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There is a roughly three-week time delay between someone catching the disease and dying from it, which means it takes about 21 days for a trend in cases to translate to the fatality figures.
Hospital admissions began to fall across the capital and the South East by January 6, just two days after lockdown was imposed. This suggests Tier 4 was enough to curb the spread of the virus.
NINETY per cent of Covid cases on the Isle of Wight are now through the new strain of the virus.
Britain could have suffered 120,000 Covid deaths by the time No10 can safely ease restrictions because enough of the country has been vaccinated, experts fear Department of Health statistics show the UK's Covid-19 death toll already stands at 81,000 since March But experts fear another 30,000 deaths are already baked into the figures because of December cases And deaths are unlikely to peak until February 16, four weeks after coronavirus cases will do the same
Ministers have refused to rule out tougher lockdown restrictions for England, but national testing data shows that infections appear to be levelling off in recent days amid a national lockdown.