Care Homes: Coronavirus

(asked on 1st February 2021) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 17th February 2021

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.

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