FOI Ref: FOI/2021/2853
You asked
Please provide access to all statistical information related to the following question:
Since 15 February 2021 to 15 August 2021, how many people (percentage and numbers) entering UK from Red List countries tested positive for COVID-19 whilst staying in UK hotel quarantine?
Data required:
Information related to the number of people entering the UK from individual Red List countries (eg - a break down of data related to people entering from India / Egypt / Cuba / Indonesia etc) staying in UK hotel quarantine.
Statistical information related to the number and percentage of people entering the UK from Red List countries testing positive for COVID-19
Information related to the timing of the positive test result (PCR test day 2 / PCR test day 8)
Country / Weekly breakdown of the statistical information requested
Number of different variants of COVID-19 detected from people entering the UK from Red List countries.
We said
Thank you for your request.
Our analysis of travel abroad from the survey was recently published by our academic partners here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.02.21263017v1
However, analysis looking specifically a positivity rates by red list countries is not held and would therefore need to be created via our bespoke services. Public authorities are not obligated to create information in order to answer FOI requests. However, this, or something similar, may be available via our bespoke services route. Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources and agreement of costs. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact Infection.Survey.Analysis@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there may be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.