Teenagers socialising out of school have played a role in the growing number of coronavirus cases in London, government advisers believe.
The Office for National Statistics infection survey, published yesterday, found that the capital was the only region with a definite rise in infections.
The UK’s R rate, measuring the virus’s transmission, rose slightly to between 0.9 and 1.0. When it is below 1, the outbreak is shrinking and the virus will eventually die out.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said that the growth rate of the virus was between 0 and minus 2 per cent, indicating that case numbers were somewhere between flat and falling 2 per cent each day.
However, Sage was “not confident that R is currently below 1 in
