Estimated no. of active symptomatic cases of SARS-CoV-2 in UK from COVID Symptom Study
Estimated no. of active cases of SARS-CoV-2 in England (grey) and UK (blue), from national random swab testing
Estimation of current UK nCoV19 basic reproduction number (R), based on Symptom Study data
UK Hospitals Now:
COVID New hospital admissions on 7th Sep 2022 were 656. The average admissions over the seven days up to 7th Sep 2022 was 94, which equates to 2.2% of the January 2021 peak.
COVID Hospital occupancy on 1st Mar 2023 was 8948. The average occupancy over the seven days up to 1st Mar 2023 was 1278, which equates to 3.3% of the January 2021 peak.
UK Mortality Now:
The average number of daily deaths within 28 days of test (by the date reported) over the seven days up to 20th May 2022 was 104, which equates to 8.3% of the January 2021 peak.
The average number of daily deaths within 28 days of test (by date of death) over the seven days up to 15th May 2022 was 101, which equates to 7.9% of the January 2021 peak.
The average number of daily deaths mentioning COVID on death certificate (by date of death) over the seven days up to 13th Feb 2023 was 63, which equates to 4.7% of the January 2021 peak.
Prevalence data, incidence data, hospital admission data and deaths (28 day) by date of death data, have been time-shifted and scaled to align with a peak value of 100% at the January 2021 peak. Clicking legend items below will toggle data on/off. Mouse rollover a dataset to show all percentage for a given date. As with the majority of data on this datahub, these graphs update live as new data is published.
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The dataset alignments shown above are aligned to the dates from the COVID-19 Infection Survey, which is published weekly by the ONS. Comparing the dates shown here for each dataset, with its respective un-shifted published date, gives us an approximate idea of the real world lag between different datasets. These lags are shown in the legend; e.g., the latest data published for the COVID Symptom Study is nine days behind (t-9) the latest data published in the ONS Infection Data (t). It is important to note that this does not necessarily mean these datasets represent real-world events that happen nine days apart, but rather the same trend appearing in these two datasets, arises nine days apart.
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