Please make sure you come forward for your vaccine if you haven’t already. pic.twitter.com/NJYMg2VGzT On Friday, the UK recorded 36,800 cases logged, which marked a 17 per cent increase over the previous week.
The health officials in the country said that the Delta variant of Covid continued its rise in the UK. Public Health England (PHE) said that the infections continue to be high and rising but there had not been a corresponding rise in the number of hospitalisations with Covid, indicating that the vaccinations were effective against the highly transmissible variant.
Of the 36,800 cases of Delta B1.617.2 variant over the past week, 45 are from the Delta AY.1 sub lineage with the mutation K417N, which is feared to be more vaccine