The Latest Breaking News from UKHSA

Cases jumped by 27 per cent from the previous week when there were 225,464

BA.4 and BA.5 have already triggered a rise in infections in the UK, with experts warning that the country is already in the midst of its fifth coronavirus wave with nearly 300,000 people infected each day

In February, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the public would have to get used to “living with COVID”, and announced the phasing out of all COVID-related restrictions over the following months. For many people, life since then has begun to return to something resembling normal.

‘We expect cases to rise further in the coming days and weeks,’ the UKHSA says

Figures are expected to continue to rise further in the coming days and weeks

The test will help health authorities monitor community transmission of the virus

Tropical disease has now infected over 1,000 people in Britain and been detected in many more countries around the world

Total number of infections continuing to rise across Britain

Tropical disease originating in Africa has spread across the world since May

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can be passed onto humans when they are bitten by an infected tick

With the UK at the start of what scientists are calling the 'pandemic era', there are warnings that the next viral threat could be much worse than anything we have experienced so far