Regionally, the R number is as high as 1.6 in North East and Yorkshire, the South East and the South West. R represents the average number of people each Covid-19 positive person goes on to infect. An R value between 1.2 and 1.5 means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 12 and 15 other people. Elsewhere, the latest figures from Public Health England (PHE) show cases of the dominant Delta variant rose by a third in the past week. Of the 216,249 cases, 180,643 have been in England, 28,559 in Scotland, 3,666 in Wales and 3,381 in Northern Ireland.

Source: Daily Mirror July 09, 2021 12:33 UTC