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Victoria Bell Mon, January 11, 2021, 11:55 AM EST
The number of coronavirus infections in the UK could be declining overall, according to a health expert behind the world’s largest ongoing study of COVID-19.
The King’s College London Zoe app found there were 61,813 daily new cases of COVID-19 in the UK on the 7 January, down from a peak of around 70,000 at the beginning of January.
Evidence from the app, where users update their symptoms daily and say whether they have been tested in order to paint a clear picture of how COVID is spreading, suggests there were over 839,603 current symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the UK in the same period.
Researchers behind the study said that the trend is still up in the over-60s, which “explains the huge pressure on the hospitals, many 50% full of COVID patients”...
Victoria Bell Mon, January 11, 2021, 11:55 AM EST
The number of coronavirus infections in the UK could be declining overall, according to a health expert behind the world’s largest ongoing study of COVID-19.
The King’s College London Zoe app found there were 61,813 daily new cases of COVID-19 in the UK on the 7 January, down from a peak of around 70,000 at the beginning of January.
Evidence from the app, where users update their symptoms daily and say whether they have been tested in order to paint a clear picture of how COVID is spreading, suggests there were over 839,603 current symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the UK in the same period.
Researchers behind the study said that the trend is still up in the over-60s, which “explains the huge pressure on the hospitals, many 50% full of COVID patients”...