Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 30th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the 5.7 million people who have been tested as covid-19 positive in the UK in the last six months have tested positive more than once in that period.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 13th December 2021

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not made an assessment of the proportion of reinfections of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the United Kingdom in the last six months. However, the UKHSA monitors weekly COVID-19 cases, including numbers and rates of reinfections in England. This data is published in the weekly COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2021-to-2022-season

Data on COVID-19 reinfections is available to 31 October 2021 which shows that 72,264 possible reinfections have been identified since the first recorded case of a reinfection. In the same period there were 7.9 million first positive COVID-19 test results.

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