The UK is surging towards 300,000 new Covid cases per day - with one in 21 Brits symptomatic with the deadly virus.
Amid the Covid resurgence, the R-value for the UK is estimated to be around 1.1 as case rates soar - meaning every 10 infected people pass it to 11 people on average.
According to the latest figures from the ZOE Covid Study, there are currently 285,507 new symptomatic cases every day in the UK on average.