The number of people with Covid-19 in England has fallen to around 5,600 new infections a day from around 8,000 reported last week, figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data on how many people at any one time are infected with Covid-19 based on swab results from households across the country.
It said “modelling of the trend over time shows evidence that the number of people in England testing positive has decreased in recent weeks”.
There were an estimated 39,000 new Covid-19 infections per week in England between April 26 and May 30, equating to an incidence rate per week of 0.07 new cases per 100 people.
This means fewer than one in every 1,000 people had Covid-19.
Just over a week ago, on May 28, the ONS estimated there were around 54,000 new coronavirus infections per week in England, or around 8,000 a day.
This suggests a drop of around a third between the two datasets.
The estimates are based on swab tests of 19,000 people in 9,000 households.
