Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions, alongside Cabinet colleagues, with the South African authorities to establish whether the latest official WHO figures which indicate an 80 per cent reduction in new cases of covid-19 within the last month are accurate.

There are no plans to do so. The UK Health Security Agency does not review the accuracy of official World Health Organization (WHO) data from other countries. The Government continues to engage with South African colleagues and other international partners such as the WHO, foreign ministries and public health laboratories to enable data sharing and strengthen global surveillance.