Covid-19 Infections Increase In England And Wales

Over the past two months, the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 has increased in England and Wales, official statistics revealed on Friday.

The results are as a result of data for the week ending September 14 from the government’s Office for National Statistics.

Based on this data, the ONS estimated that the number of people testing positive in England was 766,500; amounting to approximately one in 70 people, and in Wales 39,700, or one in 75.

The previous week’s survey found infection rates were one in 75 in England and one in 110 in Wales.

According to the survey, both UK countries last saw a weekly increase in the week ending July 6, fuelled by the new Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants.

On the other hand, figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland decreased.

The results stemmed from a survey in which a random sample of the population is swabbed, regardless of if they have symptoms or not.

Those living in care homes were however not tested.

Afterwards, researchers model these results to estimate how many of the total population is currently infected.