Public Health England have published their latest (week 42) Influenza and COVID-19 Surveillance report.

It covers the period of week 41: 5-11 October 2020

"Several surveillance indicators suggest that COVID-19 activity at a national level has continued to increase during week 41.

Detected cases increase. Positivitiy is still increasing and is around 8% in Pillar 2 (community testing), and just over 2% in Pillar 1(NHS & PHE labs).

WHO suggest positivity does not exceed 5%, which indicates not enough testing in Pillar 2.

These are the age groups where cases are being detected. 10-19 and 20-29 year old age groups very high, other groups increasing.

Positivity by age groups. Note high positivity for 20-29 and 10-19 year olds (and most other groups)

Cases distrubution around England. There was a discussion on the scale last week.

Here is last week's map (on the same scale as this week's map) https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1314243939633786881

Note increases in Bristol region, London, and a general increase across the country.

Incidents/outbreaks. Particular increase in outbreaks in care homes and 'other'

COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes in yellow

There has been some discussion about how schools report cases. Previously this has been to PHE; it appears that schools now are encouraged to phone a DfE helpline.

It would be interesting to know how incidents reported to the DfE helpline are subsequently reported to PHE

Hospitalizations increasing rapidly

ICU/HDU admissions increasing

Age distribution of deaths since week 27 ('second wave')

Hospitalizations. Not just North-East / North-West

COVID-19 Schools outbreak/incident breakdown. See previous point of whether all school outbreaks are included here if reported via DfE - see e.g. this thread https://twitter.com/MrTeece_/status/1316240275245858816?s=09