LONDON, July 8 — Covid-19 infections in England have quadrupled in a month since early June, a large prevalence study showed on Thursday, ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to fully re-open the economy in two weeks’ time.
According to the research, led by Imperial College London, cases were estimated to be doubling every six days as a new wave fuelled by the Delta coronavirus variant picks up pace. “It’s very difficult to make an argument, based on the type of data that we get, that it’s a good thing to open early,” Steven Riley, Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics at Imperial College London, told reporters.
The research found that Covid infection rates were three times lower in people under 65 who had received two doses of vaccine compared with those who were unvaccinated, showing the importance of the vaccine rollout in reducing case numbers.
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