Gross sales of Covid exams have elevated by a 3rd this month, whereas official estimates of the variety of individuals with the virus have additionally risen.
The UK Well being Safety Company (UKHSA) mentioned its surveillance confirmed a slight enhance in circumstances and hospital admissions, together with these in intensive care, as of July 20.
Its information present 3.7 per cent of 4,403 respiratory specimens have been recognized as Covid-19 in contrast with 3.6 per cent of 4,535 two weeks prior.
Boots additionally mentioned its gross sales of exams had elevated by 33 per cent between July 16 and 22 in contrast with the earlier three weeks.
The Zoe Well being Research, which takes its knowledge from individuals self-reporting, estimates there have been 606,602 individuals with symptomatic Covid on July 4 and that this has since risen to 789,695 on July 28.
That is nonetheless effectively beneath the 1,678,854 peak of December 30 and the two,993,830 peak on July 18 final 12 months.
Dr Jamie Lopez Bernal, marketing consultant epidemiologist for immunisation on the UKHSA, mentioned: “Covid-19 circumstances and hospital admission charges stay at low ranges, although have risen very barely prior to now two weeks. We are going to proceed to observe these charges intently.
“The NHS will keep in touch in autumn 2023 when the seasonal vaccine is obtainable for many who are eligible resulting from well being circumstances or age.
“Do not forget that the virus may cause severe sickness, particularly for many who are older or immunosuppressed, so we urge everybody who is obtainable to take up the vaccine when provided.”
Practically 5 million individuals use Zoe’s app to report Covid signs and check outcomes, the corporate says, and of those, it estimates there are 59,357 each day new circumstances with the best proportion in Wales and Cornwall.
Professor Lawrence Younger, a virologist on the College of Warwick, advised the Occasions newspaper that the newest rise could also be a results of waning immunity and the cooler, wetter climate pushing extra individuals