2.6million people across the UK currently have Covid and there are 224,000 new cases every day, according to the ZOE Health Study which uses testing and symptom data from millions of participating app users. This is up 27 per cent on the 176,000 new daily cases a week earlier, reports The Mirror.
One in 25 people across the country now has Covid, according to the data. Last week’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate has the total infected at just over a million - one in 60 people - but this is now almost three weeks out of date.
Prof Tim Spector, of King’s College London and co-founder of the Covid ZOE app, told the Mirror: “We believe that the ZOE data shows we are in an autumn wave. Covid is currently affecting 4 per cent of the UK population and the trend is going up. If rates continue as they are, we are set to reach the same heights we did in the summer.
