‘The virus has taken off’: Alarming study says 45,000 people get COVID every day in England – Yahoo News Australia

The largest home testing study for coronavirus suggests that new infections have reached 45,000 every day in England.
An analysis of swab tests taken by 175,000 people between 18 September and 5 October found that one in every 170 tests was returning a positive result.
The research, led by Imperial College London, reports that 0.60% of the population, or 60 per 10,000, had the SARS-CoV-2 virus, compared to 0.13% in the previous round of testing.
Professor Paul Elliott, from the School of Publ…

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