UK reports most COVID-19 cases since July over past seven days

LONDON: Britain reported the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in just over a month during the past seven days, reflecting the continued spread of the Delta variant of the disease, government figures showed on Friday.

Britain recorded a further 38,046 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, down slightly from Thursday's 38,281 but taking the total number of new infections in the past seven days to 239,237, the most for any seven-day period since July 20-26. The number of cases over the past week was 9.1% higher than the week before, while deaths rose by a similar amount.