▫ 131,054 COVID cases in 7 days on the UK government dashboard📈
▫ 1,384,677 estimated symptomatic cases by ZOE📈
▫ 10,386 hospital admissions in 7 days 🚨
▫ 14,929 patients currently in hospital 🚨
▫ 321 patients in ICU 🚨
▫ 2,266 deaths in 7 days 🚨
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First published in April 2022.
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latest details
- 341 deaths due to coronavirus in the latest report (today for the last 24 hours).
- 16,579 new coronavirus infections in the latest report (today for the last 24 hours) and the actual number UK-wide is potentially significantly higher, always worth checking out the data provided by the ONS and by the King’s College team in the accompanying tables.
- The total number of coronavirus infections reported across the UK in the last 7 days was 131,054, while in the last 28 days 1,009,901 infections have been reported.
- 2,266 deaths due to coronavirus have been reported in the last 7 days.
- The number of deaths in the past week equates on average to around 324 deaths each of the past 7 days. If this was to be the “new normal” for daily deaths caused by COVID-19, then annually this would equate to around 118,156 deaths across the UK.
- Meanwhile, a total of 6,456 deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported across the UK in the last 28 days.
- 1,328 COVID-19 hospital admissions occurred on 22 April 2022.
- 14,929 patients suffering from COVID-19 are currently occupying hospital beds – reported as of 25 April 2022.
- 321 COVID-19 patients are occupying mechanical ventilation beds – according to the data reported on 25 April 2022.
- All three of these healthcare measures a continuing concern for our seriously under-pressure NHS.
SO FAR:
- 817 days since the first infection due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus was reported in Britain (31 January 2020)
- 781 days since the first reported death (6 March 2020). Coronavirus has now been responsible for infecting around 22 million people in the UK (according to the official reported positive cases data)
- In this time, the virus has been responsible for at least 174,144 deaths (within 28 days of a first positive test result). Official data also currently indicate there have been (at least) 190,124 deaths in total, where the deceased person’s death certificate mentioned COVID-19 as one of the causes, registered up to Friday 8 April 2022, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)

(Source: UK Health Security Agency)
latest guidance
■ UK Government’s List of symptoms of COVID-19
After two years without updating its list of just three symptoms of COVID-19 (a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to the sense of smell or taste), the NHS has finally updated its list of symptoms of COVID:
😩 Shortness of breath
🥱 Feeling tired or exhausted
🤕 An aching body
🤯 A headache
🤐 A sore throat
🤧 A blocked or runny nose
😞 Loss of appetite
🥴 Diarrhoea
🤮 Feeling sick or being sick






(Source: Gov.uk)
latest news
Just over 10% of deaths registered in England and Wales, in the week ending 15 April 2022, mentioned “novel coronavirus (COVID-19)”. There were 9,919 deaths during that period (Week 15), 1,003 of which mentioned COVID-19, although those figures will have been affected by the Good Friday bank holiday.
More than one in two people in each UK country have had COVID-19 since the start of the Coronavirus Infection Survey. Between 27 April 2020 and 11 February 2022, more than 7 in every 10 people in England (70.7%) are estimated to have had COVID-19. In Northern Ireland, a similar proportion (72.2%) are estimated to have had COVID-19 between 30 June 2020 and 11 February 2022.
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covid tweets
“Natural immunity” is generally only best for the variants of #SARSCoV2 that you already had! Not necessarily against future variants. We epidemiologists have been trying to warn about this for a long time, but always drowned out by “mass infection + natural herd immunity” crowd. pic.twitter.com/4ao7jFAvuG
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 26, 2022
The hepatitis in children story is not the ‘live with covid’ story some think it is. Because if it’s linked to covid that’s bad and if it’s caused by another virus that transmits like covid that’s bad too.
— Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻 (@Dr2NisreenAlwan) April 26, 2022
First out of the pandemic? pic.twitter.com/cAUwNR8hNG
— Dr Dan Goyal (@danielgoyal) April 26, 2022
At what point can we just abandon the use of Perspex screens between people on tv panel and quiz shows? Screens work for short duration face to face exposure, but duration of time filming for tv long range aerosols will go around them. Ventilation and air cleaning far more useful
— Prof Cath Noakes #Ventilate 😷 💙 (@CathNoakes) April 25, 2022
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“451 deaths have been reported on the latest UK government dashboard today in relation to the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, 2,266 deaths due to COVID have been reported in the last 7 days, and 6,456 deaths in the last 28 days. COVID deaths continue to increase.” – Dr Joe Pajak.
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📈 UK COVID-19 data

