The Authorities’s Living with COVID-19 plan set out how the UK would transition from managing COVID-19 as an emergency response to dwelling with the virus, while guaranteeing we retain the resilience and contingency capabilities to take care of the uncertainty across the future path of the pandemic.

This transition is underpinned by the success of the UK’s vaccination programme, and a set of obtainable pharmaceutical instruments for treating people who find themselves most weak or severely ailing with COVID-19. Vaccination derived safety and coverings have modified the dangers of COVID-19 and led a pathway to larger stability.

As we transfer from pandemic to endemic, administration of COVID-19 not requires the speedy deployment of particular interventions which reply to altering day by day knowledge, and wider public well being measures and steerage present an efficient and proportionate method.

This makes it doable to handle COVID-19 in an analogous solution to different respiratory sicknesses. COVID-19 might be managed by way of ongoing surveillance, vaccination programmes and powerful public well being messaging.

In keeping with this method, knowledge on the COVID-19 Dashboard will transfer from day by day to weekly reporting from 1st July 2022. This follows the standard reporting schedules for different respiratory infections and in addition aligns COVID-19 reporting for England with Scotland and Wales – which already report COVID-19 knowledge on a weekly foundation.

The COVID-19 Dashboard will proceed to replace each Wednesday at 4pm with the freshest obtainable day by day knowledge on testing, circumstances, vaccinations, healthcare, and deaths inside 28 days of a optimistic COVID-19 check from the nations of the UK.

This transformation represents an additional evolution of the COVID-19 Dashboard which has continued to develop in line with the wants of the well being and care sector, coverage makers, the media and the general public alike, offering a strong and widespread device for well timed and dependable COVID-19 statistics.

The Dashboard will proceed to be a key supply of COVID-19 knowledge and we stay dedicated to offering open-source knowledge that may be quickly and steadily utilized by worldwide, nationwide, regional and native customers together with main media shops that analyse and report COVID-19 statistics and tendencies to audiences inside the UK and around the globe.

Rob England, Senior Journalist within the BBC Information Information and Evaluation staff, stated:

From its first launch, the dashboard has been a significant device in monitoring and reporting each native and nationwide tendencies within the Covid-19 pandemic. 

In bringing collectively all of the related knowledge from throughout nations in a single place, it made it simpler to do thorough evaluation at pace to maintain our audiences updated.

It additionally supplied the a lot wanted context of getting numerous completely different metrics alongside each other, corresponding to circumstances, hospital admissions and deaths by numerous measures – giving us a extra full image of the state of affairs within the nation.

The API supplied additionally made the method of accessing the information extra streamlined, and the visualisations allowed us to raised brainstorm concepts for a way finest to speak the figures to audiences.

General, the dashboard is essentially the most intuitive authorities knowledge hub I’ve ever skilled working with, and has a tough working and useful staff behind it who’re devoted to offering a superb public service.

The Dashboard may also proceed in search of to boost equitable entry to official public well being knowledge on to the general public.  A current report titled ‘What Counts’ printed by Sense about Science, illustrated the Dashboard’s success in proving equitable entry by illustrating that the extent of Dashboard followers diversified much less between teams categorised by age, qualification and financial exercise compared with followers of different authorities data websites.

A big contributing issue to reaching excessive ranges of public engagement will be attributed to the standard of engineering, statistics and the consumer interface which have been developed and designed in response to common consumer suggestions.

Public well being recommendation and authorities selections will proceed to learn by way of the COVID-19 Dashboard and we may also keep our different essential surveillance capabilities to observe the virus, together with the weekly COVID-19 surveillance report and the COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS).

Genomic sequencing might be maintained to assist us perceive the evolution of the virus and determine new variants. The Authorities additionally retains core infrastructure and capabilities to scale up testing if wanted. As we transfer ahead and proceed to observe COVID-19 carefully, the frequency of reporting knowledge on the COVID-19 Dashboard might be saved underneath overview.