Daily data:

Cases 32,608 (47,126 last Thursday)
Deaths 350 (317)
Patients admitted 1,958 (2,287 the 3rd)
Patients in hospital 19,028 (20,472 on the 6th)
Patients in ventilation beds 355 (361 on the 6th)
Vaccinated up to and including 13 April 2022:
First dose: 52,978,585
Second dose: 49,592,843
Booster: 39,028,451

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 34.0% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 50.4%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 283.4 today. The bean counters are having an Easter break, so next stats will be on Tuesday 19th.

Daily data:

Cases 23,245 (37,819 last Tuesday)
Deaths 96 (288)
Patients admitted 2,083 (2,432 the 4th)
Patients in hospital 18,490 (20,368 on the 7th)
Patients in ventilation beds 349 (357 on the 7th)
Vaccinated up to and including 18 April 2022:
First dose: 53,041,898
Second dose: 49,762,640
Booster: 39,073,635

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 31.3% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is down 3.3%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 211.9 today. Today's data covers 5 days, so I have divided the published total by 5 to get a daily figure for the last 5 days.

Daily data:

Cases 26,147 (35,926 last Wednesday)
Deaths 508 (651)
Patients admitted 1,609 (1,985 the 8th)
Patients in hospital 17,883 (19,822 on the 12th)
Patients in ventilation beds 336 (385 on the 12th)
Vaccinated up to and including 19 April 2022:
First dose: 53,057,035
Second dose: 49,640,346
Booster: 39,090,198

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 31.0% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is down 31.3%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 191.4 today.

The UK 7 day rate per 100,000 is now about 257, which is the lowest it has been since early July 2021. Wales is below 40 per 100,000, just about the lowest in Europe, or the data reliable bits of it. The 14 day rate for the UK used in the ECDC table is 630.

The figures for Wales look questionable to me. The population of England is about 18 times that of Wales, but England is reporting more than 200 times more tests each day. Last week the ONS put infection levels in Wales higher than the other nations.

This was on 5 April and we are now over 2 weeks on. I think looking at the figures daily admissions continues to fall, totals in hospital continues to fall, and numbers on ventilators remains stable with no discernible uptick.

Rather than copy in the charts, they can be see here if anyone wants to have a further look https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

Daily data:

Cases 23,456 (32,608 last Thursday)
Deaths 646 (350)
Patients in hospital 17,368 (19,059 on the 13th)
Patients in ventilation beds 349 (355 on the 13th)
Vaccinated up to and including 20 April 2022:
First dose: 53,071,451
Second dose: 49,651,320
Booster: 39,108,473

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 32.3% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is down 17.5%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 233.7 today. Scotland did not report much data today.

It's pretty clear from the latest covid map that the very different case numbers in the nations of the UK are probably due to different testing and reporting regimes rather than true differences in infection rates.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...5f6bc6e2e9.jpg

A map without a legend is useless.

This is the version with a legend:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...4231082a31.png
The point is though that the case levels vary significantly across national borders where the only difference is the case reporting method.

Not at all. The actual numbers are unimportant for the point I was making, which is that infection rates precisely follow national borders and are therefore probably due to different rates of testing in each country.

The latest version of the ONS infection survey has just been published. The headline figures for the number of people predicted to be positive in the week ending 16th April:

England 1 in 17 (1 in 14 last week)
Wales 1 in 15 (1 in 13)
Northern Ireland 1 in 30 (1 in 19)
Scotland 1 in 19 (1 in 17)

Note that Wales has the highest level of infection. The full report is here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...ot/22april2022

Daily data:

Cases 19,795 (23,245 last Friday)
Deaths 284 (97)
Patients in hospital 16,447 (18,521 on the 14th)
Patients in ventilation beds 349 (349 on the 14th)
Vaccinated up to and including 21 April 2022:
First dose: 53,087,904
Second dose: 49,661,362
Booster: 39,125,015

The rolling seven day daily average for cases is now down 6.0% on the previous week and the same measure for deaths is up 19.5%. The rolling 7 day daily average for deaths is 260.4 today. The hospital admissions data has not been updated since the 15th. There is also a correction to yesterdays cases figure following the late reporting by Scotland.

Oooh, the downturn is bottoming out... the doom merchants will be back next week when the the figures start to go up again!

From what I can tell, Wales, unlike the rest of the UK, does not include LFTs in its testing figures. In England, about 90% of the tests reported each day are LFTs and so as a very rough figure you'd expect England to be reporting about 10 times the number of tests per head of population, or about 180 times the absolute number.

This will also affect the case numbers, especially as asymptomatic individuals who return a positive LFT are not required to have a follow-up PCR test. (In fact, no-one I know who has returned a positive LFT recently followed it up with a PCR.) In effect, you could say that Wales is for the most part counting only symptomatic cases. NHS Wales recognises this, and warns on its website that testing data should be interpreted with caution.