(Source: UK Health Security Agency)
■ 🧮 Case & Death Totals
🦠21,994,809 positive cases so far to date (recorded) – Since the first case was reported at the end of January 2020
🕯️174,144 deaths so far – Number recorded within 28 days of first positive test result – since the first reported death on 6 March 2020
🕯️ 190,124 total deaths – Total number of people whose death certificate mentioned COVID-19 as one of the causes – Registered up to Friday 8 April 2022 – according to the UK dashboard
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(Source: UK Health Security Agency + Public Health Wales
+ Public Health Scotland + HSC NI + ONS)
Note: Data cross-referenced with the latest official data from the UK dashboard.
PMP Xtra
Total UK population: 67,081,234 (last year: 66,796,800), via ONS (subject to changes in population over the year). These figures were updated on 25 June 2021. (Source: ONS)
long covid
🧩 Long COVID UK
🚨 1.7 million people currently live with long COVID in the UK
🚨 2.7% of the UK population currently live with long COVID
🚨 1 in 37 people in the UK has long COVID
🚨 Long COVID symptoms adversely affect the day-to-day activities of 1.1 million people (67% of long COVID sufferers)
🚨 Of those, 322,000 people (19%) are “limited a lot”
🚨 Most common symptoms of long COVID:
▫ fatigue (51%)
▫ shortness of breath (34%)
▫ loss of smell (28%)
▫ muscle ache (24%)
🚨 Prevalence of long COVID is greatest in people:
▫ aged 35-49 years
▫ females
▫ living in more deprived areas
▫ working in social care, teaching, education or health care
▫ with another activity-limiting health condition or disability
(Source: ONS)
education
- Absence & Attendance in Schools

additional data
■ Weekly New Hospital Admissions for COVID-19 (per million)
■ Cumulative number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK
(Source: ONS)
(Sources: UK Health Security Agency + Welsh Government
+ Scottish Government + N-I Ministry of Health)
■ Population Testing Positive for COVID-19
(Source: ONS)
■ Number of contact tracing alerts sent (England & Wales)
(Source: NHS)
(Source: University of Oxford)
data sources
📚 Data Sources:
- Daily summary: Coronavirus in the UK | UK Government
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) NHS Advice | PMP Magazine
- Variants: distribution of cases data | UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
- Vaccination Data | UK Government
- What’s new | UK Government
Notes:
- UK data will not necessarily fully reflect the numbers in specific measures, e.g., where there are data issues, delays due to IT issues, or issues with reporting arrangements for the four nations. It is important therefore to note the specific reporting cycles of UK COVID-19 data when looking at how data are presented. Seven-day rolling averages are often used to help ‘smooth’ the various reporting cycles across different nations; nevertheless, care is needed when seeking to gain an accurate picture of the situation at any time. The deaths’ data used in the charts below relate to deaths ‘attributed to COVID-19 – each following a reported positive test result for COVID-19 within 28 days of their death’.
- From the week of 21 February 2022, the UK Health Security Agency will stop publishing dashboard updates at weekends. The dashboard will be updated as usual from Monday to Friday. Daily cases and deaths by report date published on Mondays will include figures from the weekend. These will not be separated out to show daily figures for Saturday and Sunday.
- Further detail can be found at the UK Health Security Agency.
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🗃️ Sources: @CovidGenomicsUK | @UKHSA | @ONS
🧮 Special thanks: @JoePajak | #NHS | NHS staff

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— AUTHORS —
▫ Dr Joe Pajak, PhD in physical chemistry: exploring the data, governor of an NHS FT hospital.
▫ J.N. PAQUET, Author & Journalist, Editor of PMP Magazine.
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- Text: This piece was first published in PMP Magazine on 26 April 2022. | The authors write in a personal capacity.
- Data cross-referenced with the latest official data from the UK dashboard.
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