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Expert says Christmas Day sparked 130,000 new Covid cases in England – Wales Online
“This position is the most serious we’ve been in so far this pandemic,”
The impact of families mixing at Christmas has been revealed by Public Health England.
Dr Susan Hopkins from PHE said the maximum impact of mixing over Christmas was seen on December 29 and 30, with more than 70,000 cases reported on the 29th and 60,000 on the 30th in England alone.
We hope that everyone is now staying at home, reducing their contacts, and that we can start to see rapid declines in new infections, she told BBC Breakfast.
She said it could take 12 to 14 days for infections to come…
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