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The number of people infected with the coronavirus in England dropped by two-thirds between mid-January and mid-February, according to a new report from the REACT study conducted by Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI.
Initial findings of the survey, completed by over 85,400 volunteers in England, show that 0.51 percent of the people (or 1 in 196) tested positive between February 4 and 13. The previous survey, conducted between January 6 and 22, showed a prevalence of 1.57 percent (or 1 in 63).
Because the decline in infections is similar across all age groups, it appears it is lockdown restrictions rather than vaccinations that are responsible for the drop, the government indicated.
The figures indicate England’s “lockdown measures are effectively bringing infections down,” professor Paul Elliott, director of the program at Imperial, said in a government statement.
The number of infections dropped in every region in England. But “large household size, living in a deprived neighbourhood, and areas with higher numbers of Asian ethnicity individuals were associated with increased prevalence,” according to the statement. Health care and care homes workers were also more likely to test positive.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce his lockdown easing plans on February 22.
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