Public Health England have published their latest (week 41) COVID surveillance report. However, this is in a new format called the & #39;influenza and COVID-19 surveillance report& #39;. It is not clear whether a separate COVID report will be published

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/925324/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_W41_FINAL.pdf">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/governmen...
This report does not appear to contain a watchlist of local authorities. Previous weeks have contained a watchlist of local authorities published jointly by PHE / Joint Biosecurity Centre / NHS Test and Trace.

See this for last week& #39;s https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1311998656174788608">https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robe...
This is the chart for positivity. Increasing. Change of methodology this week - a good thing as a more conventional calculation.

& #39;Positivity is calculated as the number of individuals testing positive during the week divided by the number of individuals tested during the week.& #39;
Age groups of people testing positive
Proportion of age groups testing positive. Significant increases in 10-29 year-olds
Pillar 2 (community testing) positivity increasing significantly. Greater than 5% in Pillar 2 (indicating not enough testing being performed) (WHO guidance)
Pillar 2 (community testing) positivity broken down by age cohorts. Positivity of >10% for 10-19 year olds and 20-29 year olds. This indicates that not enough testing is being performed particularly in these age groups. Cases in these age groups particularly under-reported.
Covid case rates broken down by region. North East, North West, Yorkshire & Humber high.

East Midlands rising fast too (dark green line)
Covid cases map for the UK. Doesn& #39;t look as scary as last week - last week darkest red was for greater than 45 cases per 100,000.

It& #39;s now greater than 335 cases per 100,000.

If this was using the same colour scheme as last week, *everything yellow or above would be dark red*.
So, this week, the *whole of London* would be dark red if using the same scale as last week.

Here& #39;s last week& #39;s map for comparison. Things have got worse since then. https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1311984858785296384">https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robe...
Deaths increasing
It is not clear whether the (only) Covid surveillance report will be published tomorrow. If so, I will produce another thread, which I expect will include hospitalisation location data and maps of cases in local authorities.
And thank you to @rob_aldridge and @junipertwo for pointing me in the right direction: the Covid-specific report will no longer be published.

The watchlist and local authority maps have been published on Fridays, and I will look out for them tomorrow. https://twitter.com/Junipertwo/status/1314307728244903936">https://twitter.com/Junipertw...
Although the watchlist of local authorities has not yet been published, you can make a rough estimate - here are the upper tier local authorities (these are the equivalent of county councils) and include unitary authorities such as Leicester.

105 out of 149, or over two-thirds
Here& #39;s a slide summarizing the colour scheme change
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