The UK government has decided to stop its daily COVID-19 updates, and from now on the figures will only be updated on the official dashboard twice a week.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced this week that the dashboard will only update coronavirus figures every Monday and Thursday from now on.
The agency wrote on Twitter that the way it is reporting on COVID-19 stats is “changing within the UK.”
“From today, the COVID-19 Dashboard will update UK figures every Monday and Thursday. Vaccine data for Wales will be updated in UK figures every Monday,” it wrote.
The volume of COVID-19 tests has declined because free testing for the general public has come to an end, which came into force on April 1 as part of the Living with COVID-19 plan, the government’s strategy to live with and manage the virus. This has affected COVID-19 statistics.
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