COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies
An overview of national surveillance programmes that explain the transmission of COVID-19 and other priority infections and how they are affecting the wider population.
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This guidance of the UK’s COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies is for healthcare professionals, academics, industry and the general public.
Programmes are managed by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in collaboration with a number of delivery partners, including the Office for National Statistics (ONS), research, academic and commercial partners.
Updates to this page
Last updated 21 December 2023 + show all updates
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Added links to Winter CIS: UKHSA publications and Vivaldi social care – UCL to 'COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies up to March 2024'.
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Added links with further information to 'COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies up to March 2024'.
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Added COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies up to March 2024.
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Updated COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies up to March 2023.
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Added update on pausing data collection for the COVID-19 Infection Survey.
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Updated COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies up to March 2022.
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Updated 'Living with COVID-19' information under Details.
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Updated 'COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies', added 'COVID-19 surveillance and immunity studies up to March 2022'.
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Added CoMix study.
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Added information on Schools Infection Survey and PITCH. Added link to COVID-19 paediatric surveillance.
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Added link to the Vivaldi 3 study: Boosters strongly enhance SARS-CoV-2 antibody and cellular responses in elderly residents in care homes.
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Added link to the Vivaldi 3 study research findings.
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Added link to research findings: round 6.
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Added a link to Lay summaries on the Vivaldi 2 study on the University College London website.
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Added link to Schools Infection Survey research findings: round 5.
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Added a link to 'SIREN study - one year on' YouTube video.
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Updated descriptions for React studies, Vivaldi studies and the Schools Infection Survey to represent their current scope.
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Added link to 'COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey: round 2'.
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Updated to add a link to the Vivaldi 2 study research findings.
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Updated to include FAQs for the Vivaldi study, Schools Infection Survey and the UK Biobank SARS-CoV-2 serology study.
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Updated to add further reports and documentation on the studies.
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Information updated to reflect further research findings, additional studies and improvement in scope of existing studies.
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Links added to the document: press releases to REACT-1 and related content links at the end of the document.
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