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In the last seven days leading to March 1, the UK reported 55,859 new coronavirus cases. This data suggests Covid cases in the UK significantly decreased by 28.7 percent in the last seven days, compared to the previous week. But despite dropping coronavirus cases and ongoing vaccine rollout, on Monday Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people not to “blow” the UK’s progress by not sticking to the lockdown rules.
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Coronavirus cases in the UK are now at significantly lower levels than they were at the start of the third lockdown, with 8,523 Covid cases reported on Friday. In the last seven days, 67,816 Covid cases have been reported in total, a drop of 16.8 percent from the previous week. But coronavirus data in some regions continues to concern medical experts, with a handful of places showing numbers are slightly on the rise.
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Coronavirus is continuing to spread across the UK, with national lockdown measures in place in a bid to drive down cases as the Government rolls out its vaccination programme. Now new data has shown an estimated one in eight people in England had Covid-19 by December last year.