The summer wave of Covid infections appears to have peaked already as data shows cases fell for the first time in nearly two months last week.
An estimated 2.6million people (one in 20) had the virus on any given day in England in the seven days to July 20, according to the Office for National Statistics, down 16 per cent on the previous week.
It marks the first time infections have dipped since the fifth wave took off at the
Daily Covid cases in the UK have fallen for a week straight and hospital admissions are plateauing, official data revealed today as an NHS leader admitted the health service is past the worst of the Omicron outbreak.
There were 129,587 new positive tests across the country in the last 24 hours, Government dashboard data shows, which marks a fall of a third compared to the figure last Wednesday.
It is the seventh day in a row that infections have fallen
