Two ONS infection survey updates in two days - it must be Xmas.
It's only advanced by 3 days, but we can see large increases in E/W/NI.
1.5m are estimated to be infected in England over the period 13th to 19th Dec.
But there's more...
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It's only advanced by 3 days, but we can see large increases in E/W/NI.
1.5m are estimated to be infected in England over the period 13th to 19th Dec.
But there's more...
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The 🏴figure of 2.83% is an average over the previous week. Looking at the data, the latest estimate, for the 19th, is 3.76%, up 77% on a week earlier.
And there's more still...
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And there's more still...
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London is estimated at a staggering 9.5%, three times the rate of just a week ago.
Remember that the current level of admissions won't reflect much of this growth, and we are 5 days further on from the latest point shown here.
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Remember that the current level of admissions won't reflect much of this growth, and we are 5 days further on from the latest point shown here.
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At 240 average admissions a day, London is less than one doubling away from the level at which the govt has said that further measures may be needed. Given these figures, I'd say it's highly likely we will reach that point very quickly after Xmas.
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