Cases
People tested positive
People tested positive
Latest data provided on 22 February 2022
Daily
41,130
Last 7 days
304,204
Cases have crept up again … 
Cases
People tested positive
People tested positive
Latest data provided on 23 February 2022
Daily
39,656
Last 7 days
289,642
Cases have crept up again …
Cases
People tested positive
Latest data provided on 24 February 2022
Daily
38,933
Last 7 days
276,676
Cases are plateauing at 40,000 a day …
Cases
People tested positive
Latest data provided on 25 February 2022
Daily
31,933
Last 7 days
260,924
A big drop today … 
Dashboard stopping weekend updates
From the week of 21 February 2022, the UK Health Security Agency will stop publishing dashboard updates at weekends.
The dashboard will be updated as usual from Monday to Friday. Daily cases and deaths by report date published on Mondays will include figures from the weekend. These will not be separated out to show daily figures for Saturday and Sunday.
So, presumably, that means we’ll have Bumper Monday … 
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whats-new/record/0a367886-9920-455c-a6e2-d0cf0285d0d0
Number of tests carried out is under-reported
Due to a technical issue, the NHS is unable to report all of the figures for the number of tests conducted in Pillar 1 or Pillar 3. Therefore, the totals reported today are incomplete.
Reporting of cases is unaffected.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whats-new/record/f1112d62-0e57-49f3-a9de-0d41461b8157
28 February 2022
Weekend updates to the dashboard have stopped
From the week of 21 February 2022, the UK Health Security Agency stopped publishing dashboard updates at weekends.
The dashboard is updated daily from Monday to Friday. Daily cases and deaths by report date published on Mondays include figures from the preceding weekend. These will not be separated out to show daily figures for Saturday and Sunday. Cases by specimen date and deaths by date of death are separated out for each day.
Additional details
Daily numbers have been removed
The UK summary has been updated to show 7-day totals for cases, deaths, hospital admissions and virus tests. Daily numbers have been removed Daily data can still be found on the Cases, Deaths, Vaccinations, Testing and Healthcare pages. Data by specimen date and date of death are backdated, whereas data by report date for cases and deaths are not so use caution when looking at daily data by report date.
We recommend using data by specimen date or date of death to look at trends or 7-day figures if using report date data.
So, today’s graphs look like this:
234,000 Cases over 7 days averages at 33,000 per day.
On the Cases page, the graph looks like this:
82,451 - Bumper Monday …
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom
The daily figure has been hovering over the 40,000 mark for a couple of weeks now - that’s 1,200,000 reported cases per month - the real total will be (probably) much higher … 
I’ve only just realised they’ve stopped providing the daily figures for new infections …
Apparently though, with 44,017 new infections today it’s on the increase again due to a new,more dominant, more infectious Omicron strain in the UK.
My wife had a couple of days off & went back in to find the covid status level at the hospital had changed, due to an increase in numbers & that she was no longer allowed to wear her own clothes, it was back into scrubs.
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Presumably, you are referring to BA.2:
Susan Hopkins, UKHSA chief medical adviser, said, “We now know that BA.2 has an increased growth rate which can be seen in all regions in England. We have also learnt that BA.2 has a slightly higher secondary attack rate than BA.1 in households. Although hospital admissions and deaths remain low, cases are still high in some areas and some age groups so it’s important that we continue to act cautiously as restrictions are lifted.”
Commenting on the report, John Edmunds, professor at the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said, “BA.2 appears to be even more transmissible than the original omicron strain (BA.1). It is starting to increase in relative frequency and we might expect it to become dominant in the UK in the next few weeks, as it has done in Denmark recently.
“It is difficult to say what the implications of this will be. It may well extend this wave of infection, or even lead to another peak. The good news is that at present there is no evidence to suggest that it is more severe than omicron and, as the UKHSA analysis shows, the vaccines appear to be as effective against it as they are against BA.1.”
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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom
Still hovering …
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https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom
Still hovering …
Hospitalisations remain on a plateau, too:
8 March 2022
Today’s update is delayed. The current estimate for release is 5:30pm. Further updates will be provided here.
Covid infections are increasing across the UK with about one in 25 people infected, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics.
In Scotland, 300,000 people - one in 18 - have coronavirus - the highest level recorded during the pandemic.
The ONS says it’s too early to say what’s behind the rise in cases.
But some scientists believe the BA.2 variant’s increased transmissibility, recent easing of restrictions and waning immunity from the vaccines could all be factors.
The ONS infection survey, which tests thousands of people randomly in households across the UK, estimates that 2.6 million people would have tested positive in the week ending 5 March - up from 2.4 million the previous week.
There were also rises across the four UK nations:
- in Northern Ireland, up from 5.8% testing positive to 7.8% (one in 13 people)
- in Scotland, up from 5.3% testing positive to 5.7% (one in 18)
- in England, up from 3.6% testing positive last week to 3.8% (one in 25)
- in Wales, up from 3.1% testing positive to 3.2% (one in 30 people)
Older age groups are now experiencing rising levels of infection with 2.9% of over-70s testing positive in England - the highest level since mid-January.
Is this the sting in the tail … 
