 and 3 for the previous week. A total of 306 deaths in hospitals of patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 and 27 where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate were announced for England as whole. This compares with 301 and 26 for the previous week. The total number of COVID-19 deaths reported in London hospitals of patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 is now 19,102. The total number of deaths in London hospitals where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate is now 1,590. This compares to figures of 119,237 and 8,197 for English hospitals as a whole. Due to the delay between death occurrence and reporting, the estimated number of deaths to this point will be revised upwards over coming days These figures do not include deaths that occurred outside of hospitals. Data from ONS has indicated that the majority (79%) of COVID-19 deaths in London have taken place in hospitals. Recently announced deaths in Hospitals 21 June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June London No positive test 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 London Positive test 3 7 2 10 0 0 2 Rest of England No positive test 2 6 4 4 0 0 6 Rest of England Positive test 47 49 41 58 6 0 81 16 May 23 May 30 May 06 June 13 June 20 June 27 June London No positive test 14 3 4 0 4 3 5 London Positive test 45 34 55 20 62 40 24 Rest of England No positive test 41 58 33 23 47 23 22 Rest of England Positive test 456 375 266 218 254 261 282 Deaths by date of occurrence 21 June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June London 20,683 20,686 20,690 20,691 20,692 20,692 20,692 Rest of England 106,604 106,635 106,679 106,697 106,713 106,733 106,742 Interpreting the data The data published by NHS England are incomplete due to: delays in the occurrence and subsequent reporting of deaths deaths occurring outside of hospitals not being included The total deaths reported up to a given point are therefore less than the actual number that have occurred by the same point. Delays in reporting NHS provide the following guidance regarding the delay between occurrence and reporting of deaths: Confirmation of COVID-19 diagnosis, death notification and reporting in central figures can take up to several days and the hospitals providing the data are under significant operational pressure. This means that the totals reported at 5pm on each day may not include all deaths that occurred on that day or on recent prior days. The data published by NHS England for reporting periods from April 1st onward includes both date of occurrence and date of reporting and so it is possible to illustrate the distribution of these reporting delays. This data shows that approximately 10% of COVID-19 deaths occurring in London hospitals are included in the reporting period ending on the same day, and that approximately two-thirds of deaths were reported by two days after the date of occurrence. Deaths outside of hospitals The data published by NHS England does not include deaths that occur outside of hospitals, i.e. those in homes, hospices, and care homes. ONS have published data for deaths by place of occurrence. This shows that, up to 05 August, 79% of deaths in London recorded as involving COVID-19 occurred in hospitals (this compares with 44% for all causes of death). This would suggest that the NHS England data may underestimate overall deaths from COVID-19 by around 20%. Number