The UK has recorded 40,077 new daily cases of Covid-19 on Monday, a 14 percent drop on last week's figures.
There were 40 deaths recorded on Monday, according to Public Health England, a drop on the 117 recorded on the same day last week - but the week-on-week average is still climbing.
Over the last seven days 1,101 deaths have been recorded, a rise of almost 17% on the previous seven days.
Today's infection figures are slightly above yesterday's 38,009 cases, but deaths are lower than the 74 recorded on Sunday.
It comes as newly released figures showed unvaccinated Brits are 32 times more likely to die of Covid than those who have had a jab.
The data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed 34,474 unvaccinated people died from the virus between January and September 24 in England this year.
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But 4,479 people who had received both jabs died after contracting the virus in the same time period - with more than 3,200 of these deaths happening in August and September.
Nearly eight million people have been given a booster jab, data released yesterday shows.
As of Monday, millions of eligible people will be able to get their third dose by just walking into a vaccination centre near their GP.
In a bid to increase the number of people getting their top-up and stem the number of infections, NHS England announced booster jabs would be available at hundreds of walk-in sites across the country.
In order for you to have the third dose, you must have had the second one at least six months ago.
Those currently entitled to a booster jab are: those aged 50 and over; people who live and work in care homes; frontline health and social care workers; people aged 16 and over with a health condition that puts them at high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19; those aged 16 and over who are a main carer for someone at high risk from the virus, and people aged 16 and over who live with someone who is more likely to get infections.
People are advised to use the NHS online walk-in finder to check where their nearest centre is.
Dr Nikki Kanani, GP and deputy lead for the NHS covid-19 vaccination programme said: "NHS staff are making it as easy as possible for people to get their top-up vaccination, and from today people can now go online, find their nearest site and go and get their booster without delay.
"The booster is not just a nice to have, it is really important protection ahead of what we know will be a challenging winter."
Today's official number of daily cases is still far from the ones recorded by the Zoe Covid Study on Saturday, which almost topped 100,000.
The Zoe research, which looked at data based on both PCR and lateral flow tests, found there were an estimated 92,953 daily infections over five days, compared with the 44,702 fresh cases announced by the government the day before.
That is a 14% on the 81,823 new infections recorded by Zoe the week before.
The data suggests one in 56 people in the UK currently have symptomatic Covid.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has previously warned cases may reach 100,000 a day, but despite calls for a contingency plan to be introduced to stem the number of cases, no new restrictions have been announced yet.
Professor Tim Spector, the top scientist on the Zoe Study, said the app’s statistics are consistently higher than official figures because they include self-reported lateral flow tests.
