How many people in the UK have had Covid since Omicron came along?

[andrewducker]

I was curious as to how many people across the UK have had Covid since Omicron came along. So I went to the ONS Infection survey, which is based on them sampling the same people regularly, and checked what percentage of people each week have had Covid, across each nation of the UK since Omicron came along (I picked 20th of December as a cut-off date).

	Scotland	England	Wales	NI
20 December 2021	2.57	3.71	2.52	2.59
28 December 2021	4.52	6.00	5.20	3.97
03 January 2022	5.65	6.85	5.56	5.41
12 January 2022	4.49	5.47	3.69	5.68
19 January 2022	3.11	4.82	3.27	5.26
26 January 2022	3.52	4.83	4.57	7.43
02 February 2022	4.01	5.18	3.99	7.93
09 February 2022	4.17	4.49	3.71	7.99
16 February 2022	4.57	3.84	3.23	7.23
Total	36.61	45.19	35.74	53.49

And it's interesting to note that over half of the people in Northern Ireland have had Covid since Omicron, compared to 45% for England, and only 36% for Scotland.

Which might explain somewhat why Scotland's figures are still going up, while England's are going down. Or then again, it might be something entirely different!

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[andrewducker]

Reinfections are about 8-9% since Omicron - see post here.

And yes, the ones I mostly look at use 7-day rolling averages. But that doesn't help with the issue I was interested in!