Our latest results from the #COVID19 Infection Survey show increasing infection rates in England, uncertainty in Wales and decreases in both Northern Ireland and Scotland in the week ending 2 October 2021 ow.ly/3DiL50Gogvq
In England in the week ending 2 October 2021, an increase in #COVID19 rates was seen in all regions except for the East of England, where the trend was uncertain ow.ly/4fC650Gogyn
#COVID19 infection rates increased in people aged
▪️ school Year 7 to Year 11
▪️ 35 to 49 years
▪️ 70 years and over.
The percentage of people testing positive was highest in those aged school Year 7 to Year 11 (6.93%) ow.ly/H72d50GogGe
Commenting on today’s results, Sarah Crofts, Head of Analytical Outputs for the #COVID19 Infection Survey, said:
#COVID19 hospital admissions and deaths remain lower in Wave 3 compared with the same week in Wave 2 (January 2020) ow.ly/VNXj50Gom34
In England, the #COVID19 infection rate increased in the week ending 3 October 2021.
Deaths also increased in the latest week (week ending 24 September) compared with the previous week ow.ly/Kdb950Goma4
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We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.