COVID-19 in the UK: the remarkable divergence between number of 'cases' and number of people reporting symptoms

Dec 26, 2020

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6 Jan 2020: There is an important update to this article here

On 23 December over half a million people (507,384) - the highest daily total yet - had a COVID-19 test in the UK (see https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk). That was an increase of 39.2% over the total tested (364,388) just one week earlier on 16 Dec.

Yet, during exactly the same period there was…

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