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    Mar 18

    New data shows infections increased across most of the UK, with record levels seen in Scotland. High levels of infection are driven by the rapid rise of the Omicron BA.2 variant

    Estimated number of people with COVID-19 in the week ending 12 March 2022 (not living in care homes, hospitals or other communal establishments) 1 in 20 England 1 in 25 Wales 1 in 14 Northern Ireland 1 in 14 Scotland
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    18 hours ago

    Over the last 2 years the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey has studied how Brits have fared during the pandemic. Check out today's , where we've attempted to summarise this into around 800 words👇

    Today marks two years since we went into our first Covid lockdown. How have we changed since then? from the explains in
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  3. 2 hours ago

    Results for Quarter 3 2021 also show: ▪️ Market value of pension funds was £2.5 trillion ▪️ Gross assets excluding derivatives was £2.7 trillion ➡️

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Results for Quarter 3 (Jul to Sept) 2021 of our Financial Survey of Pensions Schemes show in private sector defined contribution schemes, contributions grew ▪️ 4% for employee contributions ▪️ 8% for employer contributions ➡️

    Employee and employer defined contribution schemes increased by 4% and 8% respectively from Quarter 2 2021 to Quarter 3 2021
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    53% of business said they had been affected by general price increases. The top three impacts were: ▪️ Absorbing costs (35%) ▪️ Passing increases to customers (24%) ▪️ Changing suppliers (9%) ➡️

    Over a third (35%) of businesses reported they had to absorb costs due to the effect on their business by price rises
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  6. 2 hours ago

    25% of businesses said their production and/or suppliers had been affected by recent increases in energy prices. The accommodation and food service activities industry reported the highest percentage (53%).

    In early March 2022, 25% of businesses reported their production, and or, suppliers had been affected by recent increases in energy prices
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  7. 2 hours ago

    In Mar 2022, 47% of trading business said the prices of materials, goods or services bought had increased. This was up from 39% in Feb 2022 and is the largest percentage point increase since records began (Jun 2020)

    The manufacturing industry continued to report the largest percentage of currently trading businesses reporting an increase in prices bought, at 73%
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  8. 2 hours ago

    The system average price of gas fell by 39% in the week to 20 Mar 2022 but is 50% higher than it was six months ago (19 Sept 2021)

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  9. 2 hours ago

    There were an average of 274 daily ship visits in the week to 20 Mar 2022, a 2% increase compared with the previous week – according to . However, there was a notable fall (30%) in daily ship visits to Dover.

    There was an average of 274 daily ship visits in the week to 20 March 2022, which was a 2% increase from 268 in the previous week
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  10. 2 hours ago

    Figures from show the total number of online job adverts was at 136% of its Feb 2020 average level in the week to 21 Mar 2022. This is the largest weekly decrease since the week ending 31 Dec 2020 (12%)

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  11. 2 hours ago

    For the most deprived children, 9.4% of primary pupils and 15.3% of secondary age pupils reported a positive test. Compared to the least deprived children, where this was 20.1% of primary pupils and 27.9% of secondary age pupils

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  12. 2 hours ago

    Pupils living in more deprived areas were less likely to report a positive test in Autumn 2021 compared to those in less deprived areas.

    Bar chart with following title: Secondary age pupils living in more deprived areas were less likely to report a positive Coronavirus test
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  13. 2 hours ago

    In the Autumn 2020 term, Indian pupils (11.3%) were most likely to report a positive test amongst secondary age pupils and Pakistani pupils (2.5%) were most likely to report a positive test amongst primary age pupils.

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    White British primary and secondary pupils had the largest proportion of their population reporting a positive test in the Autumn 2021 term compared to other ethnicities: ▪️16.6% for primary pupils ▪️24.9% for secondary pupils.

    Bar chart with following title: Proportions of secondary age pupils reporting positive Coronavirus tests varied by ethnicity
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  15. 2 hours ago

    For pupils aged 12-15, the rate of reporting a positive test in the 1st half of the autumn 2021 term was 38% lower for a vaccinated pupil (at least 14 days after vaccination) compared to an unvaccinated pupil. This is compared to 23% lower in the 2nd half of the term.

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  16. 2 hours ago

    We’ve released analysis on positive  tests reported in school pupils in England, comparing the Autumn 2020 term with the Autumn 2021 term

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  17. 2 hours ago

    The percentage of school age children estimated to have antibodies to was high. This is likely a result of the recent high infection levels seen in these age groups

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  18. 2 hours ago

    Our latest data show antibody rates remained high across all UK nations and age groups

    Estimated percentage of adults who had COVID-19 antibodies in the week beginning 28 February 2022 (not living in care homes, hospitals or other communal settings, test threshold of 179 ng/ml) 99.0% England 98.9% Wales 98.8% Northern Ireland 99.0% Scotland Source: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, antibody and vaccination data, UK: 24 March 2022
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  19. 2 hours ago

    The rate of death (Age Standardised Mortality Rate) for the year-to-date (Jan to Feb) for 2022 was the lowest since 2001 (the start of this analysis), in both England (1,017.6 deaths per 100,000 people) and Wales (1,078.3 deaths per 100,000 people)

    Line chart with following title: Year-to-date mortality rates in 2022 were significantly lower than most other years in both England and Wales
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  20. 2 hours ago

    The proportion of deaths due to , when COVID-19 was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, decreased between Jan and Feb 2022 in both England (from 73.7% to 66.0%) and Wales (from 76.2% to 61.7%).

    Bar chart with following title: The proportion of deaths due to COVID-19, when COVID-19 was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, decreased between January 2022 and February 2022 in both England and Wales
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  21. 2 hours ago

    The leading causes of death in Wales in Feb 2022 were: ▪️Ischaemic heart diseases (10.8% of all deaths) ▪️Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (10.7% of all deaths) ▪️Cerebrovascular diseases (5.2% of all deaths) was the 6th leading cause (4.4% of all deaths).

    Bar chart with following title: In Wales, ischaemic heart diseases remained the leading cause of death in February 2022
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