coronavirus growth rate in the UK could be increasing again, Government scientists today warned. Experts on the SAGE panel said today there are indications that the crucial R rate – which shows the level of infection – is growing.It is deemed safe if the level remains under 1 and in England last week it was reported to be between 0.9 and 1.1.And the growth rate for the whole UK is now between -2% to +1% – which means the number of new infections is somewhere between growing by 1% or shrinking by 2% every day.