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

July–December 2022 timeline

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Source revisionJul 12, 2026
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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. 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, 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.

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July 2022

1 July – Office for National Statistics data suggests COVID-19 cases in the UK are rising again, with 2.3 million people infected with the virus, around one in 30, in the week ending 24 June. The statistics show a 32% rise on the previous week, with the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants thought to be responsible for the rise.

3 July – Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, warns that hospitalisations as a result of COVID-19 are likely to rise along with infections, and says people should "go about their normal lives" but in a "precautionary way".

8 July –

The latest Office for National Statistics data for the week ending 1 July suggests 2.7 million people, or one in 25, were infected with COVID-19 as the number of cases continue to rise.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy Angela Rayner are cleared of breaking lockdown rules over a Durham "beergate" meeting.

13 July – The number of confirmed deaths from the virus is reported to have exceeded 200,000.

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