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Coronavirus Tracker
UK Coronavirus Tracker
These charts show the number of new cases and deaths in each local authority each week. You can use the buttons at the top of the chart to switch between viewing the entire pandemic, or the past 6 months specifically. You can view up to four areas at one time, however just be aware that the figures are not per capita.
The case figures are based on the specimen date (the week the test was actually conducted, rather than just the week the result was reported), but the death figures are based on the registration date (the week the death was registered, and not when it actually occurred). There is typically a three-day gap between a death occurring and it being registered, however, this gap can be larger over bank holidays and especially over the Christmas/New years period (resulting in delayed reporting).
The case data for Northern Ireland stopped being released in mid May 2022.
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These charts show the number of new cases and deaths in each local authority each week. You can use the buttons at the top of the chart to switch between viewing the entire pandemic, or the past 6 months specifically. You can view up to four areas at one time, however just be aware that the figures are not per capita.
The case figures are based on the specimen date (the week the test was actually conducted, rather than just the week the result was reported), but the death figures are based on the registration date (the week the death was registered, and not when it actually occurred). There is typically a three-day gap between a death occurring and it being registered, however, this gap can be larger over bank holidays and especially over the Christmas/New years period (resulting in delayed reporting).
The case data for Northern Ireland stopped being released in mid May 2022.
This map shows the total number of cases in each local authority since the beginning of the pandemic, per 100k population.
You can hover over or select an area on the map to see more detailed information about it, and if you zoom in a label will appear which shows the exact number of cases in that area (not just the per 100k figure).
Figures are rounded up to the nearest 0.1. The case data for Northern Ireland stopped being released in May 2022. The data for Wales does not include LFD tests, so will be unrealistically lower than the rest of the UK.
This table shows the total number of cases in each local authority since the beginning of the pandemic, in both whole and per 100k population numbers.
You can select a column header to sort the table by that column, and also use the search bar to find one or more specific areas. The search bar can also be used to filter the table by region, by typing something like ‘Scotland’ or ‘London’ or ‘NorthWest’. There is also a ‘Cities’ filter which will just show you a number of the larger cities.
The case data for Northern Ireland stopped being released in May 2022. The data for Wales does not include LFD tests, so will be unrealistically lower than the rest of the UK.
This table shows the total number of deaths in each local authority since the beginning of the pandemic, in both whole and per 100k population numbers.
You can select a column header to sort the table by that column, and also use the search bar to find one or more specific areas. The search bar can also be used to filter the table by region, by typing something like ‘Scotland’ or ‘London’ or ‘NorthWest’. There is also a ‘Cities’ filter which will just show you a number of the larger cities.
This map shows the total number of deaths in each local authority since the beginning of the pandemic, per 100k population.
You can hover over or select an area on the map to see more detailed information about it, and if you zoom in a label will appear which shows the exact number of deaths in that area (not just the per 100k figure).
Figures are rounded up to the nearest 0.1.
This table gives a detailed overview of the covid situation in each Nation, English Region, and Local Authority. There is also a row for the UK as a whole, for reference. I’ll cover each section in more detail below, but just be aware that the figures shown here may not sum to the national total, due to missing location data.
You can select a column header to sort the table by that column, and also use the search bar to find one or more specific areas. The search bar can also be used to filter the table by Nation and English Region, by typing something like ‘Scotland’ or ‘London’ or ‘NorthWest’. There is also a ‘Cities’ filter which will just show you a number of the larger cities, and you can also search for ‘Nation’ or ‘Region’ to show just those. You can type more than one thing in there too.. for example, you could type ‘Scotland Wales’ or ‘Glasgow Edinburgh Manchester Belfast’ or ‘YorkshireHumber EastMidlands’.
Area Information
This section gives some random information about each area, including its population, land size, population density, and median age. All of these factors may have affected how the pandemic played out in each area, so I thought they would be interesting to include! The source for all that data is here.
Cases
This section gives a detailed overview of cases, both in whole numbers and per 100k population numbers. The case data for Northern Ireland stopped being released in May 2022. The data for Wales does not include LFD tests, so will be unrealistically lower than the rest of the UK.
Deaths
This section gives a detailed overview of deaths, both in whole numbers and per 100k population numbers.
Share of the UKs…
This section gives a little glimpse of each areas share of the UKs total figures. It’s not too useful, but I thought it would still be interesting to include. Just bear in mind that the demographics vary quite a bit between areas, so one area might be more susceptible to high case rates, and another might have more eligible people to get vaccinated, ect.
The chart shows how many cases and deaths each area has had throughout the pandemic, per 100k population.
By default, the chart shows the figures for Scotland and each of the English regions. But you can use the drop-down menu to choose one of these individual areas and see all of the local authorities within it.
The higher an area is, the more cases it had (per 100k population), and the further right an area is, the more deaths it had (per 100k population).
