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Coronavirus outbreak in England 'worse than thought with nearly 140,000 now infected'

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Around 136,000 people in England currently have the coronavirus, according to scientists. The figure - based on research by the University of Oxford and the Office of National Statistics - is much higher than previous estimates based on testing.

It means 0.24 per cent of adults - or one in every 400 - are infected with the deadly bug and some could be spreading it unwittingly.

Carl Heneghan, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford, says the data suggests the peak of the UK's coronavirus outbreak in April was much worse than previously thought. "To me it suggests that, at peak, we had loads more cases than we realised," he told the Sun. "It shows we have nearly 140,000 infected with Covid, which is far more than we are

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