In a weekly survey carried out in the United Kingdom (UK) in **************, ** percent of ** to 34-year-olds said they had avoided news about the coronavirus in the past week. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

A weekly survey carried out in the United Kingdom (UK) revealed that people are checking for news and information on the Coronavirus outbreak less and less as time goes by. In the week before ***********, almost a quarter of respondents said they were getting coronavirus information at least ** times a day. On the last period recorded, only **** percent said the same. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

In a weekly survey carried out in the United Kingdom (UK) in **************, most respondents disagreed that the media is exaggerating the seriousness of the Coronavirus. However, ** percent of ** to 24-year-olds agreed with this statement. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Analysis of delays between the onset of symptoms and booking a test in the Test and Trace system and the impact these delays had on COVID-19 hospitalisation and deaths involving COVID-19.

This is a release of management information for anonymous summary data for those patients that have been identified on the Shielded Patient List (SPL). Its purpose is to make the summary data available to a wider audience, as open data, to enable a broad base of users to perform analysis from it. The purpose behind releasing this data is to present regional and local data to allow for its use in public health. It will also allow for greater analysis, modelling and planning to be performed using the latest data, to aid in the response to the pandemic. We will update this weekly and we would welcome your feedback to help us develop our open data sets. The data that is published is based on version 74 of the SPL clinical methodology, with the data extracted as at 21 September 2021.

Estimates of the prevalence of self-reported long COVID and associated activity limitation using responses collected through face-to-face interviews with study workers only.

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 ** percent of those aged 16 years or older saying that they trusted information directly from the National Health Service. By contrast, just ** percent said the same about Facebook.

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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 ** times or more per day in the last week. This marked an increase of *** percent from the share who said the same in the survey wave held in September 2020. Meanwhile, ** percent of respondents believed they had seen fake news about COVID-19 a few times a week in September 2021.

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A survey carried out in the United Kingdom in September 2021 found that ** 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, ** percent used a fact checking site or tool to determine whether or not the information they found was true, and ** percent turned to family or friends for help in confirming the legitimacy of news they suspected to be false.

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A survey carried out in the United Kingdom in September 2021 revealed that ** percent of respondents between the ages of ** and ** had come across news or information about the coronavirus that they thought was false or misleading in the last week, compared to just ** 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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Indicators from the Vaccine Opinions Study to understand changes in uptake and attitudes towards the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, amongst adults in England who previously reported they had declined the vaccine or were unlikely or unsure about having the vaccine if offered.

Total Covid vaccinations per hundred people in the United Kingdom, September, 2022 The most recent value is 224.04 Covid vaccinations per hundred people as of September 2022, an increase compared to the previous value of 223.98 Covid vaccinations per hundred people. Historically, the average for the United Kingdom from January 2021 to September 2022 is 155.24 Covid vaccinations per hundred people. The minimum of 14.5 Covid vaccinations per hundred people was recorded in January 2021, while the maximum of 224.04 Covid vaccinations per hundred people was reached in September 2022. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

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.

As of October 6, 2022, 11,641 confirmed COVID-19 patients were in hospital in the United Kingdom. The number of COVID patients in hospitals first peaked at over 21.6 thousand on April 12, 2020 and dropped as low as 772 on September 11, 2020. However, the number of patients reached a new peak in the winter of 2020/21 with over 39.2 thousand patients in hospital on January 18, 2021.

The total number of cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.