Covid infections remain around record levels in most of UK, figures show

ONS data reveals about 1 in 13 people had coronavirus in week ending 2 April - with only Scotland seeing fall

The number of Covid-19 infections remains near or at record levels in most of the UK, with only Scotland seeing a drop, new figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed.

The ONS data for the week ending 2 April, based on swabs collected from randomly selected households, shows that, for the second week running, about 1 in 13 people across the UK are thought to have had Covid - an estimated 4.88m infections.