One in 15 children in school years 7 to 11 are estimated to have had coronavirus in the week up to 2 October.
The Department for Education found the number of pupils out of school for coronavirus-related reasons increased by two thirds in a fortnight.
This is up from 122,300 children, or 1.5% of all pupils on 16 September - a 67% rise from two weeks ago. England's COVID-19 weekly reproduction"R" number was estimated to be between 0.9 and 1.1, slightly higher thanAn R number between 0.9 and 1.1 means that for every 10 people infected, they will on average infect between nine and 11 other people.
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