English: Each day the UK government reports official statistics on the number of COVID-19 cases in the UK. These statistics are based on people who have had a positive result, following a test. Testing now takes place in the community as well as in hospitals. There will be more actual cases of COVID-19 than have been found through testing. This chart shows the number of cases by date reported (published) by the UK Government - cases may have actually tested positive earlier e.g. see note below of technical issue corrected on 4 October 2020.

I have produced an Excel chart based on theses publicly available datasets, up to and including the date of upload. Source and licence details for this UK government data is below.

NOTE: Due to a technical error, cases due for report between 25 September 2020 & 2 October 2020 were not reported (published) until 4 October 2020. Hence the figures for 4 October 2020 include the total backlog of those previously unreported cases, and is therefore inflated accordingly. The total number of cases being reported late was 15,841. The UK Government have published a statement on the delayed reporting, confirming the number of cases unreported by each date between 25 September 2020 & 2 October 2020 and that the issue has now been resolved. See the Government statement here.