we did our survey between the 20th may and 7th ofjune, and over 100,000 people took part. what we found during that period there has been exponential growth in the virus from the quite low levels we got to in our last survey, which was april may. and rapid growth with the r number above one. but in the older people, we saw that this weakening of the association between infection rate and hospitalisations and death has maintained, and it is actually in the younger people as you said where people have not been vaccinated on the whole. our head of statistics robert cuffe told me more about the ons data and what it means. this is a bit different to what we already knew because we already knew if you get vaccinated you are less likely to get really, really sick and end up in hospital. this study swabs people
this week on bbc news, reporting from right across the uk looking at life through the pandemic and looking at how your community and business has been affected. today i am in beautiful somerset talking to the local wedding industry and asking how they have been coping. new data suggests that the covid epidemic in england is growing, mainly driven by younger age groups who are not yet vaccinated. the analysis from imperial college london s react 1 study, looked at the period from 20th may to seventhjune and found that of the over 108,000 people tested 135 were positive, which is a rise from 0.1% to 0.15%.
we are reporting from right across the uk looking at life through the pandemic and asking how your community and your business have been affected. today i am in beautiful somerset talking to the local wedding industry and asking how they ve been coping. new data suggests that the covid epidemic in england is growing , mainly driven by younger age groups who are not yet vaccinated. the analysis from imperial college london s react 1 study, looked at the period from 20th may to seventh june. over 108,000 people were tested and 135 were positive, a rise from 0.1% to 0.15%.
post vaccination in rural areas. professor paul elliot is director of the react study. we did our survey between the 20th may and 17th ofjune, may and 7th ofjune, and over 100,000 people took part. what we found during that period there has been exponential growth in the virus from the quite low levels we got to in our last survey, which was april may. rapid growth with the r number above one. but in the older people, we saw that this weakening of the association between infection rate and hospitalisations and death has maintained, and it is actually in the younger people as you said where people have not been vaccinated on the whole. with me is our head of statistics robert cuffe. i read through a whole load of
with a seven day average of 7,888 cases, as well as an increase in hospital admissions with over 1,000 patients admitted in the last seven days. however, daily deaths still remain low, with a seven day average of nine deaths across the uk. i ve been speaking to the director of the react study, professor paul elliott. we did our survey between the 20th may and 17th ofjune, and over 100,000 people took part. what we found during that period there has been exponential growth in the virus from the quite low levels we got to in our last survey which was april may. rapid growth with the r number above one. but in the older people,