The number of people with Covid-19 in England levelled off at the end of August after a rise in infections.
Around one in 70 people in the community had Covid-19 in the week up to August 27, according a weekly survey by the Office for National Statistics.
It means around 766,100 people were infected with the virus at some point during this period.
The number of infections was level with the week before, when 756,900 people tested positive for Covid.
It had risen from around one in 80 - or 698,100 people - in the week to August 14.
The latest data will offer a glimmer of hope that a rise in infections in England could be petering out.
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But ministers are braced to see whether infections rise again when pupils return to schools.
There was an increase in positive tests in the south west of England and the West Midlands, while rates have fallen in London and the East Midlands.
Yorkshire and the Humber had the highest proportion of positive cases, with around one in 55 people infected.
The East Midlands, eastern England and London had the lowest estimate: around one in 85.
Infection rates have risen in Scotland and Wales but fallen in Northern Ireland.
For Scotland, around one in 75 people had Covid-19 in the week to August 28, up from one in 140 in the previous week and the highest level since estimates began for Scotland in October 2020.
In Wales, around one in 110 people are estimated to have had Covid-19 in the week to August 28, up from one in 120 in the previous week and the highest level since the week to February 6.
In Northern Ireland, the latest estimate is one in 65, down from one in 40 in the previous week.
