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Professor Paul Elliott, director of the React study - the largest research of its kind in England - said the most recent data suggests the rate of infection in the UK is slowing, although the country remains at "a very critical period". He told Mishal Husain: "We've seen the doubling time - from the last time we did the survey to now - has reduced to about 10 days... from seven to eight days, so that has been slowing. "In the very recent data, it does seem to be that increases seem to be turning down, but from high levels of the virus." He added: "We really need to get the virus turning down and the R value going below one, and we haven't yet seen that." Nick Robinson spoke to Jeremy Hunt, chair of the Health and Social Care committee, who called for weekly testing of all NHS staff to keep the health service running.

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