The COVID-19 pandemic led to levels of hospitalisation and mortality that are unprecedented in recent history, and in March 2020 the UK Government imposed a range of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) with the aim of minimising transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

With the continued presence of highly transmissible variants, it is essential to understand which settings contribute the greatest to infections in order to develop targeted mitigation strategies.

This paper by researchers from Theme 3 of the PROTECT NCS, published in Epidemiology & Infection, discusses the study, which aimed to understand which non-household activities increased infection odds and contributed greatest to SARS-CoV-2 infections, following the lifting of public health restrictions in England and Wales.

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