Statistics reports on COVID-19 testing and mortality


No country surely knows the total number of people infected with Coronavirus. We barely know the number of tested people. Those who have a laboratory-confirmed infection are counted as COVID-19 confirmed cases. It means the counts of confirmed cases depend on how much the tests are done in a country. If there is no testing then no exact data.

Testing is the only window to detect the spread of the pandemic. Without data on the infected people, we cannot understand the pandemic. Without proper data, we cannot know which countries are doing well and which are just announcing affected cases and deaths.

To construct any data on confirmed COVID-19 cases, we should know how much testing for the viral infection has been done by the country. Currently, 219,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 31,800 people deaths are reported in the United Kingdom. The actual number of cases is higher than the tested cases because the COVID-19 testing was limited to hospital patients, NHS and care home staff until recently.

What is counted as a complete test?

The number of tests will not be the same for every country. Some countries report that the number of people tested, while others report the number of tests, whereas other countries report their testing data leaves it unclear so unable to count the exact figures.

While accounting in the United Kingdom, over 1,072,144 people have now been tested for Coronavirus. The Government targeted to conduct minimum 100,000 Coronavirus tests a day and it met the same. An official report stated that 122,347 COVID-19 test UK was done on the 30th of April 2020.

COVID-19 testing in the UK
Total Tests 1,821,280
Total people tested 1,334,77
Daily Tests 92,837
Daily people tested 64,362
· Individuals can be tested more than once.
Increased testing for corona forms a part of the UK Government’s strategy “Test, Track and Trace”. An app is being piloted on the Isle of Wight where it alerts people that they may have been exposed to a COVID-19 threat.
Who is being most affected and where?

People from the underprivileged areas of Wales, England are more likely to be tested positive with COVID-19 than those who live in more affluent places, Office for National Statistics suggest. The ONS analyzed that there were 55 casualties for every 100,000 people in the poorest parts of England, compared with 25 in the wealthiest areas.

Elderly people were the most recorded Coronavirus deaths. Figures released by NHS England show over half of the deaths were observed among people over 80 years. It has been suggested by the regional data that deaths are declining rapidly in London. Other parts of Wales are also starting to see a decline. The highest death tolls were observed in the Midlands and London. The smallest numbers of deaths were noted in Northern Ireland and South West England.

The ONS analysis indicates that the disparity persists while considering age.

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