Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (July–December 2022)

The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom from July 2022 to December 2022.There are significant differences in the legislation and the reporting between the countries of the UK: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales.The numbers of cases and deaths are reported on a government Web site updated daily during the pandemic.[1] The UK-wide COVID Symptom Study based on surveys of four million participants, endorsed by authorities in Scotland and Wales, run by health science company ZOE, and analysed by King's College London researchers,[2] publishes daily estimates of the number of new and total current COVID-19 infections (excluding care homes) in UK regions, without restriction to only laboratory-confirmed cases.[3]
Graph of COVID-19 cases for July–December 2022 from government data
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