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tblue37

(65,357 posts) Wed Jan 5, 2022, 12:54 PM Jan 2022

More than 5% of entire UK population contracted covid last week:

Added together, at least 3.7 million people in the United Kingdom contracted Covid last week — which is more than five percent of the U.K.’s entire population, which is roughly 68 million people. Sky News notes that these are the highest numbers the UK has seen since the figures they were looking at in the fall of 2020.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/more-than-5-of-the-entire-united-kingdom-got-covid-last-week/

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More than 5% of entire UK population contracted covid last week: (Original Post) tblue37 Jan 2022 OP

Strictly, it's not "contracted covid last week", it's "would show positive in a test in the week" muriel_volestrangler Jan 2022 #1

muriel_volestrangler

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1. Strictly, it's not "contracted covid last week", it's "would show positive in a test in the week"

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 01:29 PM

Jan 2022

If people give a positive test for a bit longer than a week after contracting it, and that is generally the case, I think, then a bit under that figure actually contracted it during the week.

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