Most people haven't been tested so how can we say that coronavirus has been eradicated?
A number of reports have emerged suggesting that COVID-19 could be"wiped out in London in a matter of weeks".
If the R is 1, one person with the virus would infect, on average, one other person so the rate of people infected would remain around the same. According to the data, London has an R rate of 0.4, which means for every 10 people who become infected with the virus, they pass it on to four other people.
Professor Heymann said before any lockdown measures could be completely relaxed in an area, there needed to be a system to rapidly detect and respond to new clusters as well as a monitoring system.
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