According to data released on Friday by the UK’s Office for National Statistics, the prevalence of COVID-19 infections increased in England in the week ending September 25 due to an increase in infections among school-aged children.
Schools have been open in England for about a month, and while some epidemiologists are concerned about an increase in cases among children, this has not yet translated into a sustained increase in infections among the general population. epidemiologists.
One in every 25 students tested positive for COVID-19, up from one in every two students the previous week in the same age group. The estimated prevalence among secondary school-age students was 4.58 percent.
In England, it was estimated that one in every 85 people was infected, which was slightly higher than the previous week’s estimate of one in every 90 people but still lower than the one in every 80 estimate from two weeks ago.
According to government data, the estimated Covid-19 reproduction rate may have increased slightly.
The ONS Infection Survey uses sampling to estimate the number of infections in the community beyond those who have volunteered to be tested, so that fluctuations in daily testing figures have no effect on the prevalence estimate.
Children over the age of 12 will be given a COVID-19 vaccine as part of the government’s winter plan to combat the coronavirus. Boris Johnson is the Prime Minister.
Vaccinations for 12- to 15-year-olds, on the other hand, only began last week, lagging behind the United States and some other European countries in England and the rest of the United Kingdom.
Following record highs in late August, the number of reported daily cases in Scotland, which has its own health policy and returned to school in mid-August, has decreased.
