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Covid-19: Signs the UK lockdown is working to slow spread of highly contagious variant – Stuff.co.nz
The number of cases is no longer rising exponentially, creating hope the United Kingdom’s third lockdown is working.
The coronavirus pandemic may no longer be spreading exponentially in the United Kingdom, according to government data suggesting the countrys third lockdown is working.
The official estimate of the R rate which measures how many people each infected person passes the virus on to fell to between 0.8 and 1, the results released on Friday showed. When R is above 1 the virus spreads exponentially. Last week, the R rate was estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3.
The government said the case rates remain…
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