The new release of Covid-19 in the UK has stabilized or fallen in most parts of Britain with the country under severe lockout, even as total case loads remained high.
The Eastern Mediterranean was only where the percentage of cases related to the new variant rose in the week to January 23, the Office for National Statistics said Friday, suggesting that the restriction of the UK has helped arrest a strain that officials have warned is more deadly. and easier to distribute.
In total, 1 in 55 people in England were infected with any form of the disease in a week, the ONS estimated, as the number of cases fell slightly to just over 1.06 one million. The rate in London, the worst affected region, was at 1 in 35. Both figures are unchanged from last week.
The findings provide further evidence that the severe lock-in installed in England in early January is affecting a spiraling number of diseases that were threatening to overtake hospitals. The most recent seven-day average for reported cases is just over 20,000, down from nearly 60,000 around the turn of the year.
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