Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's updated estimate is of the number of daily new covid-19 cases during the peak week in March 2020.
The following table shows the estimated number of new COVID-19 infections each day between 20 March and 26 March 2020, which is considered to be the peak of the epidemic in England.
Estimated number of COVID-19 cases between 20 March and 26 March 2020 in England, shown in thousands
Date | Upper Confidence Interval | Median | Lower Confidence Interval |
20 March 2020 | 292 | 219 | 180 |
21 March 2020 | 361 | 272 | 223 |
22 March 2020 | 443 | 335 | 275 |
23 March 2020 | 542 | 412 | 338 |
24 March 2020 | 399 | 305 | 252 |
25 March 2020 | 205 | 153 | 124 |
26 March 2020 | 233 | 176 | 144 |
Notes:
https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/tackling-covid-19/nowcasting-and-forecasting-of-covid-19/