Coronavirus cases are continuing to surge with 43,423 infections recorded in the past 24 hours.
The cases announced today show a further 148 infected people have died during the same time period.
That indicates 833 fatal victims of Coronavirus in the past 7 days - a 5.4 per cent increase from the week before.
Cases recorded today were a slight drop on the 44,932 infections recorded yesterday.
But since last week cases have risen by 24 per cent when 34,950 cases were recorded last Saturday.
There were 44,932 fresh cases announced on Friday while official figures show that a further 145 people have died in the UK over the past 28 days from Covid.
The total number of cases of Covid now stands at 8,404,469, with deaths reaching the grim total of 138,527.
According to the latest vaccination data, there have been another 71,480 jabs across the UK - meaning over 49.3million people have had their first dose.
This is represented as 85.8 per cent of the population aged over 12 years old having been jabbed.
More than 45.2 million (78.8% of the population aged 12 and over) have had at least two doses.
The latest daily number of infections is a rise on the 44,932 new cases recorded yesterday.
On Thursday, 45,066 new cases were reported - the highest in three months.
Figures from yesterday indicated one in 60 people had Covid in England over the past week.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated data has revealed that the overall surge in cases means that one in 60 people in the England have had Covid over the past week, compared to one in 45 in Wales, one in 80 in Scotland and one in 120 in Northern Ireland.
In early January during the peak of the second wave there were around one in 50 people on average who had the virus over a week period.
The ONS said: "Data from the Coronavirus Infection Survey shows one million people across the UK had COVID-19 in the latest week, as infections rose across England and Wales, but fell in Scotland."
Professor Tim Spector, lead scientist on the ZOE COVID Study app, comments on the latest data: " The UK seems to be slowly waking up to the fact that COVID cases are too high, but the reality is they’ve been soaring for months and many countries have put us on their red list.
"Infections remain high in young people, and look to be spilling over into the 35-55 year olds. If these increases creep into the over 55s it could spell disaster for the NHS this winter."
On Friday, Ipswich reported the highest rise in Covid cases in England with a jump of 46 per cent in the week to October 10 to 749.4 cases per 100,000 people - which is the fourth highest rate for a district.
That compared to a rate of 514.0 cases per 100,000 in the week to October 3.
Covid has returned to January levels with one million infections - and two groups are being hit worst.
Infections increased the most within school years 7-11 and the over 50s, according to Office of National Statistics.
Figures also found around one in 60 people in private households in England had Covid-19 in the week to October 9, up from one in 70 the previous week.
One in 60 is the equivalent of about 890,000 people.
At the peak of the second wave in early January, around one in 50 were estimated to have coronavirus.
Infection levels were also found to have increased in all regions across England except the North East, East Midlands and London.
It comes as the ZOE CoVID research suggests the third wave of coronavirus has now reached its peak.
Further research found in the double vaccinated population, there are an estimated 18,817 new daily symptomatic cases in the UK.
The UK R value is also estimated to be around 1.0 and regional R values in England are 1.0, Wales, 1.0 and Scotland, 0.9.
Professor Tim Spector, lead scientist on the ZOE COVID Study app, comments on the latest data: " The UK seems to be slowly waking up to the fact that COVID cases are too high, but the reality is they’ve been soaring for months and many countries have put us on their red list.
