Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA glimmer of hope has emerged in new data suggesting Britain’s latest Covid wave may have peaked. On the same day last week there were 48,553 new cases - which was the highest daily rise in six months. Daily UK deaths within 28 days of a positive test were 84 on Wednesday, up from 49 a week earlier. It came on the day separate data from King’s College London’s ZOE Covid symptom tracker app estimated that the UK R value is 1.1. While Covid is less severe in the young and vaccinated population, it’s not definitely not going away anytime soon.

Source: Daily Mirror July 22, 2021 17:25 UTC