Britain’s new Covid surge continues to grow with cases jumping by a third in a week, with data suggesting as many as one in 18 people have the virus in some parts of the country.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimated nearly 2.3million people in the UK had the virus on any day for the week ending June 24 with analysts linking the rise to the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5.
There were 1.8million Covid infections recorded in England alone in ONS’s latest infection survey, about one in 30 people, a rise of about 38 per cent compared to the previous week.
Scotland recorded the highest Covid levels of the UK nations with 288,200 people estimated to have Covid, about one in 18 of the population.
Cases also continued to rise in Northern Ireland and Wales.
The rise in cases comes just a week after the UK Health Security Agency confirmed the Omicron sub-strains BA.4 and BA.5 are now the dominant strains in the UK.
They are thought to be even more infectious than their…
