In the last month, Covid-19 rates have plummeted - but when April began the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron was rampant in our communities.
April 1 marked the first day without free mass testing for the virus, but the data shows how even with that caveat the virus has begun to subside in recent weeks. Hospitals - full and struggling at the beginning of the month and over the Easter weekend - are now seeing the number of positive cases on their wards fall too.
And though many people have been positive for Covid without being able to confirm this with a test, the latest estimates from the ONS and the ZOE Covid symptom study also show falls in cases.
