Coronavirus infections are surging among the over-fifties – Telegraph.co.uk

The new figures are drawn from a cohort of up to 150,000 volunteers evenly distributed across the country, who undertook swab testing for current infection between August 4 and September 7.
Prevalence of the disease is now doubling every 7.7 days, with a national prevalence for England of 0.126 per cent, compared to 0.040 per cent up to August 8.
The data comes ahead of the governments first reimposition of national restrictions, due to start on Monday, which include a ‘rule of six’ limit on f…

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