UK confident epidemic is shrinking as R number reduces
From Samantha Tapfumaneyi
The UK is confident that the epidemic is shrinking as the Covid-19 reproduction number (R) is now between 0.7 and 1.0, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Friday.
The R is the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to.
The growth rate in the UK is estimated to between -5% and -2% and the R number is estimated to be below 1, meaning that the number of “new infections is shrinking by between 2% to 5% every day”.
DHSC added that “it remains important that everyone continues to stay at home in order to keep the R value down, protect the NHS and help save lives”.
Vaccination stock photo (Image: from pxhere.com no attribution required) Cornwall has been revealed to be on the best performing areas in the country for delivering the Covid vaccine. Rollout of the vaccine continues apace in Cornwall with a second mass vaccination centre opening at the Royal Cornwall Showground in Wadebridge on Monday. It joined another mass centre at Stithians Showground as well as vaccination centres in 13 other locations across Cornwall and two in pharmacies in Roche and Truro. On Tuesday the governing body meeting of NHS Kernow heard that the rollout had been one of the best in the country.
A CHIEF pharmacist has denied there is a delay getting appointment letters for vaccines to the over 70s at the newly opened Stithians Vaccination Centre after a nurse posted an appeal on Facebook urging people to book a slot. He has also stressed that people should wait to get a letter before attempting to book an appointment. It is after the unidentified person, who claimed to be a nurse, put out a shout out to people living in Probus saying invitations for people over 70 to come and have their vaccines at the centre had been delayed in being sent out. The post has since been deleted.
Two more Covid deaths reported in Devon and Cornwall s hospitals as more than 300 new cases confirmed in counties
But the latest figures come on the same day it was confirmed some areas of the region have England s lowest infection rates
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