Testing Behaviour News Today

Theres a couple of things that are a bit complicated to disentangle. people are obviously changing their behaviour, so over christmas they gather in different settings and groups and also testing restrictions, the testing behaviour is different, so that contributes to fluctuations in the total number of cases that arent necessarily reflective of the total infections in the community. the numbers need to be interpreted with care. clearly the people gathering the data also see that there is a dela...

Silver in rio. there are updates on the bbc sport website. the number of new covid infections has fallen for five days in a row for the first time since february. there were just over 29 thousand cases yesterday — compared to more than 48 thousand last week. im joined now by dr deepti gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist at queen mary university of london. thank you for your time to date. what are your thoughts on what is going on with the figures here? there is a level of inconsistency betwee...