UK's rate of Covid-19 infection rate remains stable
There has been “encouraging progress” in the fight against coronavirus as the reproduction rate of Covid-19 has remained unchanged in the UK over the last week according to transport secretary Grant Shapps.
At today's Downing Street briefing he said the UK’s R-number stands between 0.7 and 0.9 – meaning less and less people will contract the virus.
He said: “This is encouraging progress and suggests that around 1 in 1700 people in the community had coronavirus in the latest period of the survey.
“Also confirmed today is that the estimate of the R-number for the UK is unchanged since last week, at some point 0.7 to 0.9.
“We want to keep the R-number below one and R is, of course, the average number of additional people infected by each infected person.
In Scotland the R-number is believed to be between 0.6 and 0.8.
