About 3.2 million are thought to have the virus - a drop of more than half a million on the previous week.
Covid infections are on the way down in the UK, dropping by more than half a million in a week, according to
Many of the recent cases have been caused by fast-spreading sub-variants of Omicron, called BA.4 and BA.5.But vaccines are still doing a good job of helping protect people from getting very sick with the virus.The ONS data is collated by testing thousands of people from UK households - whether or not they have symptoms - to estimate how much virus is around.
"People aged 75 and over remain at particular risk of severe disease if they are not up to date with their vaccinations.
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