LONDON (Reuters) – Cases of COVID-19 rose 11% in England in the latest week, with the proportion of people testing positive staying steady, the country’s test and trace programme said on Thursday, adding that contacts reached were still near a record low percentage.
There were 167,369 people testing positive between 5 November and 11 November, up 11% on the previous week.
Of the 313,771 people identified as coming into close contact with a positive cases, 60.5% were reached, similar to the record low proportion of 59.6% hit last month.
(Reporting by Alistair Smout, editing by William James)
