FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3227
You asked
I would be grateful if you could identify the latest Covid transmission rates in England by those people who have:
1/ Been fully vaccinated.
2/ By those not vaccinated.
and where within the ONS website that I could obtain the figures, going forward.
We said
Thank you for your request.
The COVID-19 Infection Survey is a household survey that estimates the number of people testing positive for infection and for antibodies in the UK. Our statistics refer to the number of current COVID-19 infections within the population living in private residential households. We exclude those in hospitals, care homes and/or other communal establishments. In communal establishments, rates of COVID-19 infection are likely to be different.
The information you have requested regarding infections by vaccination status is available from the UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency, previously Public Health England) COVID-19 surveillance reports. The relevant figure is on page 30 (2 December 2021, week 48). Please pay attention to the note accompanying the figure.
In the context of very high vaccine coverage in the population, even with a highly effective vaccine, it is expected that a large proportion of cases, hospitalisations and deaths would occur in vaccinated individuals, simply because a larger proportion of the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated and no vaccine is 100% effective.
For more information, you can contact UKHSA via email at informationrights@ukhsa.gov.uk.
You may also be interested in the Office for National Statistics COVID-19 infection survey technical article on positivity after vaccination and accompanying dataset, which includes the number of people who test positive after one and two dose vaccination from 1 December 2020 to 31 May 2021. Alongside this, you may also be interested in our technical article on the impact of vaccination on testing positive and accompanying dataset, which includes the risk ratios of testing positive by vaccine exposure from 1 December 2020 to 14 August 2021.
Further information and an overview of data about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the Office for National Statistic (ONS) and other sources can be found in our Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights tool.