Notes
This is a stacked plot showing the 7-day-rolling average of confirmed covid cases data from Public Health England for each local authority in the UK and covers the range from to . Values are calculated per 100k so that different local authorities can be compared. Local authorities are ordered by the latitude of their centroids i.e. southern local authorities are nearer the bottom and more northerly towards the top.
This plot aims to give a general overview of the pandemic geographically and over the long-term. It should not be used for looking at what is happening "now" because recent days will tend to under-report - it takes time for test results to be compiled and reported. This means that it will nearly always look as if cases are falling in the most recent 5-6 days (right side of the plot) even if they aren't. If cases are rising in the most recent 5-6 days then they are most likely rising even more quickly than it looks. Basically, don't trust the most recent days.
Hovering over a line will highlight the line and show the label for the local authority.
As of 20th May 2022 Northern Ireland stopped reporting cases data.
On the 21st June 2022 we noticed that Scotland was at least 9 days behind on the UK coronavirus dashboard for cases. It isn't clear if this is just a delay or if the data have been discontinued.
Credits
Visualisation © 2020-21 Open Innovations. Code released under an MIT license. Source on Github.
Confirmed cases data © Public Health England OGL v3