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Another 27,301 people tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, down from Thursday’s record, according to government figures.
It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 1,317,496. Meanwhile, another 376 people have died, bringing the UK total to 51,304.
On Thursday, 33,470 people tested positive for COVID-19 in 24 hours, the highest number on record since the pandemic began, according to government figures.
There were also 563 deaths, down from Wednesday’s figure of 595, which was the highest since mid-May.
Although experts have warned that the daily figures could be “misleading”, as the testing capacity has also grown since the first wave of the pandemic.
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The latest weekly coronavirus figures show that most areas in England have seen an increase in case rates over the seven days to November 9.
Hull now has the highest transmission rate in England with 1,931 new cases recorded, the equivalent of 743.3 cases per 100,000 people.
It is higher than 545 cases per 100,000 in the previous seven days, according to the Public Health England date.
However, the coronavirus reproductive number in the UK has dropped slightly to a high of 1.2, government scientists have said, raising hope that the outbreak is slowing down.
the R number is an indicator used to determine how fast coronavirus it is spreading by showing the average number of people each person with the virus infects.
Nationally, the breeding number (R) is now between 1.0 and 1.2, down from between 1.1 and 1.3 last week, according to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
It means that the number of new cases increases between 1 and 3% every day.
But the group cautioned that while the R has dropped in some areas, the case numbers are still “very high.”
