An average of 351,000 people are contracting the virus each day, according to the latest incidence figures from the ZOE Covid study - an increase of 13 per cent from the beginning of the month. The previous record of 350,000 daily infections was set in late March 2022.
Professor Tim Spector, the lead scientist behind the research, said 1 in 15 people in the UK currently have the virus. He added that cases are still rising across England but flattening in Scotland and Wales.
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