A total of 527 deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending August 6 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The figure is up 30 per cent on the previous week and is the highest total since 719 deaths in the week to March 26.
The figures showed that about one in 20 deaths registered in the week to August 6 (5.2 per cent) mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate.
The news comes after the latest figures on Monday showed UK has recorded 28,438 new daily coronavirus cases.
As the new infection rates remains in the 20,000s, the vaccination rollout in the UK remains to be a success.
More than 47 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine so far.
The professor said the UK could still see “quite substantial transmission going into the autumn and coming up to the winter”.
Prof Ferguson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme case numbers remain “quite high” at about 30,000 a day which he also said was a “slightly sobering situation” going into September.
The former member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) explained we still “have the potential of quite a large wave of infection in September, October” when life returns to normal.
