Coronavirus

(asked on 2nd October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's updated estimate is of the number of daily new covid-19 cases during the peak week in March 2020.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 22nd October 2020

The following table shows the estimated number of new COVID-19 infections each day between 20 March and 26 March 2020, which is considered to be the peak of the epidemic in England.

Estimated number of COVID-19 cases between 20 March and 26 March 2020 in England, shown in thousands

Date

Upper Confidence Interval

Median

Lower Confidence Interval

20 March 2020

292

219

180

21 March 2020

361

272

223

22 March 2020

443

335

275

23 March 2020

542

412

338

24 March 2020

399

305

252

25 March 2020

205

153

124

26 March 2020

233

176

144

Notes:

  1. Source: Latest Report on Nowcasting and Forecasting – 12 October 2020, available to view at the following link:

https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/tackling-covid-19/nowcasting-and-forecasting-of-covid-19/

  1. Note that modelled estimates of daily incidence are liable to change as data accrue.
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