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Respiratory infections: laboratory reports 2021

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

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 3 March 2021

Applies to England and Wales

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Reports of respiratory infections made to PHE from PHE and NHS laboratories in England and Wales: weeks 3 to 6, 2021

Ref: HPR 15(4)

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This monthly report comprises 4 routine data tables relating to non-COVID-19 respiratory infections, as follows:

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.

It also links to:

• the latest UK-wide seasonal influenza and COVID-19 surveillance reports
• the latest available legionnaires’ disease data

For earlier data, see the Respiratory infections: laboratory reports 2020.

Published 3 March 2021