Coronavirus Covid-19 Latest Insights

22nd January 2023

The latest data and trends about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the Office for National Statistics and other sources.

COVID-19 infections continued to decrease in England and Wales, and decreased in Northern Ireland and Scotland, in the week ending 10 January 2023.

The estimated percentage of people living in private households (those not in care homes or other communal establishments) testing positive for COVID-19 was:

2.61% in England (1 in 40 people)

3.94% in Wales (1 in 25 people)

4.22% in Northern Ireland (1 in 25 people)

3.26% in Scotland (1 in 30 people)

In England, the infection rate decreased in all age groups and all regions in the week ending 10 January 2023.

The overall hospital admission rate of patients with confirmed COVID-19 in England continued to decrease to 6.69 per 100,000 people in the latest week (ending 15 January 2023). The intensive care unit (ICU) and high dependency unit (HDU) admission rate continued to decrease slightly to 0.23 per 100,000 people (week ending 15 January 2023).

In England, there were 679 deaths involving COVID-19 registered in the week ending 6 January 2023, an increase from 367 in the previous week.

There were 839 deaths involving COVID-19 registered in the UK in the week ending 6 January 2023, accounting for 5.0% of all deaths. This is an increase from 469 in the previous week, which was 4.3% of all deaths.

The number of deaths registered in the UK in the week ending 6 January 2023 was affected by the New Year bank holiday, and the previous week was affected by the Christmas and Boxing Day bank holidays. Caution is needed when comparing across weeks.

Overview of the pandemic
Since COVID-19 reached the UK in early 2020, more than 500 million tests have been reported, more than 9 in every 10 people aged 12 years and over have received at least two vaccinations, and more than 150,000 people have died. 

The ONS Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, run independently of government testing, has conducted tests on hundreds of thousands of weekly samples to provide the best estimate of the scale of the pandemic, with a peak of 1 in 13 people infected in England in March 2022.  

For more on this topic go to -
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights