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The UK’s daily coronavirus cases are falling almost quickly as they rose earlier this summer.
During the first two …
Good Subscriber Account active since The UK’s daily coronavirus cases are falling almost quickly as they rose earlier this summer. During the first two weeks of July, average daily cases there jumped 80%, peaking at nearly 55,000 on July 17. That’s close to the levels recorded during the worst days of the UK’s winter outbreak, when vaccines weren’t yet widely available. But cases have dropped dramatically in the last week, down to just 25,000 cases on Monday, as shown in the chart below. Experts, though surprised, have a few theories as to what happened. A recent decline in testing could be one factor: The UK administered 9% fewer tests this week than it did three weeks prior, and testing overall has declined since mid-March. “A lot of the people who are becoming symptomatic are becoming more mildly symptomatic because they’re younger people or they’re people who have been vaccinated,” Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, told CNBC on Monday.
