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A further 6,042 laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the UK in the last 24 hour period.
It comes a day after 6,874 were reported, which was the highest single-day figure so far in the pandemic.
As of Saturday, the cases had increased for five consecutive days.
However, the figures are by no means a realistic comparison to the peak in April and May, when Imperial College researchers have suggested there were more than 100,000 new infections daily and far less evidence.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 infections is now 429,277.
Thirty-four more people in the UK have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, the government has said.
Additionally, the number of deaths announced on Friday has been revised from 34 to 35.
The total number of fatalities is 41,971.
Meanwhile, the developers of the new NHS coronavirus tracking app have admitted more than 60,000 tests conducted in England on Friday, just under a third of the total. can’t link to their systems.
The admission seems to undermine the central role of the software, which is to warn people when they have come into contact with someone who subsequently tests positive.
The long-awaited NHS coronavirus contact tracing app launched in England and Wales on Thursday.
However, in response to a tweet from a user who said that it had been tested but could not load the result because he had not received a code, the developers of the application said that it is not linked to the results of the tests processed in a Public Health England laboratory or NHS Hospital.
Seventeen million people, more than a quarter of the UK population, will live under additional coronavirus restrictions when new socialization measures come into force in some parts of the country.
The ban on homes mixing with each other went into effect at midnight in Wigan, Stockport, Blackpool and Leeds.
Residents in those areas are also advised not to encounter people outside their home or bubbles in any other environment, including bars, shops, or parks.
The restrictions are already in place in large parts of the North West, West Yorkshire, the North East and the Midlands, as well as parts of western Scotland.
And the ban on homes to mix indoors was extended to all of Northern Ireland earlier this week.
Cardiff and Swansea will go into local lockdown starting at 6pm on Sunday.
People will not be allowed to enter or leave the areas without a reasonable excuse. They won’t be able to meet inside with anyone they don’t live with, with the extended homes suspended.
