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Data Provider: Welsh Government Management Information Number of close contacts eligible for follow-up by local contact tracing teams, by local health board

The data represents the weekly number of close contacts eligible for follow-up by local health board. For the purposes of this analysis, a week is classed as Sunday to Saturday. The majority of cases not eligible for follow-up by local contact tracers occur in closed settings such as hospitals, care homes and prisons. Positive cases and close contacts residing outside Wales are also not eligible for follow-up and are referred to the relevant public health agency for onward tracing. The number of close contacts eligible may vary slightly from week to week due to close contacts being flagged as not eligible following further investigation by contact tracing teams.

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28 May 2022834844(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.455758448184356(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.3,882
04 June 20228986524345584081063323,389
11 June 20221,5921,3878921,3536672066006,699
18 June 2022(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.2,1751,908(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.1,3272,000(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.1,063(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.379860(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.9,717
25 June 2022(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.2,975(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.2,836(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.1,777(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.2,671(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.1,486(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.466(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.1,290(r) The data item has been revised since previously published in StatsWales.13,506
02 July 20222,7292,0581,3291,7621,0293991,04910,356

Metadata

Title

Number of close contacts eligible for follow-up by local contact tracing teams, by Local Health Board

Last update

7 July 2022 7 July 2022

Next update

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Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW)

Contact email

kas.covid19@gov.wales

Designation

Management information

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local health boards

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The data represents the weekly number of close contacts eligible for follow-up by local health board.
For the purposes of this analysis, a week is classed as Sunday to Saturday.
The majority of cases not eligible for follow-up by local contact tracers occur in closed settings such as hospitals, care homes and prisons. Positive cases and close contacts residing outside Wales are also not eligible for follow-up and are referred to the relevant public health agency for onward tracing.
The number of close contacts eligible may vary slightly from week to week due to close contacts being flagged as not eligible following further investigation by contact tracing teams.

Data collection and calculation

The data in this release is management information collected as part of the contact tracing process. The data has not been collected for official statistics purposes which means it has not undergone the same level of quality assurance as official statistics and will be subject to future revisions.

Frequency of publication

Weekly

Data reference periods

June 2020 onwards

Statistical quality

For the purposes of this analysis, a week is classed as Sunday to Saturday.

The majority of cases not eligible for follow-up by local contact tracers occur in closed settings such as hospitals, care homes and prisons. Positive cases and close contacts residing outside Wales are also not eligible for follow-up and are referred to the relevant public health agency for onward tracing.

The number of close contacts eligible may vary slightly from week to week due to close contacts being flagged as not eligible following further investigation by contact tracing teams.

There are a very small number of contacts that we are not able to allocate to a local health board. Therefore the sum of the local health boards will not always equal the all Wales figures presented in this table.

Keywords

NHS, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Contact tracing