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Another 24,701 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK, while 310 have died, according to the latest government data.
This is an increase of 1,816 infections compared to Tuesday’s figures, although the number of deaths fell by 57 compared to the 367 registered on Tuesday, which was the highest daily number since May.
Brings the total number of deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive test to 45,675 – and the total number of COVID-19 cases is now in 942,275.
The latest figures come as Boris Johnson faces mounting pressure to tighten lockdown measures across the country, with infections spike across the country.
Nottinghamshire is expected to join the millions of people already under Level 3 restrictions on Friday, while Nottingham City, Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe will enter this level tonight.
It is currently speculated that West Yorkshire it will also be upgraded to Level 3 at a later date.
Meanwhile, there were 37 coronavirus-related deaths in Wales on Wednesday, the most deaths in a single day seen since April.
Welsh Prime Minister Mark Drakeford said he was “deeply saddened” by the latest death toll, which comes on the fifth day of the country’s 17-day circuit breaker lockdown.
The rising death toll is not so surprising to government advisers, who have warned that the numbers could remain in the triple digits for at least three months.
The increase in deaths is likely to “continue for some time”, Dr. Yvonne Doylethe medical director of Public Health for England said Tuesday.
Professor Andrew Hayward, from the UCL epidemiology institute and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), also said the government was in danger of leaving “too late” to impose a brief national lockdown to control transmission.
He told Sky News that “more intensive action” was needed, and preferably before Christmas.
“The last time we had a lockdown that lasted four months and one of the reasons for that was because we acted too late,” he said.
