Coronavirus: Young People

(asked on 6th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 28 September 2020 to Question 86107 and 30 November 2020 to Question 99041 on Coronavirus: Disease Control, if he will publish the data to substantiate the reasons for the spike in covid-19 infection rates of people under (a) 30 years old and (b) 25 years old in (i) York and (ii) the UK.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 26th February 2021

Rates in York corresponded to growth rates seen throughout the United Kingdom for the second half of December 2020 and which continued to climb in the first half of January 2021 for all ages, but particularly in 17 to 21 year olds and 20 to 29 year olds. Similarly, test positivity increased until the end of December 2020 among 10 to 29 year olds, plateauing and then decreasing more recently. The sharp increase in York is similar to that seen in other parts of the country and reflects widespread community transmission. Data is published at the following link:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

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