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Weekly cases of COVID-19 by specimen date, total confirmed (week ending Friday) (13264) Metric type
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- This is the weekly number of new cases of COVID-19 (sum of daily cases from Saturday-Friday of reference week) calculated from data reported by Public Health England (PHE) which have been confirmed by pillars 1 and 2 of the UK Government's testing framework. This includes cases confirmed by the following: NHS and PHE ('Pillar 1'), commercial partners ('Pillar 2') and Lateral flow device testing. COVID-19 cases are identified by taking specimens from people and sending these specimens to laboratories around the UK to be tested. If the test is positive, this is a referred to as a lab-confirmed case. Lateral flow device tests test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus and are swab tests that give results in less than an hour, without needing to go to a laboratory.
Confirmed positive cases are matched to ONS geographical area codes using the home postcode of the person tested. Some cases cannot be matched to a geographical area because postcode information is missing or received late. This is why the Local authority and Region counts do not add up to the England total.
Lab-confirmed positive cases are attributed to the day the first specimen was taken from the person being tested (the specimen date). Each day new cases are reported, but the dates they originate from cover the previous few days. Because of this, there are few cases reported for the most recent date, but this does not mean the epidemic is tailing off. Data from around five days ago can be considered complete. Data for recent days are constantly being revised as more information becomes available.
For further information about the data please refer to https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/about
- Modified
- 28 Mar 2023
- Data last updated
- 09 Jan 2024
- Short label
- Weekly cases of COVID-19 by specimen date, total confirmed (week ending Friday)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Count
- Dataset
- Covid_19 Cases (weekly)
- Collection
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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