Tuberculosis

(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of TB between 2019 and 2021.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 27th January 2022

The UK Health Security Agency has undertaken an analyses of tuberculosis (TB) trends in 2019 and 2020. This showed that the number of cases reported in England declined from 4,725 in 2019 to 4,125 in 2020. This represents an overall decline in the rates of TB to 8.4 per 100,100 in 2019 to 7.3 per 100,000 in 2020. An analysis for 2021 is still underway and will be published in October 2022.

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