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UK: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases

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What you should know about this indicator

Due to limited testing, the number of confirmed cases is lower than the true number of infections.

UK: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases
Number of daily cases of COVID-19. Smoothed with by averaging with a 7-day rolling-window.
Source
Government of the United Kingdom (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
August 13, 2024
Unit
cases

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Data collected from UKHSA on COVID-19.

Retrieved on
August 13, 2024
Retrieved from
https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/
Citation
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Government of the United Kingdom, UK Health Security Agency 2024.

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“Data Page: UK: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases”, part of the following publication: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2020) - “COVID-19 Pandemic”. Data adapted from Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-daily-new-covid-cases [online resource]
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Government of the United Kingdom (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data

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Government of the United Kingdom (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “UK: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases” [dataset]. Government of the United Kingdom, “UKHSA data dashboard” [original data]. Retrieved November 24, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-daily-new-covid-cases