Lockdown beginning to slow spread of Covid as R rate ‘falls to 0.9’

The national R number is estimated to be at 0.98 with a range of 0.92 to 1.04 (Picture: Metro.co.uk)The number of coronavirus infections is falling across the country and the R rate could be as low as 0.9, a new study shows.The findings from the eighth round of Imperial College London’s React study indicates a drop in numbers last week– suggesting lockdown is starting to have an effect.But the research, which tested more than 167,600 volunteers in England between Janua