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That's the biggest one day fall in infection numbers in the history of the pandemic, both in absolute and relative terms, when looking at the rolling figures. As the regulars will know, one way to look at the data, without being so much disrupted by one off events like a lab breaking down or some other data outage, is to divide the 7 day over the 14 day rolling data. If it's 50% then the data is pretty flat. Today's figure is 38.25%, which is the lowest figure since September 2020, when testing became more reliable and widespread. Even more remarkable was that the two other times when the number was 38% were in late July 2021 (38.54%) and early April 2021 (38.81%) when we were getting to the end of the Delta and Alpha waves - these periods the total number of cases and tests involved a much lower amount of data. Now admittedly there is a some impact from tests results being backlogged in early January which then pushed up the end of the 14 day period. But that apart we can leave this as something suitably sugarcoated, it's good news.