The R number is estimated to be between 0.7 and 0.9 – a slight increase from last week’s reading of 0.6-0.9. R represents the average number of people each Covid positive person goes on to infect. This means that, on average, every 10
The R-number is a way of rating coronavirus or any other viral infection’s ability to spread around the population. R is the number of people that one infected person will pass a virus on to next, on average. Scientists cannot capture the