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.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the 2020 to 2021 season the weekly reports will be published all year round.

This page includes reports published from 8 October 2020 to the 8 July 2021.

Due to a misclassification of 2 subgroups within the Asian and Asian British and Black and Black British ethnic categories, the proportions of deaths for these ethnic categories in reports published between week 27 2021 and week 29 2021 were incorrect. These have been corrected from week 30 2021 report onwards.

The impact of the correction specifically affects the proportion of deaths with an Asian and Asian British and/or Black and Black British ethnic categories. The total number of deaths reported was unaffected. Other ethnicity data included in the reports were not affected by this issue.

Previous reports on influenza surveillance are also available for:

• 2019 to 2020 season
• 2018 to 2019 season
• 2017 to 2018 season
• 2016 to 2017 season
• 2015 to 2016 season
• 2014 to 2015 season
• 2013 to 2014 season

From 15 July this report will be available at National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2021 to 2022 season.

Reports from spring 2013 and earlier are available on https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140629102650tf_/http://www.hpa.org.uk/Publications/InfectiousDiseases/Influenza/">the UK Government Web Archive.

View previous COVID-19 surveillance reports.

This release provides estimates of coronavirus (COVID-19) related support schemes, grants and loans made to farms in England. Data are based on farms participating in the Farm Business Survey and are representative only of the survey population. The data covers the period March 2020 to February 2021, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The wording of this release was updated on the 17th January 2022 to clarify terminology relating to the Farm Business Survey population. There were no changes to any of the previously published figures.

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This release provides information on:

• confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases for students and staff known to providers
• estimates for number of self-isolating students
• estimated cases per 100,000 for students and staff (autumn term only)
• numbers of providers by their higher education tiers of restriction (autumn term only)

The release was updated on 26 April with data up to 7 April.

The WICH monitoring tool collates metrics across a range of wider impacts to provide stakeholders with a single point of access. This will enable stakeholders to:

• monitor changes over time or against an agreed point in time
• make timely, informed decisions
• intervene early to mitigate against poor outcomes
• understand the wider context on population health

The WICH tool was first published on 16 July 2020. Since then, we have continually developed the tool to include additional metrics and make it easier to use.

On 1 October 2021, Public Health England (PHE) closed and responsibility for the WICH tool transferred to the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).

On 5 November 2020, PHE published an in-depth commentary and associated tables on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on grocery shopping behaviours during the period March to June 2020.

Please send any questions or comments to pha-ohid@dhsc.gov.uk

These reports summarise the surveillance of influenza, COVID-19 and other seasonal respiratory illnesses in England.

Weekly findings from community, primary care, secondary care and mortality surveillance systems are included in the reports.

This page includes reports published from 17 July 2025.

Please note that after the week 21 report (covering data up to week 20), this surveillance report will move to a condensed summer report and will be released every 2 weeks.

Correction notice

The COVID-19 vaccine uptake coverage report data 16 October 2025 (week 42) National flu and COVID-19 vaccine uptake coverage report data 9 October 2025 (week 41) were corrected on 23 October 2025. More details are provided in the statistics.

Previous reports on influenza surveillance are also available for:

• 2024 to 2025 season
• 2023 to 2024 season
• 2022 to 2023 season
• 2021 to 2022 season
• 2020 to 2021 season
• 2019 to 2020 season
• 2018 to 2019 season
• 2017 to 2018 season
• 2016 to 2017 season
• 2015 to 2016 season
• 2014 to 2015 season
• 2013 to 2014 season
• https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140629102650tf_/http://www.hpa.org.uk/Publications/InfectiousDiseases/Influenza/">Prior to 2013 season

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A summary of main findings from the 2020 Community Life Recontact Survey, independently conducted and authored by Kantar on behalf of DCMS.

Findings from this survey cover public beliefs and behaviours related to social cohesion, charitable giving, volunteering, wellbeing and loneliness for adults (aged 16+) in England during March to July 2020, and how these have changed compared with a period before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executive Summary

Glossary

1. Introduction

2. Methodology and interpretation

3. Formal volunteering

4. Informal volunteering

5. Charitable giving

6. Social cohesion

7. Wellbeing and loneliness

Appendix A – Wellbeing and loneliness tables

Appendix B – Limitations

^{Data from the re-contact survey should not be compared with previous years of Community Life Survey data because it is a different cohort. The cohort is made up of those who completed the 2018-19 or 2019-20 Community Life Survey and agreed to be re-contacted for follow-up research. While weights and statistical techniques have been applied to correct for this difference, a reasonable margin of error still exists. This report should therefore be used as a standalone product and further analysis should be run separately from the Community Life Survey.}