Covid-19: UK variant 'may be more deadly' but nation's R number drops

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Coronavirus evening update: UK variant 'may be more deadly' but nation's R number drops

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Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.

The UK's R number, a measure of whether the epidemic is growing or shrinking, is at or below one for the first time since early December. The government's scientific advisers have estimated the virus isAnything below one means infections are in retreat. Earlier, Office for National Statistics figures suggested cases are decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain. But Prof Whitty said about one in 55 people in England still had the virus.

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This news serves absolutely no purpose other than stir up panic amongst the public. May be relevant to the NHS. Before you, as a reputed news agency, release these kind of science, wait for the data to get stronger, reviewed and published. Half baked at the best now.

well thats just a little bit bullshit innit

Raworth on 20 o’clock news just said 10 in 100 men in 60s die if they catch COVID. I replayed it to make sure that’s what she said 🙄 Useless.

Why don't they close airports/ports for travellers. That's how we get new variants. That's how it arrived here in the first place!

Numbers down, every body out! Numbers gone up again, every body in! In out, in out, spread it all about.

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