Is there data on pillar 1 and pillar 2 covid cases in local areas?

[PollyPolson]

I am getting really confused with people saying there are only 5 cases in their area. Is this pillar 1 and pillar 2?

Where can you find this information?

And can someone explain to me what pillar 1 and 2 means and the differences?

It's only available right now in the spreadsheet linked here - 25 June.

It has weekly tested case rates per 100,000 for P1 and P2 (fig 9).
To figure out actual cases, you need the population for your area.

No growth rates at that level though.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Pillar One is tests that take place in hospitals for those with clinical needs, and health and care workers. We have data on this pretty much right from the start, as it's pretty easy to test people in hospital...

Pillar Two is the swab testing for the community at large. This really only started about 8 weeks ago. This makes up 75%+ of both tests and positives now.

Until last week, there was no real data available on the local levels of Pillar 2 data. A detailed spreadsheet was released a few days ago on the Gov website, but all the local area maps on press sites telling you the amount of cases are based on P1, which now significantly underreports levels of infections.

Now, this isn't necessarily anything to worry about as infections as a whole are decreasing, and P2 cases are only increasing in a few areas. But of course we need to know where those areas are in order to squash outbreaks as they happen. This is the issue with Leicester; localised data wasn't made available, so the regional authorities have struggled to figure out where the issues actually lie.

Better data seems to be coming through, but not at postcode level for the public yet.

@PatriciaHolm thank you. So media reports on cases increasing in areas is only cases in pillar 1?

Is this also why the lockdown in Leicester took over 11 days to happen as the data was hard to find?

@PatriciaHolm

Thank you, that's the clearest explanation I've come across!

Leicester said they didn't get the pillar 2 numbers. Look at the effect of that

@netflixismusidehustle this is horrendous. Why would the Government not let Leicester know about the figures. I guess it is the Government?

Is it incompetency in that they do not know or is there another reason?

Boris claims they knew but my area (not Leicester) don't have pillar 2 figures either

They have released pillar 2 data for my area now. Ffs it is a shambles

It is such a mess - can they cock it up anymore?

So the pillar 2 figures for your area have been released in the link that PatriciaHolm shared? @netflixismysidehustle

I found the figures reported in local news but found this list of the highest infections (pillar 1 and 2)

You can look up your local area pillar two numbers here
news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-bradford-and-london-boroughs-among-36-at-risk-areas-that-could-be-just-days-away-from-local-lockdowns-12018594

mobile.twitter.com/RP131/status/1278276018286006277

Is this any use?

Thank you I really appreciate your help.

Still concerned that the data is dated 21st June though - you would think it would be more current

This is more updated, from the just published report into the Leicester outbreaks.

I hope the spreadsheet of all areas will be updated tomorrow.

Wrong attachment, sorry!