Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions the covid-19 variant 1.617 has been identified in tests in each week since 4 January 2021.
The following table shows the number of occasions COVID-19 variant B.1617 has been identified in tests in each week since 22 February 2021. There are no cases from sequenced positive tests prior to this date.
Week Beginning | Cases |
22 February 2021 | 2 |
1 March 2021 | 6 |
8 March 2021 | 11 |
15 March 2021 | 18 |
22 March 2021 | 19 |
29 March 2021 | 30 |
5 April 2021 | 33 |
12 April 2021 | 33 |
19 April 2021 | 1 |
Null | 2 |
Note:
Data includes two cases which have not been matched to a Second Generation Surveillance System record and so no date exists. The date refers to the date of a positive test. There is approximately a one to two week lag between the point of a positive test to the sequenced results entering into the data feed.