Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey pilot: England, 21 May 2020
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today published the second regular weekly release analysing results from the COVID-19 Infection Survey.
Within this bulletin, we refer to the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections within the community population; community in this instance refers to private households, and it excludes those in hospitals, care homes or other institutional settings.
Main points:
- At any given time between 4 May and 17 May 2020, it is estimated that an average of 0.25% of the community population had COVID-19 (95% confidence interval: 0.16% to 0.38%)
- This equates to an average of 137,000 people in England (95% confidence interval: 85,000 to 208,000); a similar level to the previous estimate, indicating that the number of people with COVID-19 is relatively stable.
The estimated number of people in England that had COVID-19 at any point in time during the two weeks from 4 May to 17 May is slightly less than the estimate we reported in our publication on Thursday 14 May, which covered the period 27 April to 10 May. This change is relatively small and should be interpreted as showing that the number of people in England that have COVID-19 has stayed relatively stable.
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