Hospitals To Stop Testing For Asymptomatic Admissions - Dr John Campbell

26th August 2022

New symptomatic cases per day, 108,841.

Current symptomatic prevalence, 1,659,056.

UK viral positive prevalence

2.63% in England (1 in 40 people)

2.39% in Wales (1 in 40 people)

2.00% in Northern Ireland (1 in 50 people)

3.12% in Scotland (1 in 30 people)

Risk of reinfection

Five times higher in the period when the Omicron variants common (20 December 2021 and onwards),

compared with the period when the Delta variant common (17 May to 19 December 2021)

Risk of reinfection in earlier Omicron period, (March 2022) people were 10 times more likely to be reinfected