First, here are some figures on cases, which you can see are still rising quite a bit.
They are currently rising fastest in England, and falling only in Scotland. England will likely overtake Scotland to have the highest 7 day specimen case rate within the next few days
At a more local level, the North East of England has the highest case rate by some distance.
The North West has slowed down quite a bit and looks like it is going to start falling soon, but every other area of England has had at least a 30% increase from last week
Firstly cases, which appear to be peaking right now!
Still early days of course, but it will be nice if this is the case. We should probably give it to the end of the week to be sure though.
If you were wondering how those 300,000 cases stack up against similar sized countries, then here is this. (Although these are yesterdays figures, and they don't take testing differences into account!)
First here are the cases, which are still rising throughout the UK.
They do appear to be peaking in Scotland, although the cases in Scotland have been rising for a lot longer, and are at a much higher rate than the rest of the UK.
So the UK wide peak may not be so close
At a local level cases are rising in all parts of the UK.
The North East of England are currently seeing the highest rates though, and have had quite the surge in the past week.
At a local authority level, Dundee City has the highest rates.
As it is the 4th of July 🎆🇺🇸, I thought I'd put together a little table comparing the situation across the UK and USA right now!
Here is a closer look at cases.
The UK is obviously reporting far more right now, even without adjusting for population.
Scotland has reported more cases in the past week than New York, California, Illinois, and Texas combined.😬(they have a combined population of 100 million)
Deaths however tell a different story, where the USA is still reporting quite a bit more. Per capita, the USA is reporting about 3x as many deaths as the UK.
The four states mentioned previously have had 317 new deaths between them in the past week, in comparison to Scotlands 19
To help improve load times and usability, I've split the UK page up into three separate pages, and added some additional stuff to them!
The first is the 'national' page. This includes the UK wide data, 4 nation data, large UK regional data, and international comparisons.
On here I added in per capita figures into the English cases by day chart, and I also added a deaths version of the same chart.
Although I've only just started collecting the data for that, so it's just overall totals until later on today, when I can show the daily increase.
The second one is the 'local' page! This now has a time series of cases by day in each local authority (since I started collecting it in July at least), and a quick search box to see some data about a specific local authority