Britain’s new Covid surge continues to grow with cases jumping by a third in a week, with data suggesting as many as one in 18 people have the virus in some parts of the country.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimated nearly 2.3million people in the UK had the virus on any day for the week ending June 24 with analysts linking the rise to the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5.
There were 1.8million Covid infections recorded in