Coronavirus: R number 'very similar' across UK
Coronavirus cases are falling at roughly the same rate across the UK, according to a leading scientist advising the government.
At the peak of the epidemic in April, everywhere except Northern Ireland, Wales and the south west of England were seeing more than 100 deaths a day. That compares with fewer than 35 in each nation and region on 20 May.Two weeks ago, the Mayors of Greater Manchester and Liverpool, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram,
Prof Keith Neal, an epidemiologist at the University of Nottingham, added:"This is not one pandemic, but a series of local epidemics all occurring at the same time." They warn that national estimates of R come with a wide margin of uncertainty and that's even wider for regional estimates based on smaller populations.
But that is because deaths in London have fallen unusually quickly - rather than the decline in the Midlands being slow.
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