The news has brought renewed calls from the sector for lateral flow tests to be sent directly to providers, and for early years workers to be prioritised for vaccinations.
Reports of cases to Ofsted rose from 1,267 for the week starting 4 January to 2,357 starting the week of the 11 January, according to data published by Ofsted.
A further 2,279 reports were received in the week beginning the 18 January.
Each report is a notification by a setting of an incidence of at least one positive Covid test in the nursery, pre-school or childminder setting.
No data is published on the number of individual cases among staff and children in a setting, meaning that the number of individual positive test cases among staff and/or children could potentially be much higher.
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