A record 689,313 alerts were sent to users of the NHS Covid-19 app in England and Wales in the week to July 21 telling them they had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive for coronavirus, NHS figures show.
A total of 307,758 people tested positive for Covid-19 in England at least once in the week to July 21, up 18% on the previous week, according to the latest Test and Trace figures.
It is the highest number since the week to January 13.
Some 63.7% of people who were tested for Covid-19 in England in the week ending July 21 at a regional site, local site or mobile testing unit – a so-called “in-person” test – received their result within 24 hours.
This is down slightly from 64.7% in the previous week.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had pledged that, by the end of June 2020, the results of all in-person tests would be back within 24 hours.
He told the House of Commons on June 3 2020 he would get “all tests turned around within 24 hours by the end of June, except for difficulties with postal tests or insuperable problems like that”.
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