{"id":39652,"date":"2020-11-15T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=39652"},"modified":"2020-11-15T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T11:21:40","slug":"covid-19-the-rate-of-growth-of-the-virus-is-slowing-alongside-declines-in-teenagers-and-younger-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/covid-19-the-rate-of-growth-of-the-virus-is-slowing-alongside-declines-in-teenagers-and-younger-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"The rate of growth of the virus is declining among teenagers and young adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The &#8216;rate of growth&#8217; of the virus appears to be slowing down, according to National Statistician Sir Ian Diamond.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing a slowdown in the rate of growth (of the virus),&#8221; Sir Ian tells Sophy Ridge on Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>There are reductions in infections in &#8220;teenagers and younger adults&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But he says the R number remains above one.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Ian Diamond&#8217;s comments come after the latest government figures show a further 462 coronavirus deaths and 26,860 new cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RidgeOnSunday\/status\/1327893309356957696\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RidgeOnSunday\/status\/1327893309356957696<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words by: Leah Nelson | Subbing: Grace Staley<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;rate of growth&#8217; of the virus appears to be slowing down, according to National Statistician Sir Ian Diamond.\u00a0 &#8220;We are seeing a slowdown in the rate of growth (of the virus),&#8221; Sir Ian tells&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":39657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,93,128,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-news","category-top-story","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}