Nearly 650,000 people have tested positive for Covid in the past seven days after a further 95,787 UK cases were confirmed this afternoon.
Tragically the Department of Health said 288 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the government's official death toll to 153,490.
In the past two days, the number of cases had again risen above 100,000 after a significant drop in recorded infections.
