Covid cases across the UK have increased by 22 per cent since last week and are at almost 200,000, data from the ZOE study has revealed.
The figures, which are based on both PCR and LFT test data, also estimates that the current R value is at 1.1 for England, Scotland and Wales.
There are currently 195,069 new daily symptomatic coronavirus cases in the UK on average, based on test data from up to three days ago, which is an increase of 22 per cent from 159,486 reported last week.
