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Britain’s daily Covid cases plunged by a third over the weekend as testing dropped to the lowest level in a year in the first official figures since England ditched its free swabbing regime. MailOnline has more.
U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) statistics show another 143,382 positive Covid tests were logged on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, compared to the 215,001 recorded over the same three-day spell last week.
Meanwhile, Covid deaths today fell by 3% week-on-week, while daily hospital admissions increased by 4%. Both measures tend to lag two to three weeks behind the trend in cases.
Today’s drop in daily confirmed cases coincides with plummeting testing rates, sparked by No.10’s decision to axe free tests forever.
The Government’s daily case numbers are solely based on people swabbing themselves and registering the results with the system. Separate Covid-tracking estimates, which show infections have hit pandemic highs and are yet to slow down, are based on tens of thousands of random tests.
Downing Street today insisted the universal free testing programme will not be coming back in England, claiming the £2 billion-a-month lateral flow spending was “simply unsustainable”. Only health and care workers, the elderly and the vulnerable are still eligible for free swabs.
Scotland will end its offer next month while Wales is to stop handing out the swabs this summer.
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