This project has concluded. UCL published these figures between October 2020 and May 2022; the series is final and complete to 2022-05-11. This site runs entirely from files in this repository and makes no network requests.

Historical UCL COVID-19 statistics

UCL's daily count of confirmed COVID-19 cases among staff and students, October 2020 – May 2022, preserved with the newsletters that explain it.

UCL published these statistics on a web page that was overwritten with each update and kept no history. A cron job fetched that page hourly and extracted the numbers, so the series can be read as a whole rather than a day at a time. The page itself is now gone — its URL redirects elsewhere — so this archive, and the Internet Archive's capture, are what remain. The figures are reported cases only and undercount the true total by an unknown amount; "on campus" marks recent presence, not the site of infection.

19months of published data
2020-10-09 → 2022-05-11
6,140hourly page snapshots
3,066 distinct contents
168newsletters
9 Mar 2020 → 4 May 2022

Weekly cases

 

7-day totals. Before 2021-01-05 the line is a rolling 7-day total of the daily figures rather than UCL's reported weekly total — why. For daily and cumulative charts, filters and the full discussion, see the interactive visualisation →

What is in the archive

How to cite

Murdoch, S. J. (2026). Historical UCL COVID-19 statistics (v2.0-final) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21626802

The code and extracted data are published under the Apache-2.0 licence. The reproduced UCL pages and update newsletters are copyright University College London — not covered by that licence and not relicensed — and are included for the historical record as the evidence behind the figures.