R rate in England as high as 1 as Prime Minister warns people not to mix indoors at Easter

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Sign up for the latest from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer Williams England's coronavirus reproduction rate remains as high as 1, according to latest estimates from Sage.

No UK-wide estimates for the virus reproduction and growth rate have been agreed by scientists this week, the Department of Health has said, reports the Mirror.

Last week, the R number was between 0.7 and 0.9 across the UK. But this week in England, the R is between 0.8 and 1 and in seven NHS regions it is as high as one.

And the R value means that, on average, every 10 people infected with coronavirus will infect between eight and 10 other people.

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