The R number for the UK has fallen to between 1 and 1.2, the closest it’s been to 1 since early September.
It comes as the Office for National Statistics says the number of people infected with coronavirus is slowing down.
Data up to 6 November, the day after England’s second lockdown began, shows infections falling in the north west but rising in the south and Midlands.
In Northern Ireland, infection rates were levelling off, the ONS says.
But in Wales rising infection levels were still continuing.
And it’s too early to say if they were stabilising a week ago in Scotland.
Although growth may be slowing in some parts of the country, the government’s scientific advisers say “significant levels of healthcare demand and mortality will persist until R is reduced to and remains well below 1 for an extended period of time”.
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