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Covid-19 cases are dropping in under-40s in England, PHE data shows

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Coronavirus infection rates fell among the under-40s last week but continued to rise in older people, Public Health England figures show. In its weekly report PHE saw per-person cases plummet by a fifth (21 per cent) in teenagers during half term, while infections also declined among schoolchildren and people in their 20s. Infections continued to … Read more

Covid shifts to the young: Two-thirds of new infections in the UK are in the under-40s

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Two-thirds of new coronavirus infections in the UK are in the under-40s, while the rate among older people has fallen sharply in an ‘extraordinary’ shift. The number of over-50s testing positive for Covid-19 now represents just a fifth of those nationwide, compared with three quarters in the spring. Just three per cent are now made … Read more