of deaths Proportion of deaths Week ending Hospital Care home Home Other Hospital Care home Home Other 06 Mar 2020 1 1 0 0 50% 50% 0% 0% 13 Mar 2020 13 0 4 0 76% 0% 24% 0% 20 Mar 2020 148 9 11 0 88% 5% 7% 0% 27 Mar 2020 610 45 53 14 84% 6% 7% 2% 03 Apr 2020 1,215 132 143 27 80% 9% 9% 2% 10 Apr 2020 1,495 282 162 32 76% 14% 8% 2% 17 Apr 2020 1,076 295 101 29 72% 20% 7% 2% 24 Apr 2020 669 210 72 35 68% 21% 7% 4% 01 May 2020 348 125 43 15 66% 24% 8% 3% 08 May 2020 261 93 29 16 65% 23% 7% 4% 15 May 2020 152 51 22 5 66% 22% 10% 2% 22 May 2020 93 51 10 3 59% 32% 6% 2% 29 May 2020 62 25 7 6 62% 25% 7% 6% 05 Jun 2020 53 23 4 1 65% 28% 5% 1% 12 Jun 2020 27 11 9 3 54% 22% 18% 6% 19 Jun 2020 22 7 6 2 59% 19% 16% 5% 26 Jun 2020 14 14 5 1 41% 41% 15% 3% 03 Jul 2020 10 5 2 5 45% 23% 9% 23% 10 Jul 2020 15 3 0 1 79% 16% 0% 5% 17 Jul 2020 8 7 2 0 47% 41% 12% 0% 24 Jul 2020 15 1 0 2 83% 6% 0% 11% 31 Jul 2020 6 2 1 0 67% 22% 11% 0% 07 Aug 2020 6 2 0 1 67% 22% 0% 11% 14 Aug 2020 7 4 2 1 50% 29% 14% 7% 21 Aug 2020 4 0 0 0 100% 0% 0% 0% 28 Aug 2020 1 2 0 0 33% 67% 0% 0% 04 Sep 2020 3 0 1 0 75% 0% 25% 0% 11 Sep 2020 7 2 0 1 70% 20% 0% 10% 18 Sep 2020 9 2 1 0 75% 17% 8% 0% 25 Sep 2020 23 3 3 0 79% 10% 10% 0% 02 Oct 2020 27 3 2 0 84% 9% 6% 0% 09 Oct 2020 36 3 3 0 86% 7% 7% 0% 16 Oct 2020 41 0 2 0 95% 0% 5% 0% 23 Oct 2020 47 4 4 0 85% 7% 7% 0% 30 Oct 2020 91 3 5 1 91% 3% 5% 1% 06 Nov 2020 93 7 5 2 87% 7% 5% 2% 13 Nov 2020 109 11 10 2 83% 8% 8% 2% 20 Nov 2020 162 5 8 4 91% 3% 4% 2% 27 Nov 2020 175 8 14 5 87% 4% 7% 2% 04 Dec 2020 190 10 13 10 85% 4% 6% 4% 11 Dec 2020 199 9 13 6 88% 4% 6% 3% 18 Dec 2020 267 15 25 4 86% 5% 8% 1% 25 Dec 2020 403 30 43 7 83% 6% 9% 1% 01 Jan 2021 677 35 109 28 80% 4% 13% 3% 08 Jan 2021 959 73 167 36 78% 6% 14% 3% 15 Jan 2021 1,125 84 165 39 80% 6% 12% 3% 22 Jan 2021 1,163 96 142 43 81% 7% 10% 3% 29 Jan 2021 863 82 101 28 80% 8% 9% 3% 05 Feb 2021 605 70 59 38 78% 9% 8% 5% 12 Feb 2021 439 29 49 14 83% 5% 9% 3% 19 Feb 2021 338 29 33 12 82% 7% 8% 3% 26 Feb 2021 214 19 19 11 81% 7% 7% 4% 05 Mar 2021 141 11 19 5 80% 6% 11% 3% 12 Mar 2021 99 9 7 1 85% 8% 6% 1% 19 Mar 2021 65 10 1 1 84% 13% 1% 1% 26 Mar 2021 41 9 4 2 73% 16% 7% 4% 02 Apr 2021 35 5 4 0 80% 11% 9% 0% 09 Apr 2021 29 2 3 0 85% 6% 9% 0% 16 Apr 2021 24 6 2 0 75% 19% 6% 0% 23 Apr 2021 14 1 0 0 93% 7% 0% 0% 30 Apr 2021 13 1 1 0 87% 7% 7% 0% 07 May 2021 14 3 0 0 82% 18% 0% 0% 14 May 2021 6 2 0 0 75% 25% 0% 0% 21 May 2021 8 1 1 0 80% 10% 10% 0% 28 May 2021 11 1 2 1 73% 7% 13% 7% 04 Jun 2021 9 0 0 0 100% 0% 0% 0% 11 Jun 2021 11 3 0 0 79% 21% 0% 0% 18 Jun 2021 11 4 2 1 61% 22% 11% 6% 25 Jun 2021 10 0 0 1 91% 0% 0% 9% 02 Jul 2021 14 1 2 0 82% 6% 12% 0% 09 Jul 2021 12 1 4 1 67% 6% 22% 6% 16 Jul 2021 18 3 2 0 78% 13% 9% 0% 23 Jul 2021 48 0 7 1 86% 0% 12% 2% 30 Jul 2021 49 2 4 4 83% 3% 7% 7% 06 Aug 2021 66 1 9 1 86% 1% 12% 1% 13 Aug 2021 60 1 12 1 81% 1% 16% 1% 20 Aug 2021 84 1 5 1 92% 1% 5% 1% 27 Aug 2021 78 3 10 3 83% 3% 11% 3% 03 Sep 2021 85 3 7 1 89% 3% 7% 1% 10 Sep 2021 83 2 10 2 86% 2% 10% 2% 17 Sep 2021 65 2 9 1 84% 3% 12% 1% 24 Sep 2021 76 5 5 0 88% 6% 6% 0% 01 Oct 2021 88 2 15 1 83% 2% 14% 1% 08 Oct 2021 65 2 7 1 87% 3% 9% 1% 15 Oct 2021 62 1 9 4 82% 1% 12% 5% 22 Oct 2021 64 2 11 2 81% 3% 14% 3% 29 Oct 2021 66 3 11 1 81% 4% 14% 1% 05 Nov 2021 67 3 10 5 79% 4% 12% 6% 12 Nov 2021 84 2 12 1 85% 2% 12% 1% 19 Nov 2021 63 2 2 0 94% 3% 3% 0% 26 Nov 2021 68 2 8 0 87% 3% 10% 0% 03 Dec 2021 72 2 10 1 85% 2% 12% 1% 10 Dec 2021 81 3 12 4 81% 3% 12% 4% 17 