A total of 1,062 people were recorded as testing positive for coronavirus yesterday, the biggest daily rise in six weeks.
It was a dramatic jump from Saturday when 758 positive cases were recorded in the previous 24 hours. The UK has not seen a daily increase this large since June 25, when 1,118 cases were reported.
The number of cases recorded each day has slowly risen from the low 500s at the start of July. The latest results bring the total number of people who have tested positive for the virus to 310,825 across the UK.
Despite the rise in cases, the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen 94 per cent since the peak of the pandemic.
Hospital staff are treating about