The TTE Week in Numbers (to 19 April)

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1,754

The number of Statutory notifiable diseases reported in week 15 of 2024.

Topping the list is Whooping Cough, which has 824 notifications. Tuberculosis comes in second with 110. 

Any guesses for how many cases of COVID-19 were notified - remembering it’s a statutory notifiable disease which places a duty on a duly qualified medical practitioner who be…