The UK's coronavirus R rate could be as low as 0.6 as infections decline.
The reproduction number in the country is between 0.6 and 0.8 - down from 0.7 to 0.9 last week.
The latest figure means on average every 10 people with Covid will infect between six and eight others.
The north-east and Yorkshire has the highest R rate in the country, with the number ranging from 0.7 to 0.9.
However, in the south-west it is between 0.5 and 0.8.
It comes after the UK recorded its lowest increase in Covid deaths in five months earlier this week.
The daily number of UK fatalities rose by 65 on Monday as almost a third of Brits received their first dose of the vaccine.
Yesterday fatalities went up by 190, which was 40% lower than the week before.
A month ago, on Wednesday, February 10, 1,001 people lost their lives to Covid-19.
Statistics also show that the UK has registered 5,926 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
That is a steady drop from the 6,385 new cases reported last Wednesday.
Figures from the Government dashboard showed that 231 people died yesterday.
The latest statistics come as it emerges that the Kent variant could be twice as deadly as previous forms of coronavirus.
The findings in the British Medical Journal based on analysis of 110,000 Covid-19 patients suggests the UK will have to live with high death rates for some time.
Epidemiologists from the universities of Exeter and Bristol identified 227 deaths in a sample of 55,000 NHS patients with the Kent variant.
This compared to 141 deaths in a similar sample of patients with older variants.
