Death rate back to normal as Covid infections fall by third in a week
Just one in 220 people are now infected compared to one in 145 the week previous
Coronavirus infections have fallen by one third in a week, data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show, as Public Health England (PHE) surveillance confirmed death rates were back to normal.
Experts continued to call for an earlier relaxation of restrictions, although sources close to the Government insisted that a five-week gap between each stage was crucial to check cases were not rising, suggesting the release dates would not be moved.