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...It will provide direct evidence for epidemiologists to calculate reproduction or ‘R’ number that shows how fast the virus is spreading and will influence ministerial decisions on further easing the lockdown...
...The government also issued unchanged estimates of R, the reproduction number of the virus, which remains at 0.7-0.9 for England and the UK as a whole. Nowhere is showing an increase in infections....
...Some entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are optimistic that food and agri-technology can solve some of the ‘R’ problems....
...The government told them they were being given this on the condition they invested in R&D and worker training. They were not to hand it all out to shareholders through dividends and buybacks....
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