The new COVID wave is upon us. But the problem is the ‘Jubilee’ narrative currently being reported in the media. It makes people think this wave was made out of a one-off event when infections had actually been increasing long before the Jubilee celebrations with two new sub-variants that escape immunity from past infections and vaccinations.
The Zoe COVID Study’s positive symptomatic case estimate is currently 181,093 cases (+28.9% in a week). The 7-day estimate shows 1,131,012 cases in a week (+24.2%). On average, it is now estimated that at least 161,573 people are still infected by coronavirus every day in the UK.
🙈🙉🙊 #CovidIsNotOver
First published in June 2022.
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Latest UK Dashboard
Reminder on data reporting in the UK from the UKHSA:
▫ England reports every working day
▫ Scotland reports on Mondays and Thursdays only
▫ Wales reports on Thursdays only
▫ Northern Ireland has stopped reporting altogether
▫ No reporting at the weekend

(Source: UKHSA | ZOE | ONS)
Zoe COVID Study & ONS Infection Survey UK Latest Estimates

■ Zoe COVID Study
■ ONS Infection Survey UK Latest Estimates
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)
covid tweets
Many of us have pointed to case reports from earlier waves that show MIS-C with an acute hepatitis predominant presentation. So yes, it's very likely not 'new', but a consequence of mass infection. And yes, pandemic related!
— Dr. Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) June 17, 2022
Johnson promised 100million vaccines to poor countries…
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) June 18, 2022
How do you think that’s worked out?
1) Barely a third have been delivered
2) Govt profiteered by charging poor counties via aid deductions
3) Govt even added a mark-up on the UK's original pricehttps://t.co/PMp9SQkdFV
The #USA takes 'another important step forward in its fight against #COVID19. @CDCgov
— Dr Joe Pajak 💙 CSci NHS FT Governor (@JoePajak) June 18, 2022
Following the 'Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation that all children 6 months through 5 years should receive a COVID-19 vaccine'.
Britain?https://t.co/BeNjhlmjxL
Free LATERAL FLOW TESTS and MASK MANDATES need to come back otherwise we are going to see a huge spike in COVID cases and preventable suffering. I can hardly believe the negligence of the UK GOVERNMENT. The costs of inaction will great exceed the costs of action.
— Dr Matt Prescott (@mattprescott) June 18, 2022
we need your help
Since February 2022, the UKHSA has slowly reduced the publishing of its daily COVID updates, following the UK Government’s narrative that we should all “live with the virus”.
England now reports on weekdays, Scotland reports on Mondays and Thursdays only, Wales reports on Thursdays only, and Northern Ireland has stopped reporting altogether.
The virus doesn’t take a break at weekends.
It doesn’t infect people from time to time.
It doesn’t stop at a border either.
The virus still spreads and kills people every day in the UK and around the world. COVID-19 is NOT over.
We, at PMP, have decided to continue to publish the latest COVID data available every day, especially the Zoe COVID Study estimates – probably more accurate than the UK Government’s own data since free testing has ended in England, and the ONS COVID Infection Survey estimates.
Please, support our work through our crowdfunding to help us to continue our COVID reporting: Donate now.
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variant news
■ 🧬 COG-UK sequencing
(Source: COG-UK)
long covid
🧩 Long COVID
- Almost 1 in 20 older pupils have had long COVID | ONS
- As the pandemic ebbs, long-haul Covid still drains patients and confounds doctors | The Guardian
- Long COVID found in 20% of US cases — CDC
- Is Omicron Creating More Cases of Long Covid? — Bloomberg
- Long Covid can lead to trauma and depression — Sunday Times
🚨 2.0 million people currently live with long COVID in the UK (vs 1.8 million last month)
🚨 3.1% of the UK population currently live with long COVID (vs 2.8%)
🚨 1 in 33 people in the UK has long COVID
🚨 Long COVID symptoms adversely affect the day-to-day activities of 1.4 million people, 71% of long COVID sufferers (vs 1.2 million)
🚨 Of those, 398,000 people (20%) are “limited a lot” (vs 346,000)
🚨 593,000 (30%) first had COVID-19 before Alpha became the main variant; 239,000 (12%) in the Alpha period, 427,000 (21%) in the Delta period, and 619,000 (31%) in the Omicron period.
🚨 Most common symptoms of long COVID:
▫ fatigue (55%)
▫ shortness of breath (32%)
▫ cough (23%)
▫ muscle ache (23%)
🚨 Prevalence of long COVID is greatest in people:
▫ aged 35-69 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)
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
📈 Full Daily UK #COVID19 Charts & Comments via #LatestCovid: www.pmp-magazine.com/tag/latest-covid/
🦠 Everything #COVID19: www.pmp-magazine.com/covid19/
🗃️ Sources: @CovidGenomicsUK | @UKHSA | @ONS
🧮 Special thanks: @JoePajak | #NHS | NHS staff

— AUTHOR —
▫ J.N. PAQUET, Author & Journalist, Editor of PMP Magazine.
Sources
- Text: This piece was first published in PMP Magazine on 18 June 2022. | The authors write in a personal capacity.
- Data cross-referenced with the latest official data from the UK dashboard.
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