Covid infection rates are declining but still rising, data show

New data Suggests Covid infection rate It is slowing across England and Wales.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (ONS), one in 90 people (618,700) in the UK was infected with the virus between October 25 and 31, up from 568,100 last week.

Although the number of cases has increased, the recent increase in infection rates is “not as steep as in the previous week,” ONS said.

Researchers have warned that infection rates are still increasing and that all regions of England (except the northeast) are showing increased levels of infection.

It comes as Mass test pilot started in LiverpoolHundreds of people in the city are lining up for quick results testing.

At the Liverpool Tennis Center, one of the six facilities that opened on Friday, people started waiting about 45 minutes outside before opening.

The military was brought into the city to help provide a plan to use the lateral flow test to provide results within an hour for people who do not show symptoms of the virus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson Rapid inspections, which will be piloted on Merseyside for the next 10 days or so, could be a “real way to survive the crisis.”

His comment looks like this Britain entered the second national blockade The number of cases surged this week.

Meanwhile, health experts say plans to screen Liverpool’s population for the coronavirus are not fit for purpose.

A group of scholars said that “the potential for harmful diversion of resources and public funds is enormous,” and warned that the £ 500m project could be a “costly failure.”

Angela Raffle, a public health consultant based in Bristol, said the plan for a mass test in Liverpool was “not fit for purpose.”

She continued. “From screening experience, without first careful evaluation, there is no route that guarantees proper quality, no certainty of on-site test performance, no complete information for participants, no means. The result is an expensive mess that is more harmful than good, to ensure that the necessary interventions are actually made for those who have positive results when they embark on a screening program.

Elsewhere, the government will announce on Saturday that a comprehensive provision will be extended to allow all UK pubs to provide takeaway food and liquor.

It comes when the official Covid deaths increase 355, plus 23,287, according to Friday’s government figures Cases of coronavirus confirmed in the laboratory have been reported throughout the United Kingdom.

Another figure produced by the official national statistical agency suggests that a total of 64,170 deaths, including Covid-19, are currently occurring in the United Kingdom.

Here’s how the infection rate changed:

The ONS Covid-19 Infection Survey found an average of 45,700 new cases of Covid-19 per day in private homes between October 25 and 31.

This is down from an estimated 51,900 new cases per day during the period October 17-23.

According to ONS, this data suggests that the rate of new infections “seems to be stable with about 50,000 new infections per day in recent weeks.”

Ruth Studley, Head of Analysis for the Covid-19 Infection Investigation, said: “At the national level, infections have slowed across England and Wales, but are still increasing.

“In England, infection levels are rising in all regions except the northeast.

“Infection levels in young adults and teens and older appear to have leveled off recently, but remain most likely to be transmitted, despite the increase in all other age groups. “

ONS said that when it examined new infections daily, infection rates across the UK seemed to be “stable.”

This number does not include people staying in hospitals or nursing homes. It is based on more than 689,000 swab tests collected from across the UK for people with and without symptoms.

Meanwhile, the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said Queen Elizabeth Hospital was forced to postpone all planned procedures.

This follows a surge in Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 emergency cases. On November 3, approximately 359 beds were occupied by confirmed Covid-19 patients.

On Friday, the Emergency Science Advisory Group (Sage), which advises the government, said the reproductive rate (R-value) for coronavirus infections across the UK was between 1.1 and 1.3.

“Sage is confident that the epidemic has continued to grow in the UK in recent weeks.

“There is some evidence that growth may be slowing in some parts of the country, but in these areas the levels of illness are very high, with R dropping to 1 and much more than 1. Significant levels of health care demand and mortality will continue until below. Over the long term. “