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Coronavirus epidemic grows in U.K. as reproduction number rises above 1.0 – NBC News
The reproduction number or “R rate” of coronavirus transmission across the U.K. has risen above 1 for the first time since early March, new data shows.
LONDON The reproduction or “R” number of coronavirus transmission across the U.K. have risen above 1.0 for the first time since early March, a government scientific advisory body revealed Friday. An outbreak can grow when the figure is above that.
The estimate for R, which represents the average number of people each COVID-19 positive person goes on to infect, is currently between 1.0 and 1.2., the data released by the Government Office for Science and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergenc…
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