The case data for Northern Ireland stopped being released in May 2022. The data for Wales does not include LFD tests, so will be unrealistically lower than the rest of the UK.
Cases
This chart shows the weekly case rate in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the larger English Regions, and each local authority in the UK, per 100k population. The case rate here is defined as the number of new cases identified in each area each week, based on specimen date, per 100k population. The case data for Northern Ireland stopped being released in May 2022. The data for Wales does not include LFD tests, so from the beginning of 2022 onwards will be unrealistically lower than the rest of the UK.
Deaths
This chart shows the weekly death rate in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the larger English Regions, per 100k population. The death rate here is defined as the number of new deaths occurring in each area over the past week, based on the date of registration, per 100k population.
This chart is based on data from the ONS Coronavirus Infection Survey. It provides an accurate estimate of the percentage of people in each nation/region who had Covid-19 each week. As a quick reference, 1% = 1 in 100 people, 2% = 1 in 50, 5% = 1 in 20, ect.
By randomly testing sections of the population and then using modelling, the ONS were able to work out roughly how many people across each nation had the virus each week (in a more accurate way than just relying on positive tests). For more information about the data and how it all works, you can visit here.
Please note that these figures are only estimates, and the credible intervals are not shown on this chart. It is possible that the actual figures may be a bit higher or lower than what is shown here.
This chart stopped being updated in March 2023.
Each Week by Nation/Region
This chart is based on data from the ONS Coronavirus Infection Survey. It provides an accurate estimate of the percentage of people in each nation/region who had Covid-19 each week. As a quick reference, 1% = 1 in 100 people, 2% = 1 in 50, 5% = 1 in 20, ect.
By randomly testing sections of the population and then using modelling, the ONS were able to work out roughly how many people across each nation had the virus each week (in a more accurate way than just relying on positive tests). For more information about the data and how it all works, you can visit here.
Please note that these figures are only estimates, and the credible intervals are not shown on this chart. It is possible that the actual figures may be a bit higher or lower than what is shown here.
This chart stopped being updated in March 2023.
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About Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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F.A.Q
Me! I’m John, a 28-year-old Cat lover and former student at the University of the Highlands and Islands (Argyll College). In March 2020 I started tracking the Scottish Coronavirus (Covid-19) data in a spreadsheet out of interest, which eventually led to me making this page.
Rather than buying a new domain to host it, I just added it to my ‘Travelling Tabby’ website. This is a travel blog, and has absolutely nothing to do with the Coronavirus. But still, feel free to look around if you want (although there isn’t much on the blog, as most of my free time since the start of 2020 was spent on this page)!
After three years and 800 updates, I updated the page for the final time in May 2023. You can read a little about that here. The page has been adjusted a little since to have less focus on ‘this week’ figures, and more focus on the ‘total’ figures. It will remain up as long as Travelling Tabby remains up!
If you need to contact me, you can use the contact form on this page, or email me at [email protected]
Loads! Here are some of them:
Scotland Coronavirus Tracker – Another page by me, keeping track of more Scotland specific data.
Worldometers – Worldwide data in an easy to read table format.
WHO – Worldwide data with an attractive design.
Our World in Data – A large website with heaps of data on the pandemic across the world.
NYT – Great for detailed USA data.
Public Health Scotland – A ‘Weekly national respiratory infection and COVID-19 statistical report’ that gives the official update on Covid-19 in Scotland.
Public Health Wales – The official Welsh dashboard, with some additional figures on there (although it stopped being updated in May 2022).
Department of Health – The official Northern Ireland dashboard, with some additional figures on there (although it stopped being updated in May 2022).
UK Government – The official UK dashboard, with some additional figures on there (their interactive map here is especially nice, and it allows you to see very local English figures)
@LawrenceGilder – A Twitter account that provides an easy to read yet comprehensive weekly Covid-19 updates for the UK.
Covid-19 Risk – A neat website that lets you calculate the level of risk involved in attending an event in your area, based on recent case rates.
ZOE – An app that allows users to report Covid-19 symptoms, and from that, estimates the current prevalence of the virus across the UK (works best when viewing on their app).
Yeah! I used to post different types of charts and comparisons on Twitter! I don’t really do this anymore, but I might every once in a while.
Also, here is a link to the spreadsheet I use. Feel free to download a copy. It is a bit of a mess, but it could be useful if you were looking for some raw data.
Here is a list of all the official pages involving Coronavirus figures for the UK (that I know of). If you know of any more which you think should be included, please let me know!
UK / England
UK Gov – A page looking at the UK covid wide data. It includes a ton of information on cases, deaths, testing hospitalizations, and vaccinations.
UK Gov Weekly R Number – A page that provides the most recent R number and growth rate for England and the English regions (although it stopped being updated in December 2022).
