The 7-day average number of UK daily flights in the week to 1 August rose 2% from the previous week, @eurocontrol data show.
This is now up 117% from the week ending 23 May 2021 when international travel restarted with the UK travel traffic light system ow.ly/oKGn50FKPy3
@eurocontrol 25% of UK businesses in mid-July 2021 saw a fall in turnover compared with what is normally expected at this time of year, according to the Business Insights and Conditions Survey.
This is the lowest proportion seen since the series began in June 2020 ow.ly/8EnW50FKPAJ
@eurocontrol The volume of online job adverts on 30 July 2021 increased by 3% since last week and was 135% of its Feb 2020 average, according to @Adzuna.
The biggest weekly increase was in the transport/logistics/warehouse category (up 11% over the latest week) ow.ly/wvPA50FKPGt
An estimated 945,000 people experienced self-reported long COVID in the 4 weeks to 4 July (where symptoms persisted more than 4 weeks after the first suspected infection) ow.ly/csTl50FKP4w
Self-reported long COVID was most likely among people
▪️ aged 35 to 69
▪ wh️o are female
▪️ living in the most deprived areas
▪️ working in health or social care
▪️ with another health condition or disability
4,561 deaths related to drug poisoning were registered in 2020 in England & Wales (79.5 deaths per million people).
This is 3.8% higher than the rate seen in 2019 (4,393 deaths or 76.7 deaths per million) and the highest number since records began in 1993 ow.ly/t0zK50FJ9h8
There were over twice as many deaths relating to drug poisoning among men (109.7 deaths per million) compared with women (49.8 per million people) registered in 2020 ow.ly/DVm750FJ9jJ
Around half of all drug-poisoning deaths registered in 2020 involved an opiate (49.6% or 2,263 deaths).
777 deaths involved cocaine, 9.7% more than 2019, and more than quadruple the amount recorded a decade ago (144 deaths in 2010) ow.ly/ieDJ50FJ9mh
Latest data show #COVID19 infection rates have continued to increase in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and decreased in Scotland in the week ending 24 July 2021.
The Delta variant continues to be the most common in the UK ow.ly/IYWA50FGZtB
In England, the infection rate increased in all regions except in the East of England and the South West in the week ending 24 July 2021 ow.ly/mMLl50FGZuH
Latest data from the ONS, Joint Biosecurity Centre and @PHE_uk highlighted in our interactive #COVID19 insights tool shows a continued increase in COVID-19 infections, hospital admissions and deaths in England ow.ly/34EO50FGZKn
6% of adults reported self-isolating at some point in the last 7 days between 21-25 July, according to our latest Opinions & Lifestyle survey.
This includes adults who were currently isolating, and those who completed self-isolation in the last 7 days ow.ly/gzoo50FGTJH
Main reasons for self-isolating were being in contact with someone who has tested positive for #COVID19 (42%), followed by being notified by NHS Test&Trace or directly by a venue they’d visited (37%) ow.ly/XlPY50FGTLy
After #COVID19 restrictions eased in England on 19 July, the proportion of adults reporting to wear face coverings when outside their home remained high (95%) - while adults who always or often maintain social distancing fell (61% this week, 63% last week) ow.ly/UBoU50FGTNd