COVID-19 testing and cases
Additional deaths involving COVID-19***
Friday 6 January 2022 – We have 2312 (known) active cases of COVID-19 in the Bailiwick. 166 new cases have been identified since yesterday and 264 people have recovered. Of the 2312 current active cases, 2191 are in Guernsey & Herm, 2 are in Sark and 118 are in Alderney.
Of the 166 new cases, 36 are symptomatic community cases, 42 are through community surveillance, 72 are contacts of a known case and 15 are travel related. The attribution of 1 case remains outstanding.
Vaccination status of active cases: of the 2312 (known) cases, 440 were unvaccinated, 133 were partially vaccinated, 808 were fully vaccinated and 921 were fully vaccinated + boosted. The vaccination status of 10 cases is outstanding.
Post second-wave, 9 individuals with COVID have sadly died. There are currently 5 hospital admissions in the Bailiwick with a COVID-19 diagnosis.
We are currently in an Omicron wave. This is the dominant strain. As such Public Health will no longer prioritise sequencing while it focuses on managing case numbers effectively.
We have recently changed the way we report COVID-19 deaths. Please see the definitions below.
* Awaiting results indicates people who have had a swab taken and are awaiting a result and does not include inbound travel swabs.
** Deaths due to COVID-19 are deaths with a confirmed underlying cause of COVID-19 following completion of clinical coding by the Office for National Statistics.
*** Additional deaths involving COVID-19 are deaths not yet coded where COVID-19 is mentioned as a cause anywhere on the death certificate. In most but not all instances these will be deaths among active COVID-19 cases and in most but not all cases these deaths will be found to have an underlying cause of COVID-19 when clinical coding has taken place.
The total number of positive cases may not always equal the total number of recovered cases plus the total number of deaths. This is because we are reporting all deaths considered to be from COVID-19, not just the deaths which were confirmed through testing to have COVID-19 (i.e. COVID-19 may feature on a death certificate, but a PCR test may not have taken place before the death occurred).