Covid infections have risen again but at a much slower rate than in the last three weeks, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown.
Amid widespread speculation that the UK is at the start of a new wave of Covid-19, England and Northern Ireland have seen a rapid increase in coronavirus infections. However the ONS said its latest infection survey suggested that the trend was uncertain in both Scotland and Wales.
The latest hospitalisations figures however show that the number of people in hospital with Covid is rising rapidly in Wales - double the number two weeks ago - although most of those infections are incidental and the patient is being treated for another reason, apart from Covid.
