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Boris Johnson says that the country has to 'hold its nerve' as lockdown looks to continue into March

The R value has sunk below one for the first time since the third lockdown was introduced, official figures have revealed, in the first formal signal that the new restrictions are suppressing the virus. But how is it calculated? Is it reliable? And how does it vary across regions of the UK? What is the R rate? The reproduction, or R rate, is the number of people that a single infected person will go on to infect. Anything above one, means that each person will be passing the virus on to mor...

Some scientists argue current method of measuring reproduction of virus does not provide an accurate picture