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Covering the week ending May 23, the figures also show a slight increase in overall hospital admissions for Covid-19, to 0.79 per 100,000, compared with 0.75 per 100,000 the previous week.
Those aged 10-19 had the highest infection rate, at 55.2 cases per 100,000 people.
Those aged 70-79 had the lowest, at 4.1 per 100,000.
The falling infection trend demonstrates the “value of immunisation in reducing cases in the older more highly immunised age groups”, according to University of East Anglia Professor Paul Hunter.
He told The Times that, while it is still too early to say the falling ages of infection would continue, signs are promising.
He added: “If case numbers in the older age groups remain low then hospitalisations will remain low and hopefully we should be able to manage the third wave of infection without too much pressure on the NHS and without reimposition of lockdown.”
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