ONS Weekly Infection Survey – A weekly report that looks at covid rates throughout the UK, and estimates the total number of people who currently have the virus (although it stopped being updated in March 2023).
ONS Weekly Death Reports – Another weekly report looking at all deaths throughout the UK. Additional detailed figures are included for England and Wales, covering deaths by location, excess deaths, and more (for the Scotland/N. Ireland version of this, look for the NRS and NISRA reports).
ONS Monthly Long Covid Study – A monthly report that looks at the prevalence of Long Covid throughout the UK.
ONS Additional Insights – A weekly dashboard that keeps track of various metrics across the UK, such as cases, hospitalizations, vaccinations, antibodies, well-being, lifestyle, work, and more (although it stopped being updated in March 2023).
COG-UK – A neat website that keeps track of which variants of the virus which are currently active throughout the UK.
NHS England – Detailed figures for English hospital activity, deaths, and vaccinations.
NHS Test & Trace – Figures on the number of people being ‘pinged’ through the NHS Covid-19 app.
Scotland
PHS Weekly Report – A ‘Weekly national respiratory infection and COVID-19 statistical report’ that gives the official update on Covid-19 in Scotland.
PHS Weekly Dashboard – A dashboard of the case and hospital data included in the above report.
PHS Weekly Vaccination Dashboard – A dashboard that provides the most recent Covid-19 vaccination data in Scotland.
NRS Weekly Report – A weekly report looking at deaths. It also includes extra information, like excess deaths, location of death, and age of death. Once a month a very detailed report comes out, looking at factors such as deprivation, pre-existing conditions, intermediate zones, and so forth. In 2023 this report stopped being updated, but the most recent figures for Covid-19 deaths are still included in the ‘Deaths registered weekly in Scotland‘ releases here.
PHS Weekly Report – A weekly report giving a good overview of the current Covid-19 situation in Scotland, taking multiple sources into account and providing additional information (although it stopped being updated in November 2022).
PHS Wider Impacts Dashboard – A dashboard looking at a range of general health factors and how the pandemic has impacted them (primarily through comparisons to previous years). Such as total hospital appointments, A&E attendances, cancer diagnoses, and much more.
PHS Education Dashboard – A weekly dashboard looking at cases, testing, and hospital admissions in children and those working in the education sector (although it stopped being updated in May 2022).
ScotGov Modelling the Pandemic – A weekly report which provides an update of the current R number, and covers other areas relating to the current prevalence of the virus in Scotland (although it stopped being updated in December 2022).
Wales
Public Health Wales – The official Welsh dashboard, including a wide range of figures surrounding the pandemic in Wales (although it stopped being updated in May 2022).
Welsh Government Weekly R Number – A page with a list of reports released that discuss the Covid-19 situation in Wales. They used to be weekly releases, including the latest R number, but seem to be released very infrequently now.
Northern Ireland
Department of Health – The official Northern Ireland dashboard, including a wide range of figures surrounding the pandemic in Northern Ireland (although it stopped being updated in May 2022).
Department of Health Weekly R Number – A page listing weekly reports, in which an update of the most recent R number is included, plus some other figures (although it stopped being updated in May 2022).
NISRA Weekly Death Report – Weekly death reports looking at deaths, and also including extra information, such as excess deaths, location of deaths, and so forth.
Sorry!
One issue might be that you’re using Firefox. This browser seems to break the page for a lot of people, and I have no idea what is causing it. My only suggestion would be to try viewing the page on another browser.
If things in general aren’t updating, then it might be that your browser isn’t showing you the most recent version of this page. If you view the page in private/incognito mode, then the issue should go away.
If you have any other issues, please let me know!
It’s a WordPress site, built with Elementor. That covers most of the page, but all the graphs/charts/tables are embedded from a range of different places!
These are Datawrapper, Flourish, and Everviz. The Datawrapper and Flourish charts will mention their name in the footer, and if there’s no mention, it is an Everviz chart. Oh, and the non Datawrapper maps are made with MapSVG!
I’d be happy to answer any other questions about it, but it is quite simple. I’m not really any good at programming/automation, and I’m new to all of this, so it is mostly just a lot of copying/pasting to get the website updated.
Additional Information / Clarifications
Sorry for any confusion with this! With data coming in from so many sources, with varying definitions, and always being backdated and changed, it’s hard to keep on top of. If there are any large issues for the day, I’ll put a little heading banner at the top of the page just to make people aware of it.
The local authority/regional figures will rarely ever sum up to match the national total. This is a result of missing location data, and numbers constantly being adjusted.
In the current stage of the pandemic (May 2023), the Scottish local figures tend to be excluded from the data most weeks, for some reason. These are still visible on the Scotland page here.
If you are confused about something, please let me know! It may be an error on my end, and if not, I’d be more than happy to help explain it.
