A Tenth Of England's 2022 COVID Cases Suspected Reinfections, Data Suggests

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Alleged account of around 10% of the Covid-19 English case so far this year, Reuters analysis suggested, after the British Health Security Agency (UKHSA) changed how to calculate the Coronavirus data.

With the increasing number of people who capture disease again because the Omicron variant began to dominate at the end of 2021, England on Monday began to combine the possibility of reinfection Covid-19 into his daily data.

Reinfection remains at a very low level until the beginning of the omicron wave. It is true that our daily reporting process reflects how the virus has changed, “said Steven Riley, Director of UKHSA General Data and Analytics.

The overall case number continues a lower trend, he added.

Before December 6, the proportion of everyday cases in the UK was considered reinfection has been under 2% for almost six months.

The ratio is estimated to have increased to 9.9% so far in 2022, Reuters analysis of UKHSA data found.

In Italy, a spokesman for the National Institute Health said that the case of re-infection currently stands around 3% of all infections, up from around 1.5% before Omicron.

The data switch on Monday, treating a positive Covid test separated by at least 90 days as a separate infection, extrapolated back to the beginning of the pandemic.

UKHSA said there were 588,000 possible reinfection in the UK to date, taking the total number reported in the UK to 17.3 million.

The first confirmed relection in England was on June 19 2020.

Covid statistics in the previous British daily will only count people who have tested positive for the first time.

Data Data Data Monday revealed 92,368 new infections with 51 deaths. The UK has reported 155,754 Covid deaths as a whole, the seventh highest tally globally.