Covid infections in the UK have continued to rise, the latest weekly Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggest.
Around 2.7m people in the UK had coronavirus in the week ending 29 June, up by 420,000 from the week before.- are driving some of the new infections, according to the ONS.
A Covid vaccination programme has so far reached nine in 10 people aged 12 and over with a first dose.Covid infections were up 18% on the previous week, with an estimated one in every 25 people infected. This is about 4.2% of the population. The biggest rises were in Wales and Northern Ireland, where infections were up by around 40% on the previous week.
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