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An interim report from the REACT programme, which includes results from home coronavirus tests taken between 13th and 24th November, shows that an estimated 0.96% of England鈥檚 population has the virus, or around 1 in 100 people.

This is roughly a 30% drop in the number of infections compared with previous findings, where more than 1 in 80 or 1.3% of people had the virus as of 2nd November.

The research from Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI shows that the overall R number has also fallen to below 1, estimated at 0.88, meaning that the country鈥檚 epidemic is currently shrinking rather than growing.

Downward trends were seen across the majority of the country, including in previous hotspots in the North, and most age groups except those of school age, where there has been an increase. The results also highlight that the virus is having an uneven impact, with health workers, people living in large households and minority ethnic individuals having a higher risk of infection.

Professor Paul Elliott, director of the programme at Imperial and BRC Informatics & Biobanking Theme Lead, said: 鈥淥ur robust data offer encouraging signs for England鈥檚 epidemic, where we鈥檙e seeing a fall in infections at the national level and in particular across regions that were previously worst affected. These trends suggest that the tiered approach helped to curb infections in these areas and that lockdown has added to this effect.

鈥淎s we approach a challenging time of year, it鈥檚 even more vital that through our actions and behaviours we all play our part in helping to keep the virus at bay.鈥�

These findings from the programme are available in a pre-print report and will be submitted for peer-review.

The REACT programme is a series of studies that are monitoring how the virus is spreading across the country. Commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, it is being carried out in partnership with Ipsos MORI and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. This Story is supported by 蓝莓视频 Imperial BRC.

Kelly Beaver, Managing Director – Public Affairs at Ipsos MORI said: 鈥淭he REACT study programme has processed over one million tests as we track in real-time the prevalence of COVID-19 across England. We鈥檙e incredibly grateful to all those members of the public who鈥檝e taken part, who have contributed to this vitally important study.鈥�

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