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Covid infection levels in England have risen by 17% on last week, with around 1 in 91 people in England now infected with Covid as of 13 October. The risk of meeting an infected person in your everyday life remains Very High.

Covid infection levels in England remain Very High, with around 1 in 106 people in England infected with Covid (as of 6 October). Now is the time to get vaccinated and take precautions against catching Covid, because there is a significant risk of meeting an infected person in your everyday life.

WARNING: Covid infection levels in England are climbing very fast. Already, around 1 in 108 people in England are infected with Covid (as of 29 September). The risk of meeting a Covid-infected person in your everyday life is still Very High, but rapidly approaching Extremely High. If you don’t want to catch Covid, now is the time to be taking precautions.

As predicted, Covid infection levels in England are rising fast, up 14% in the last week of data. The Autumn Wave of Covid is building rapidly. Around 1 in 156 people in England were infected with Covid as of 15 September, and the risk of meeting a Covid-infected person in your everyday life is Very High.

The Autumn Wave of Covid has started in England, and we have raised our Covid risk level to VERY HIGH. Around 1 in 179 people in England were infected with Covid as of 8 September. We expect the risk of meeting a Covid-infected person in your everyday life to continue to rise as we move through September.

Covid infection levels remain MODERATELY HIGH, but there are early signs that the Autumn Wave is building. Currently, around 1 in 196 people in England were infected with Covid as of 1 September. We expect the risk of meeting a Covid-infected person in your everyday life to start rising again as we move through September.

Covid infection levels have fallen to MODERATELY HIGH. We are in the trough between waves – the Summer Waves are over, but the Autumn Wave is building. Currently, around 1 in 196 people in England were infected with Covid as of 25 August, meaning that there is a moderately high risk of meeting an infected person in your everyday life.

Current Covid infection levels remain HIGH, with at least 1 in 165 people in England infected with Covid as of 18 August. Although all the talk now is about the ‘Late Summer Wave’ of Covid being ‘over’, there is still a lot of Covid circulating and the risk of meeting a Covid-infected person in your everyday life still remains HIGH.

Current Covid infection levels remain HIGH, with at least 1 in 129 people in England infected with Covid as of 11 August. Although the ‘Late Summer Wave’ of Covid is now significantly smaller, the risk of meeting a Covid-infected person in your everyday life remains HIGH.

Current Covid infection levels remain VERY HIGH, with at least 1 in 102 people in England infected with Covid as of 4 August. However, all the available data suggests the ‘Late Summer Wave’ of Covid is beginning to decline. See below for more on how we calculated this.