Coronavirus: Disease Control
(asked on 27th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) what R rate for COVID-19 a Tier 3 area has to reach, and (2) for how long, before it is lowered to Tier 2.
This question was answered on 25th February 2021
Decisions on tier allocation did not focus specifically on the ‘R’ rate. These decisions are based on five key indicators; case detection rates in all age groups; case detection rates in the over 60 year olds; the rate at which cases are rising or falling; the positivity rate or the number of positive cases detected as a percentage of tests taken; and pressures on the National Health Service.