England’s coronavirus R rate is now between 0.7 and 1.0, according to SAGE’s latest estimates — but official figures show more than a million people were carrying the virus last week as infections levelled off. The Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies said the reproduction value – the average number of people each Covid patient infects … Read more
The Metropolitan Police have deployed extra officers to Hammersmith and Fulham and Hackney as the Government tries to control those boroughs with the highest rates of coronavirus transmission. As the nation continues to grapple with the pandemic, officers will conduct extra patrols in the worst-affected areas in the capital to help clampdown on breaches of the … Read more
The coronavirus rate of infection could be as high as 1.8 in Northern Ireland – as the country records 43 more cases within 23 clusters. The Department of Health said the R-rate rose from between 0.5 and one last week, to between 0.8 and 1.8 this week, in a dramatic escalation of Covid-19 in the … Read more
South West England’s coronavirus R rate could now have edged above one, government scientists warned today as they admitted the Midlands is now the only region where it is definitely below the dreaded number as Britain recorded just 48 more Covid-19 deaths. Number 10‘s expert advisory panel SAGE revealed the reproduction rate — the average number … Read more
Coronavirus R-rate could be ABOVE the dreaded figure of one in England because of the ‘uncertainty’ in the data, leaked documents warn Document shows Public Health England saying it ‘cannot preclude’ an R above 1 Government insists the R is between 0.7 and 0.9 in the UK as a whole But warned last week it … Read more