{"value":{"id":1315134,"askingMemberId":54,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-05-17T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-05-20T00:00:00","uin":"2167","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been (a) recorded as infected and (b) hospitalised with the Indian variant of the covid-19 virus; and how many people in each of those categories had previously been vaccinated against the virus.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4380,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-05-20T00:00:00","answerText":"

The statistics for infections for each variant of concern, including the Indian variant, are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-cases-data

Data on hospitalisations and vaccination status are not currently available in the format requested.

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