According to an interim report from the Real-Time Assessment Community of Community Transmission (RAACT) program, swine tests on more than 105,000 people in England show a decline in covid-19 infection.
The report includes the results of home coronavirus tests taken between 13 and 24 November and shows that “an estimated 0.96% of England’s population has the virus, or 1 in 100 people.”
According to researchers at Imperial College London and Ipsos Mori, “the number of infections is down by about 30% compared to previous findings, where 80 to 1 or 1.3% of people had the virus by November 2nd.”
In a four-week national lockdown in England, non-essential businesses were spotted nearby and residents said they would not mix in other homes, starting on 5 November and ending on Wednesday.
The UK came after experiencing a second wave of infection, affecting regions particularly in the north of England. The government introduced a local system for the country, under which infectious regions were kept under tougher restrictions than other areas. England will return to the tiered system on Wednesday.
The researchers said most of the cases in the country involved age groups other than former hotspots and school age, the researchers said. Schools remained open during the second national lockdown, while it closed in the first lockdown in the spring.
The researchers also drew attention to the fact that people working on health, people living in large homes and people of ethnic minorities are at higher risk of being infected and are “unequally affected by the virus”.
“We are seeing a reduction in infections at the national level and especially in the surrounding most affected areas. These trends suggest that the tiered approach has helped curb infections in these areas and that lockdown has increased this impact.” Elliott, director of programs at Imperial.
Research has also shown that the R-number (or fertility number, which indicates how many other infected people each pass on the virus) has fallen below 0.88, “meaning the country’s epidemic is currently shrinking rather than growing. “According to researchers.
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