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Respiratory infections: laboratory reports 2020

Monthly reports on laboratory confirmed respiratory infections in England and Wales.

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This monthly report comprises 4 routine data tables and links to separate routine reports on legionnaires’ disease and the UK-wide seasonal influenza situation.

  1. Reports of influenza infection made to Public Health England (PHE), by week of report.
  2. Respiratory viral detections by any method (culture, direct immunofluorescence, PCR, four-fold rise in paired sera, single high serology titre, genomic, electron microscopy, other method, other method unknown), by week of report.
  3. Respiratory viral detections by age group: weeks.
  4. Laboratory reports of infections associated with atypical pneumonia, by week of report.
  5. A link to latest data on legionnaires’ disease (pneumonic and non-pneumonic) cases in England and Wales, by week of report.
  6. A link to the latest weekly national influenza summary report for the UK.

These reports are published in the Health Protection Report (HPR).

For earlier data, see the Respiratory infections: laboratory reports 2019.

Published 26 February 2020
Last updated 3 March 2021 + show all updates
  1. Added Health Protection Report (HPR) 15(4) monthly report covering weeks 50 to 53, 2020 and weeks 1 to 2, 2021.

  2. Added HPR 15(1) report for weeks 46 to 49, 2020.

  3. Added HPR 14(22) report for weeks 42 to 45.

  4. Added HPR 14(21) monthly report (weeks 38 to 41).

  5. Added HPR 14(17) monthly report (weeks 33 to 37).

  6. Added HPR 14(15) monthly report (weeks 29 to 32).

  7. Added Health Protection Report (HPR) 14(14) monthly report (weeks 24 to 28).

  8. Added Health Protection Report (HPR) 14(12) monthly report (weeks 20 to 23).

  9. Added Health Protection Report (HPR) 14(10) monthly report (weeks 16 to 19).

  10. Added monthly report for weeks 11 to 15.

  11. Added Health Protection Report (HPR) 14(6) report for weeks 7 to 10.

  12. First published.