Close to 2,000 more coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the UK in the last 24 hours.
The Department of Health said 1,940 tests have come back positive since the same point yesterday - that's the largest daily rise since May 30 when a total of 2,445 new cases were recorded.
Overall, 342,351 cases have been confirmed in the UK since the pandemic began.
The government also said 41,537 people had died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 - an increase of 10 since yesterday.
Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been 57,300 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
The new figures come as data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that an estimated 27,100 people in private households in England had Covid-19 between August 19 and 25.
This was the equivalent of around 0.05 per cent of the population, or one in 2,000 individuals.
The estimate is broadly unchanged from the previous figures for August 14 to 20, which were 0.05 per cent of the population and one in 1,900 individuals.
The figures do not include people staying in hospitals, care homes or other institutional settings.
The ONS said there was some evidence of regional differences in the percentage of people testing positive for antibodies to Covid-19.
In London, an estimated 11 per cent of people have tested positive for antibodies – the highest for any region in England.
The lowest regional estimate was 3.5 per cent for south-west England.
The estimates, which the ONS has published for the first time, refer to people in private households and are subject to revision.
