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Over the last two years the COVID-19 Dashboard has played a central role in managing the pandemic. By reporting near real-time data on key indicators of transmission and the impacts of COVID-19, the Dashboard aids strategic decision making and informs the pandemic response.

Our daily 4pm updates remain of high interest to the public, public health experts, academics, officials, and the media attracting 100,000 users to the site each day on average.

As the Dashboard team leader I oversee the work of the experts behind the Dashboard – the analysts, data engineers, content designers, interaction designers, user researchers and a programme manager who work together to produce the Dashboard product.

Together the team have worked on the constant evolution of the Dashboard. This has included the improvement of the Dashboard system to provide the capability of sustaining more than a million hits per minute. The current Dashboard record is 529,230 hits per minute or 8,830 hits per second reached on 22 December 2021.

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