Data shows slight fall in people testing positive for Covid in England
by Nicola Davis Science correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#5D5Z0)
Findings chime with latest R number of between 0.8 and 1.0 for England and the UK as a whole
The percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus in England has fallen slightly since the latest lockdown was introduced, but remains high, data has shown.
The latest release from the Office for National Statistics, which conducts a survey based on swabs from randomly selected households, has found that between 3 and 16 January about 1.9% of people in the community in England, or one in 55 people, had Covid - a decline from about one in 50 between 27 December and 2 January.
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