Coronavirus cases FELL again in England in the first week of December — but there were still 481,500 people infected at the end of lockdown, ONS figures show
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The number of people catching coronavirus in England fell by almost 10 per cent in the final week of the second national lockdown, official data shows.
A total of 481,500 people tested positive for the disease in the seven days up to December 5, down from 521,300 the week prior (8 per cent), according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
It was the third week in a row that weekly infections dropped after reaching an all-time high of 664,700 in the week up to November 14.
The 481,500 weekly case figure means that about one in 115 people in England were carrying the coronavirusy at any given time.
Infections fell in every region of the country except in London, the ONS said, and there are ‘early signs that rates may have increased in the East’.
The Government-run data collecting body warned Covid-19 transmission continued to rise among secondary school-age children and less so in people in their 40s — despite the lockdown.
But the percentage of people testing positive decreased in older teenagers and young adults, those aged 25 to 34 years and 50 to 69 years, it added.
