Over 25 per cent of people in the UK are likely to have been infected by the COVID-19 virus already, a new study has shown. The disease has already infected a 'significant' proportion of the country's population, say researchers from Salford Royal Hospital, The University of Manchester and Res Consortium in a new report published this week.
The researchers calculated the number of people infected by one person with the virus within each local authority area. Daily reported cases peaked at the beginning of April 2020 and hospital deaths a week later in England, according to the report.
Government figures show that in Greater Manchester, hospital deaths peaked slightly later, on April 16. By the second half of April, based on analysing data