Just one in 55 people had Covid-19 last week, according to the latest official data - but two new Omicron variants are now officially "variants of concern".
The figures come from the latest Office for National Statistics infection survey - suggesting that just over a million people around England will have had Covid in the week to May 13. In the North East, just 1.9% of people tested positive over the week.
However, public health bosses at the UK Health Security Agency have identified two new subvariants of Omicron - BA.4 and BA.5 - and both of these are now "of concern". The UKHSA first detected BA.4 in April - and as of May 17 there had been 115 cases discovered around the UK. More than 100 of those are in England, with most cases in London, South East and West Midlands.
