Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many care homes have experienced outbreaks of covid-19 in each week since the start of the outbreak.
Since 8 October 2020, Public Health England has published data on COVID-19 in care homes as part of its wider national flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports which are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports
The data on care homes reports on the weekly percentage of new cases in care homes. Data on the number of new cases are published alongside the report in the supplementary tables.