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The figures are as reported daily at coronavirus.data.gov.uk.[1] From the week of 21 February 2022, the UK Health Security Agency stopped publishing dashboard updates at weekends. Figures for Saturday and Sunday are now combined with Monday's figures. The source stopped reporting numbers after May 2022.[2]

Daily cases, 2022 (NB scaled to a maximum of 240,000 per time period)

Daily cases, 2021 (NB scaled to a maximum of 200,000 per day)


Daily cases, 2020 (NB scaled to a maximum of 60,000 per day)


Notes

  • Values for dates between 25 September and 1 October 2020 are questionable in light of announcements of 3 and 4 October: Following under-reporting due to a 'technical issue' between 25 September and 1 October, 15,841 additional cases were reported on 3 and 4 October. The error was caused by a limit on the number of columns in an Excel spreadsheet.
  • Values for dates between 8 and 16 December 2020 are questionable in light of announcement of 16 December: Public Health Wales announced that there had been a delay in transferring data from the Lighthouse Labs which had resulted in under-reporting over the preceding week of approximately 11,000 positive tests. The 'missing' numbers were reported instead on 16 December.[3]
  • Warning: the values in the above graph are not directly comparable between different time periods because they were measured under different testing rates. It is therefore vital to consult Test positivity rate and New daily tests, and to understand the strategy for selection of subjects for testing.

References

  1. ^ GOV.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK (section: Cases by date reported) coronavirus.data.gov.uk, accessed 11 September 2020 (and regularly since)
  2. ^ Cases in United Kingdom coronavirus.data.gov.uk, accessed 10 January 2023
  3. ^ Covid: 11,000 positive tests missing from Welsh figures 17 December 2020 www.bbc.co.uk, accessed 12 January 2021