UK's daily Covid cases spike 70% in a week to 27,125 as deaths and hospital admissions tick upwards — but R rate drops for the first time in months and there are still TEN times fewer patients in NHS now than at same time in second wave
Department of Health bosses posted 27,125 infections spotted today, up on 15,810 last Friday
Another 27 deaths were recorded, up 50 per cent from the same time last week when there were 18 registered
And hospitalisations rose by 35 per cent after 304 were recorded on June 28, the latest available
Office for National Statistics swabbing study estimated there were 211,100 Covid cases in England last week
This is the highest number since late February near the end of the second wave when there were 248,100
There were an average 12,000 patients in hospitals in England
Britain's daily Covid cases surged 70 per cent in a week today and hospitalisations ticked upwards, but there are still ten times fewer patients in the NHS now than at the same time during the second wave.

Health chiefs posted another 27,125 infections spotted in the last 24 hours, up on the 15,810 recorded last Friday and marking the fifth day in a row the daily figure has surged above 20,000.

Latest hospitalisations data shows Covid patient numbers have risen 35 per cent in a week after 304 people with the virus were admitted on June 28. But this was still well below the last time cases were this high in late January when there were 2,600 daily admissions.

Another 27 deaths were also recorded today, up 50 per cent on the 18 recorded last Friday although these were still very low numbers compared to this point in the second wave.

It comes as an Office for National Statistics report published today estimated England's Covid outbreak has surged by two-thirds in a week, but cases are still flat among the elderly.

The ONS study — which randomly swabs 100,000 people — estimated there were 211,100 infections in the country in the week to June 26, up 72 per cent on last week and the highest since late February.

And No10's top scientists revealed today England's R rate has dropped for the first time in months. They estimated the reproduction rate — the average number of people each Covid patient infects — was between 1.1 to 1.3 this week, down from 1.2 to 1.4 where it had been stagnant for several weeks.

Boris Johnson faced calls to abandon NHS test and trace today because it will soon see a million people forced to quarantine a day, as restaurants are forced to shut by the app and a fifth of NHS staff are told to remain at home.

SAGE expert Dr Adam Kucharski said the Government needed to find an alternative to long quarantine periods following contact with a positive case or risk sparking a lockdown in all but name.

The infectious diseases expert told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: 'If we get to a situation over the summer where there's 30,000 to 40,000 cases per day, you'll be potentially looking at maybe even over a million contacts per day who may be eligible for quarantine.'

The Prime Minister is doubling down on his new Freedom Day on July 19, as the disparity between rising infection numbers and flatlining deaths and hospitalisations bolstered his comments yesterday that the inoculation drive has 'broken the link'.

It comes after at top scientist said yesterday Covid is now just a 'bad cold' among people who have got the vaccine.

More than 45million Britons — or 85.5 per cent of adults — have received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine after 152,525 jabs were administered yesterday. And 33.2million — or 63.1 per cent — have got both doses.
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