Britain’s daily Covid cases breached 50,000 today for the first time in a month and deaths crept up — as scientists warned the super-mutant Botswana variant could already be in the country.
Department of Health figures show there were 50,091 new cases in the UK in the last 24 hours, up 13 per cent on the previous week.
It marks the first time they had topped 50,000 since October 21 and follows a fortnight of growth, driven mostly by children