The Coronavirus Infection Survey works by randomly testing sections of the population with PCR tests, and then using modelling with the results to work out roughly how many people across each nation in total have the virus each week (you can read their methodology in more detail here).
These figures are used in the ‘Percentage of People with Covid-19 Each Week’ chart, and are commonly referred to in ways such as ‘1 in 50 people had Covid-19 last week’.
In contrast to this, the normal case figures simply show how many people have reported a positive Covid-19 test each week of the pandemic.
Both sets of figures have their own uses. The Infection Survey figures are far more accurate in working out how many people in total have the virus each week. This is because not everyone who catches the virus will get tested for it to be included in the case figures (either because they didn’t want to, or because they didn’t have any symptoms and didn’t feel the need to).
The case figures are more useful when trying to view the situation at a local level, as very limited data is available for this through the Infection Survey. The case figures are also around two weeks more up to date than the Infection Survey figures, so can show the most recent trends better.
In 2022, Covid-19 testing was scaled back substantially. This affected the case figures and really hampered how useful they were. While they can still show recent trends and local hotspots, they are not as useful as they once were, and do not even nearly show the total number of cases in circulation.
Comparatively, the Infection Survey figures were not impacted by these changes in testing, so remained as accurate as before. Although the Coronavirus Infection Survey did end in March 2023.
In addition to the headline figures showing what percentage of each nation had Covid-19 each week, the ONS also estimated how many new infections were occurring each day for parts of the pandemic. These figures give a good idea of the actual case levels, versus the reported case levels. You can view those figures for Scotland here.
Sources
Most of the charts on this page will have their source linked directly underneath them. But still, here is a list of all the main sources used on this page:
UK Gov Dashboard – Nearly all of the data comes from here. If it isn’t mentioned elsewhere below, then it will come from here.
Our World In Data – Any international, non-UK data, will come from here.
ONS Weekly Death Report – Most of the death data comes from here. Additional data is available for Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA).
ONS Coronavirus Infection Survey – The data here is used for the ‘Percentage of People with Covid-19 Each Week by Nation’ figures.
ONS Population Estimate – Population estimates for the UK, and also all of the extra stuff included in the detailed table on the local page (land size, population density, median age, etc).
I think that covers all of it! Many of the figures on the page aren’t included in these sources, as I just work it out myself (stuff like the percentage change from last week). But if you need help finding anything else, just send me a message I’d be happy to help!
Data Definitions
As just about all of the data on this page comes from the official UK Gov Dashboard, I would recommend looking at their metrics definition page here to see exactly what is included in each metric for each nation.
Additionally, on most charts you can click the header, and a drop down will appear that gives some more specific information about what it shows.
Below are some of the frequently requested additions for the page, with an explanation as to why they are not currently available:
R Number
The R numbers were on this page before, however, they were removed at the start of 2022. The reason for this is that the ‘latest’ R number released lags behind 2-3 weeks. So we could have been in a situation where cases were rising rapidly, yet the R number was still sitting at 0.8 – 0.9, reflecting the situation a few weeks before.
It wasn’t very useful in that regard, and was actually quite misleading too. The R number is still released once a week though (each Friday). To view the latest figures, try looking here: England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland
Cases / Hospital Admissions / Deaths by Vaccination Status
Unfortunately this data is very complex and difficult to display properly, so I have not added it to my page. There is also no UK wide data being published on this.
My best recommendation would be to look at this weekly report from the UKHSA, which shows figures of that sort for England.
Deaths by Pre Existing Condition
There doesn’t seem to be too much data released about this, so I can’t really add anything to the page for it. Especially not at a UK wide level.
Positivity Rates
While each nation releases similar case/death/vaccination figures, they do not release similar testing or positivity rate figures. It is not possible to work out a UK wide positivity rate, or even make equal comparisons between the four nations, as each nation uses different methodology and releases their data in different ways.
Vaccination Uptake by Age
I used to have some figures showing this on the page, but there isn’t any single source for it, so collecting all the data was a bit too time-consuming. You can view vaccination uptake figures for each nation individually here: England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland
Please note that each nation is using different population figures, so comparisons between the four of them won’t be equal.
Vaccinations by Local Authority
Adding this would be quite a lot of work, and the data isn’t available in the same format across the UK, so it isn’t really possible to do anyways. But you can see local figures for each nation here: England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland
This page will no longer be updated, sorry about that!
The current Covid-19 data is released each Thursday by Gov.UK here.
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Disclaimer
The data on this page is obtained from official sources, and it is accurate to the best of my knowledge. However, I am only human! I sometimes make miscalculations, or typos. Don’t always take the information on this page as fact and base decisions on it.
All the sources are listed above, as is the spreadsheet I make all my calculations in, so feel free to double check the data and let me know if you think something isn’t correct!
This website is not associated with the UK government, NHS, or any other organization. It is just run by an individual who does not value his free time.