Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds data on the number of people who have been infected by covid-19 more than once.

The UK Health Security Agency monitors weekly COVID-19 cases, including numbers and rates of COVID-19 reinfections in England. As of 9 January 2022, 425,890 possible re-infections had been identified in England since the first recorded re-infection with 12.2 million first positive or primary infections in the same period. The weekly rates of possible reinfections per 1,000 first infections closely follow the profile for first infections.