"Figure 2: There is no evidence that infection rates differ by region","" "Estimated percentage of the population testing positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) on nose and throat swabs across regions, England, 17 August 2020 (reference point of the most recent week from modelling)","" "","" "Notes","1. All results are provisional and subject to revision. 2. These statistics refer to infections reported in the community, by which we mean private households. These figures exclude infections reported in hospitals, care homes and/or other institutional settings." "Unit","Percentages" "","" "","% testing positive for COVID-19","Lower confidence limit","Upper confidence limit" "North East","0.04","0.01","0.08" "North West","0.08","0.04","0.14" "Yorkshire and The Humber","0.08","0.04","0.16" "East Midlands","0.04","0.01","0.09" "West Midlands","0.05","0.02","0.09" "East of England","0.04","0.01","0.09" "London","0.07","0.02","0.13" "South East","0.03","0.01","0.06" "South West","0.04","0.01","0.08"