Coronavirus cases fell by roughly 30% during England's lockdown - CNN

Nov 30, 2020

Swab tests on more than 105,000 people showed that Covid-19 infections are declining in England, according to an interim report from the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) program.

The report includes results from home coronavirus tests taken between November 13 and 24, and shows that "an estimated 0.96% of England's 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," according to the researchers from Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI.

The four-week national lockdown in England, which saw non-essential businesses close and residents told not to mix with other households, began on November 5 and will end on Wednesday.

It came after the UK experienced a second wave of infection, which particularly affected regions in the north of England.

The government introduced a localized system for the country, under which regions where infections were high were placed under tighter restrictions than other areas.

England will return to a tiered system on Wednesday.

"We're seeing a fall in infections at the national level and in particular across regions that were previously worst affected.