Covid R rate up AGAIN
That is the same proportion of people who were estimated to have coronavirus at the peak of the second wave in early January when the UK was still in a third coronavirus lockdown.
“There are already some encouraging signs in terms of a dip in case numbers. If it isn’t peaking now, then most of the modelling suggests it should peak very soon, as long as we keep getting boosters into people’s arms. His comments were off the back of a study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases which found three-quarters of vaccinated people will not catch the virus from someone in their own household.
Having a booster tops up waning immunity and hundreds of thousands of people have now had their boosters thanks to the campaign.
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