Coronavirus infections continue to rise across the UK with roughly one in 17 people now testing positive. In Nottinghamshire the situation varies depending on the area in which you live, with some regions reporting an influx in cases and others a very low number.
In the UK around 3.8 million people have tested positive and this number has been rising since June. Most new cases are now caused by subvariants of the dominant Omicron strain.
And there is a new sub-strain of Omicron which has been named Centaurus. Health experts and virologists across the globe have voiced some concern over the new variant which is more readily being recorded in tests.
