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UK coronavirus R rate officially above 1 and could be 1.3 in London and North West
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mirror.co.ukEngland's coronavirus cases are at risk of spiralling out of control with a R number as high as 1.2. The figure stands between 1 and 1.2, the government has estimated today, meaning the growth rate sits in a range of -1% to +3%.
The estimated growth rate means the number of new infections is either shrinking by as little as 1% or growing by as much as 3% every day.
Every part of the country has an r-number higher or spanning one - the number above which infections can grow exponentially.
While the R rate may appear relatively low, it has allowed for a doubling in coronavirus cases in England every seven or eight days.
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