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The figures are based mostly on checks of individuals in non-public households
The variety of individuals testing optimistic for coronavirus in England is constant to fall, in accordance with estimates from the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics.
Round one in 1,700 individuals had been contaminated between 25 Might and seven June, or 33,000 people, in comparison with one in 1,000 earlier than then.
The figures are based mostly on 20,000 checks on individuals in non-public households.
Everybody within the examine was examined whether or not they had signs or not.
The ONS figures are thought to offer an excellent image of the proportion of individuals contaminated with the virus in the neighborhood – however they don’t embody infections in hospitals and care houses.
There are additionally huge margins of error across the figures as a result of they’re based mostly on small numbers of individuals testing optimistic.
On this evaluation, 19,933 individuals from 9,179 households carried out their very own swab checks of their throat and nostril, which search for the presence of the virus.
Simply 11 people from eight households examined optimistic for coronavirus, permitting statisticians to give you estimates for the entire inhabitants.
On the finish of April, the proportion of the inhabitants in England testing optimistic was 0.4% – now it is lower than 0.1%, the ONS says.
That will imply a median of 31,600 new infections per week in non-public households, or 4,500 per day.