The UK Leicester COVID-19 'exceedance' May–July 2020: An analysis of hospitalised cases. Issue 1 (July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tang, Julian W; Bird, Paul W; Holmes, Christopher W; Nicoara, Daniela C; Woltmann, Gerrit; Haldar, Pranabashis; Holmes, Nadine; Carlile, Matthew; Moore, Christopher; McClure, Patrick; Loose, Matthew
• Is Part Of: Journal of infection. Volume 83:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: e5
• Page End: e7
• Publication Date: 2021-07
• Subjects: Infection -- Periodicals; Bacterial Infections -- Periodicals; Communicable Diseases -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.05.028
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-4453

Abstract

Highlights: In June 2020, Leicester was the first city in the UK to go into a local lockdown, as community COVID-19 cases remained high. In contrast to this community (Pillar 2) data, the hospitalised (Pillar 1) COVID-19 case counts continued to remain low. A Public Health England phylogenetic analysis of Pillar 2 sample sequences did not find any specific pattern of transmission. Here we perform a complementary phylogenetic analysis of Pillar 1 sample sequences, tagged with anonymised metadata. We found no specific pattern of transmission between any of the metadata related to these hospitalised COVID-19 patients.