Reading’s Covid case rate has dropped to below 400 having reached a peak of more than 800 just three weeks ago.
The Covid-19 case rate reached its highest peak during the pandemic in Reading on January 8, with a rate of 810.4.
It has now gone down to 390.7, as of the latest data from January 29.
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The case rate or rate of infection is the number of people who tested positive for Covid-19 per 100,000 over the last seven days and includes a five-day delay.
It has now been one month since Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the UK would go into its third lockdown, with no easing of restrictions currently planned until March 8 at the earliest.
Comparatively, in the three weeks leading up to the January 8 peak, the case rate rose from 436.4 on December 18 to 810.4 on January 8.
Case rate change over the last three weeks
Last week Reading Borough Council’s (RBC) Public Health Consultant David Munday said: “It looks like we are coming out the other side. We are continuing to decrease. It’s definitely moving down again.”
The numbers were moving from the 600s to 500s at that point.
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The rate of infection is the over-arching key metric Mr Munday looks at, with positivity rates and spread amongst age also important.
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