Prevalence remains high

UK, high prevalence maintained End of September Based on 39,742 recent swab tests, between 11th and 25th September 2021 58,126 new daily symptomatic cases Based on PCR and LFT test data In the fully vaccinated population, 14,352 new daily symptomatic cases Overall UK Prevalence On average 1 in 93 people in the UK have symptomatic COVID Increase mostly in under 19s Uptick in the number of active cases in people aged 20-50 Cases remain low and stable in contributors over the age of 50 UK R around 1.1 England, 1.1 Wales, 1.1 (currently increasing) Scotland, 1.0 ZOE’s predicted Long COVID incidence rate 804 people a day will go on to experience symptoms for longer than 12 weeks Professor Tim Spector We’re seeing infections being passed up the generational ladder, likely from school children to their parents. Most of these new adult infections are in the under 50s, who still have a relatively low risk of being admitted to hosp