The new figures come a day after the ONS said the number of others living with prolonged covid had also increased.
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Covid in the UK has risen by 25% in a week amid fears that a new wave of the disease is already taking place.
Some 1. 3 million more people tested positive for the disease in the week ending Sept. 26, according to the most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, up from 1. 1 million the week before.
Infections have risen in England and Northern Ireland, but the trend is in Scotland and Wales, the ONS added.
This comes a day after separate figures released by the ONS indicated that 2. 3 million more people in the UK were living with prolonged covid, an increase of 300,000 cases over the previous reporting period.
Hospitalizations for Covid-19 are also on the rise. The number of other people admitted rose 37 percent last week, according to government figures.
A total of another 9,631 people with coronavirus were hospitalized as of 8 a. m. Wednesday, according to NHS England, the figure from August 3.
According to the NHS, most people with long-term Covid within days or weeks and regularly completely within 12 weeks.
For some, however, the symptoms would possibly last longer.
Extreme fatigue or tiredness, shortness of breath, loss of smell and muscle aches are among the maximum reported symptoms.
Pressures are emerging on the NHS ahead of winter
Of people with self-reported long-term covid, 253,000 (13 percent) reported having (or suspected having) the virus for the first time less than 12 weeks earlier, 1. 7 million other people (83 percent) at least 12 weeks earlier, 892,000 (45 consistent with penny) at least a year earlier, and 429,000 (22 consistent with penny) at least two years earlier.
As a proportion of the UK population, the prevalence of self-reported prolonged Covid is highest among other people aged 35-69, women, other people living in more deprived areas, those working in social services, people aged 16 and over who were not running and not looking for work, and those with some other physical condition or disability that restricts their activities, the ONS said.
Covid cases have been relatively low in the summer months, but are starting to rise again.
According to the most recent official figures available, they have more than 14%.
This will be the first since the UK abandoned pandemic rules.
Some 1. 1 million other people in private families tested positive for coronavirus in the latest ONS survey, which covers the seven days to September 17 in England and the week to September 20 in the other three countries.
Experts have warned that the country may be heading for a “devastating” wave of the virus this fall, exacerbated by a drop in testing and insufficient follow-up of new evasive immunovariants.
Professor Tim Spector, co-founder of the Covid app ZOE, told The Independent that the UK is already at the start of the next wave of coronavirus.
“It looks like we’re at the beginning of the next wave and this time it hit other older people a little earlier than the last wave,” Professor Spector said.
He added: “Many other people are still employing government rules about symptoms that are incorrect. Right now, covid starts in two-thirds of other people with a sore throat. Fever and loss of smell are rare now, so many other older people possibly would. “I don’t think they have Covid.
“They would say it’s bloodless and it wouldn’t be proven. “
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