Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the rate of infection with covid-19 is for (a) children aged 0-10 and (b) adults over 18 years old in the UK.
We do not have the rate of infection (R) of COVID-19 for different age groups. The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies publishes the R number for the United Kingdom on a weekly basis.
R is not usually a useful measure on its own and needs to be considered alongside the number of new cases. More information can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk