Coronavirus cases in England remain high, according to official figures.
The Office for National Statistics estimates one in 80 people in England have tested positive, in the week up to August 14.
Cases in this region have only decreased slightly from one in 75 last week.
And in the same week up to August 14, cases in Wales have sharply risen from one in 220 last week to one in 230 this week.
England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has urged youngsters to get the jab as he said there are some “very sick” young adults in hospital with the virus.
He tweeted: “The great majority of adults have been vaccinated.
"Four weeks working on a Covid ward makes stark the reality that the majority of our hospitalised Covid patients are unvaccinated and regret delaying.
"Some are very sick including young adults. Please don’t delay your vaccine.”
It comes a week after ONS stats showed levels of Covid-19 across much of the UK remained high.
For two weeks in a row, around one in 75 people in England are estimated to have had covid-19 last week.
In Northern Ireland, positive cases were the highest last week with one in 55 people estimating to have had Covid-19.
Test and Trace figures released yesterday showed covid cases rose by 6% in England last week.
Official data suggests the fall in cases around the start of the school holidays has now gone into reverse, with 190,508 people testing positive between August 5-11.
This latest rise is from the period just before isolation rules were axed. From August 16, children and double-jabbed adults in England have no longer had to isolate in most cases if a close contact tests positive.
