Leicester City Council provides daily COVID-19 positive tests and seven-day positive test rates per 100,000 population for Leicester and England. The dataset uses ONS 2019 mid-year population estimates for rate calculations. Automatic updates to this dataset were discontinued on 9th December 2023.
Use Cases
- Compare local COVID-19 case rates against national trends based on the described geographic scope.
- Analyze the progression of the pandemic over time based on the daily positive test data.
- Calculate per capita infection rates for a specific UK city based on the provided population-normalized metrics.
- Study the impact of public health interventions by tracking changes in the seven-day positive test rate.
Strengths
- Provides data for both a specific city (Leicester) and the national level (England) for direct comparison.
- Includes population-normalized rates using ONS 2019 mid-year estimates, enabling per capita analysis.
- Offers daily granularity for tracking short-term changes in COVID-19 spread.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Automatic updates were discontinued in December 2023, limiting data freshness for post-2023 analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Leicester City Council
- Time Range
- Daily data up to December 2023.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 11:36:45.185326; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Leicester (city) and England (national).