# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2022 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [January 1, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022 "2022-01-01T05:02:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 558
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/558 "2022-04-14T16:43:59Z")
Looks like the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) is reporting a day early this week because of the Easter Holidays. Here’s the BBC update - about one person in 15 has the virus this week.: > **[Covid levels starting to fall in UK, says ONS](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61106918)** > > About one in 15 people would test positive for coronavirus, as levels start to fall. > About 4.4 million people had the virus in their body in the week up to 9 April, down from nearly 4.9 million the week before… > > …The study, which uses its own testing, gives the clearest indication of the virus’s spread since free testing ended in England. > > It tests thousands of people at random - whether or not they have symptoms - to estimate how much virus there is in the country. The article has a handy graphical summary of test results going back to October 21. This was the kicking-off point for some musings, which may lead to some non-breaking news posts; so I have expanded on these facts in a post in the General Discussion And Chit-Chat thread: > [@Coronavirus general discussion and chit-chat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-general-discussion-and-chit-chat/917903/1486): > > Looks like the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) is reporting a day early this week because of the Easter Holidays. Here’s the BBC update - about one person in 15 has the virus this week: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61106918](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61106918) About 4.4 million people had the virus in their body in the week up to 9 April, down from nearly 4.9 million the week before… …The study, which uses its own testing, gives the clearest indication of the virus’s spread since free testing ended in England. It … j --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022)._