Thematic Analysis
BRC COVID Hotspot Tracker
Latest report - week 43, week commencing 19th of October 2020.
This report contains a ranked view of areas with the highest weekly increase in COVID caseload, including week on week change and absolute change for week 43 (ending October 25th).
In this report, the North West top the high-level regions for new cases, with 32,817 new positive diagnoses. Lancashire had the highest number of cases for a sub-region with 5,503 new cases, this was 17% higher than the prior week.
The following analysis is produced using data available via Public Health England (PHE). Data is sourced from their ‘Second Generation Surveillance System (SGSS)’. New diagnosed cases for a given week are released with a minimum two-week lag. The report will always contain the latest available week. Data is only currently available for England and its regions. Publication dates are not provided by PHE so updates to this report will be irregular.
This report uses three measures to give some sense of the risk of a local lockdown in any one area, these are:
- New cases: Total new cases diagnoses in the single week represented, both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2.
- WoW Variance: The Week-On-Week change between the most current week and prior week.
- Absolute WoW change: The difference in case numbers between the current and prior week.
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