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Covid cases ‘up almost a third in week after Christmas’ – BBC News
Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.
By Rachel SchraerHealth reporter
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Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.
In a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.
Daily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.
That would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.
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