Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeThe apparent fall in Covid-19 case numbers may be temporary ahead of a return to 'exponential growth', experts have warned. Also the week-on-week percentage increase in cases has fallen from a peak of 43 per cent last Sunday to just 24 per cent today. If you look at the course of the Delta epidemic from early May it was clear that the rate of increase in cases was already slowing by June. But after both events the increase started slowing fairly soon after that despite the fact that the games were continuing. "Also, in Scotland case numbers started to fall about 11 days after they left the championships and case numbers have continued to fall since.

Source: Daily Mirror July 23, 2021 17:18 UTC