Dec 2021 91 1 12 3 85% 1% 11% 3% 24 Dec 2021 101 8 15 3 80% 6% 12% 2% 31 Dec 2021 129 11 19 6 78% 7% 12% 4% 07 Jan 2022 178 18 19 4 81% 8% 9% 2% 14 Jan 2022 194 23 16 14 79% 9% 6% 6% 21 Jan 2022 165 25 11 4 80% 12% 5% 2% 28 Jan 2022 119 20 13 5 76% 13% 8% 3% 04 Feb 2022 97 13 8 2 81% 11% 7% 2% 11 Feb 2022 51 10 6 6 70% 14% 8% 8% 18 Feb 2022 62 6 9 3 78% 8% 11% 4% 25 Feb 2022 55 2 2 1 92% 3% 3% 2% 04 Mar 2022 47 2 2 2 89% 4% 4% 4% 11 Mar 2022 48 3 4 0 87% 5% 7% 0% 18 Mar 2022 60 7 8 4 76% 9% 10% 5% 25 Mar 2022 51 11 5 2 74% 16% 7% 3% 01 Apr 2022 60 8 5 2 80% 11% 7% 3% 08 Apr 2022 78 4 7 3 85% 4% 8% 3% 15 Apr 2022 74 6 6 3 83% 7% 7% 3% 22 Apr 2022 58 10 7 6 72% 12% 9% 7% 29 Apr 2022 39 8 3 4 72% 15% 6% 7% 06 May 2022 44 3 4 0 86% 6% 8% 0% 13 May 2022 29 2 4 2 78% 5% 11% 5% 20 May 2022 16 4 0 2 73% 18% 0% 9% 27 May 2022 34 3 3 1 83% 7% 7% 2% 03 Jun 2022 18 1 1 0 90% 5% 5% 0% 10 Jun 2022 18 1 3 0 82% 5% 14% 0% 17 Jun 2022 22 1 2 0 88% 4% 8% 0% 24 Jun 2022 33 2 3 1 85% 5% 8% 3% 01 Jul 2022 33 2 2 0 89% 5% 5% 0% 08 Jul 2022 51 4 4 4 81% 6% 6% 6% 15 Jul 2022 60 5 4 2 85% 7% 6% 3% 22 Jul 2022 71 9 10 3 76% 10% 11% 3% 29 Jul 2022 48 7 9 0 75% 11% 14% 0% 05 Aug 2022 35 1 3 4 81% 2% 7% 9% Total 18,924 2,390 2,152 634 79% 10% 9% 3% Comparison with all cause mortality Comparison of data sources Note on data sources NHS England provides numbers of patients who have died in hospitals in England and had tested positive for COVID-19, and from 25 April, the number of patients where COVID-19 is mentioned on the death certificate and no positive COVID-19 test result was received. Figures are updated each day at 2pm with deaths reported up to 5pm the previous day. There is a delay between the occurrence of a death to it being captured in the

A survey carried out in the United Kingdom in September 2021 revealed that 36 percent of respondents between the ages of 16 and 24 had come across news or information about the coronavirus that they thought was false or misleading in the last week, compared to just 17 percent of those aged 65 or above. Younger consumers were also the least likely to say that they had not seen any fake news on COVID-19 or were unsure whether or not they had, whilst a higher share of older consumers admitted that they did not know if they had encounted misleading information about the pandemic in the week running to the survey.

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Bilingual (EN-UK) COVID-19-related corpus acquired from the portal (https://www.gov.pl/) of the Polish Government (8th May 2020)

As of June 12, 2022, Germany had the highest number of reported COVID-19 cases in Europe in the preceding two weeks at 564,584. Additionally, France has recorded 362,763 cases in the last two weeks. Furthermore, France has overall been the worst affected country in Europe overall since the pandemic began with over 29.7 million cases.

There have been around 218.7 million cases of COVID-19 in Europe. Furthermore, COVID-19 has so far been responsible for 1,997,179 confirmed deaths in Europe as of June12, with 179,272 of the deaths occurring in the UK.

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Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 210 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until July 13, 2022. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 557.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 6.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.