The research, commissioned by the government and run by Imperial College
London, is based on swabs taken from 140,000 people selected to
represent England's population.

Of that group, who were tested for the virus between 11 and 30 March,
227 had a positive result, giving a rate of 0.2%, or one in 500 people.

But in people over the age of 65, the infection rate was half that with
one in 1,000 people testing positive for Covid.

A study found infections had fallen by roughly two-thirds since
February, but have begun to level off.

While the decline in cases has stalled - probably because people are
beginning to mix more - deaths did not follow the same pattern.

This was not the case before January, when the vaccine rollout began.

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