Claim: The UK provided 20% of the new cases of coronavirus in the world on Sunday, 17 October 2021.
Fact-check: Viral tweet overstates UK's lead in Covid-19 cases - Full Fact
Verdict: it's more like 15% of reported cases, and that may be influenced by different reporting times between countries and delays caused by the weekend. the seven day average is a better measure to compare and on 18 october this showed the uk had 10% of new cases.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2021-10-19T00:00:00