The percentage of people testing positive for Covid decreased in the week ending 12 February accoring to figures out this morning from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

One in 115 people in private households tested positive in the period compared to one in 80 people in England in the previous week.

They estimate that  481,300 people within the community population in England had COVID-19.In Wales it is around 1 in 125 people, in Scotland around 1 in 180 people and in Northern ireland around 1 in 105 people.

North-west England had the highest proportion of people of any region in England likely to test positive for coronavirus, around one in 85 people in private households in the North-west were estimated to have had Covid.

In London,the estimate was one in 100, and for the West Midlands it was one in 110 while it was one in 120 people for the East Midlands and for Yorkshire and the Humber; one in 125 people for eastern England; and one in 135 for north-east England, south-east England and south-west England.

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