The UK Health Security Agency says it will halt publishing the figures from early January.
The ONS says infections rose in London, the South West, the North East, the West Midlands and the South East in the week ending 9 DecemberCoronavirus modelling data will stop being published in early January, the UK Health Security Agency says.
Chief data scientist Dr Nick Watkins said this is due to the UK living with Covid-19 because of vaccines and therapeutics.The reproductive rate - known as the R rate - refers to the number of people an infected person will pass the virus onto.Since April this year it has been published fortnightly.Dr Watkins said it served as a useful and simple indicator to inform public health action and government decisions.
"We continue to monitor Covid-19 activity in a similar way to how we monitor a number of other common illnesses and diseases.
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