An estimated 7% of people in the UK currently have symptomatic COVID, according to the latest figures extrapolated from the ZOE symptom app study.
Latest estimates of symptomatic infections come despite high levels of vaccination - figures released on Tuesday showIn addition, almost all people now have, suggesting they have either previously been infected with COVID-19 or vaccinated.
Estimates from the latest ZOE figures put the UK R-value around 1.1, with regional R values: England 1.1, Wales 1.1 and Scotland, 1.0., although the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron are both more transmissible and increasingly able to evade vaccine-induced antibodies, serious infection rates remain low.
of COVID-19-confirmed patients in England increased for the week ending July 3, 2022, to 14.59 per 100,000 people, intensive care unit and high dependency unit admission rates remained low, at 0.39 per 100,000 people. All figures for admissions and ICU/HDU rates included everyone with a positive COVID-19 test, including those admitted for other reasons.
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