Britain Today Recorded The Fewest Daily Covid-19 Cases In Almost Eight Weeks In Yet Another Sign That England s Lockdown Is Working As 11 299 More Positive Tests Were Declared — But Deaths Are At A Six-month High

Britain today recorded the fewest daily Covid-19 cases in almost eight weeks in yet another sign that England's lockdown is working as 11,299 more positive tests were declared — but deaths are at a six-month high. 
Today's infections marked a fall of 43.6 per cent on the 20,051 last Tuesday and Lạc Sơn Đại Phật 27 per cent drop on yesterday's 15,450.
Daily cases are now at their lowest since October 2, when fewer than 7,000 Britons were diagnosed. 
The UK also announced 608 Covid deaths in the last 24 hours, which is the highest daily total since May 12, when the disease claimed 614 victims. However, there are signs fatalities have started to level off as today's death toll is only 1.7 per cent higher than last Tuesday, when there were 598 victims.
Covid deaths lag two to three weeks behind the infections trend due to the time it takes for people to fall seriously ill with the disease.

Experts anticipate deaths will start to tail off next month, after the country's second lockdown has ended. 
The seven-day rolling average number of coronavirus cases — considered a more accurate measurement because it takes into account day-to-day recording fluctuations — is now 18,295, the lowest since October 20.
Daily deaths are averaging 442.
It comes as it was revealed three households will be allowed to form 'Christmas bubbles' over the festive period after politicians across the UK agreed to ease draconian restrictions and give hard-pressed families respite from coronavirus rules.
A four-nation meeting of the Cobra emergency committee this afternoon agreed plans to allow extended families and friends to meet without social distancing within exclusive groups.

The relaxed measures will be in place from December 23 to 27, paving the way for families in England, Wales, Scotland and kynghidongduong.vn Northern Ireland to meet up. 
In other coronavirus developments today:
East Sussex, Herefordshire and Milton Keynes were the local authorities in England that suffered the biggest spikes in coronavirus cases during the most recent week, making them among the most likely to enter Tier Three rules when Boris Johnson announces England's new local lockdowns on Thursday;Number 10 cherry-picked 'spurious' Covid data to justify England's second lockdown and may have intended to frighten the public, Lạc Sơn Đại Phật according to one of Britain's top statisticians Sir David Spiegelhalter;Enough was known about coronavirus in January to act straight away but the response was delayed, a leading scientist and member of SAGE said;People should stay off work with the sniffles even after the Covid pandemic ends to protect their colleagues from getting sick, according to Matt Hancock who said Britons' natural instincts to 'soldier on' and go to the office even when they are unwell 'must change';London's top restaurateurs and hoteliers today warned that placing the capital in Tier 3 would wipe out half the hospitality industry and trigger an 'atomic bomb' of job losses after Christmas;Grant Shapps today urged Britons not to use trains at Christmas as they will be 'too busy' - as UK ministers meet to thrash out a plan to ease coronavirus rules so family reunions can happen;Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 per cent effective and costs less than $10 (£7) per dose, the country's authorities have claimed.

These maps show the changing fortunes across the UK.

At the start of September (left) Covid-19 cases were low across the UK but by November 18 (right) they had leapt in all areas as winter tightens its grip on the UK
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