{"id":294934,"date":"2021-01-05T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=294934"},"modified":"2021-01-05T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:05:03","slug":"more-than-a-million-brits-infected-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/more-than-a-million-brits-infected-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than A Million Brits Infected With COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The prime minister recently announced that around 1 million people are currently infected with coronavirus in England.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During his brief at 5pm, the prime minister announced that on average, 1 in 50 people in England are currently infected with Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The virus is spreading rapidly according to the government, especially in London, where the virus is most common.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers of people with coronavirus in private households between 27 December and 2 January, according to the ONS:<\/p>\n<p>London &#8211; around one in 30<\/p>\n<p>\u200bSoutheast England &#8211; around one in 45<\/p>\n<p>\u200bEastern England &#8211; around one in 45<\/p>\n<p>\u200bNorthwest England &#8211; around one in 45<\/p>\n<p>\u200bEast Midlands &#8211; around one in 50<\/p>\n<p>\u200bNortheast England &#8211; around one in 60<\/p>\n<p>\u200bWest Midlands &#8211; around one in 65<\/p>\n<p>\u200bYorkshire and the Humber &#8211; around one in 65<\/p>\n<p>But, despite this troublesome news, brighter days may be ahead, as the new oxford vaccine has started to be rolled out, and around 25% of over 80s in the UK have been vaccinated already, with many more vulnerable vaccinated also.<\/p>\n<p>If things keep going the way they are, the PM says full vaccination of the most vulnerable can be achieved by mid february, meaning restrictions can loosen up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister recently announced that around 1 million people are currently infected with coronavirus in England. During his brief at 5pm, the prime minister announced that on average, 1 in 50 people in England are currently infected with Coronavirus. The virus is spreading rapidly according to the government, especially in London, where the virus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":282792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1802,1810,1871,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-294934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-coronavirus-uk","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294979,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294934\/revisions\/294979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}