Today’s #COVID19 data shows increases in infections across all four nations of the UK ⬇ ow.ly/b05t50IgX0v
#COVID19 infection rates remained high across all regions of England.
Increases were seen in
▪️the North West
▪️East Midlands
▪️West Midlands
▪️East of England
▪️and London
in the week ending 5 March 2022.
Infection rates increased in England for those aged 25 years and over and decreased in those aged school Year 7 to 11, in the week ending 5 March 2022.
Up to 6 March 2022, Omicron BA.2 variant infections increased in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
In contrast Omicron BA.1 variant infections decreased in England, Wales and Scotland with an uncertain trend in Northern Ireland ow.ly/b05t50IgX0v
Our #COVID19 insights interactive tool shows the latest trends in infections, deaths and hospitalisations.
Data on COVID-19 from the ONS, Joint Biosecurity Centre and @UKHSA highlights the state of the pandemic across the UK ow.ly/b2S450IgXOC
#COVID19 hospitalisations increased in England in the week ending 6 March 2022, with most regions and age groups seeing increases ow.ly/ws4v50IgXZ7
Positive #COVID19 hospital admissions in children aged under 15 years (for 27 Feb 2022), were over one a half times the peak admission for these age groups from 17 Jan 2021 ow.ly/ws4v50IgXZ7
When infections were at the highest level in the second wave (week ending 9 Jan 2021), the hospital admission rate was over three times higher, and the death rate involving #COVID19 was almost eight times higher than in the most recent week ow.ly/b2S450IgXOC
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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.